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Lula's campaign team, Brazil's outgoing president and candidate for re-election, on Saturday accused Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, of "interference" by blocking its content. The Supreme Electoral Court gave Meta 48 hours – which says "respect electoral rules" – to answer these accusations.
Christa Pike, the convict who survived her execution last week in the United States, left the hospital and returned to prison, announced her lawyers on Saturday.
The last straight line of the midterm campaign has begun! Strategy, candidates, polls... Every week, France 24 takes stock of what to remember. The democratic advance is being confirmed and expanded to include some unexpected Republican lands so far, such as Kansas. Thursday evening, the contenders of three key races exchanged personal attacks during television debates.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 hit Panama on Friday, causing the collapse of buildings and roads, mainly in the centre of the country. The authorities report at least 27 injuries, according to the latest public report.
Hurricane Isaias quickly weakened by touching land on Friday night in the state of Florida, reported the American Hurricane Centre (NHC). The hurricane was downgraded to Category 1, but the NHC warned against the risk of storm surges, floods and sudden floods.
Donald Trump announced on Friday that Vladimir Putin has committed to supply millions of tons of diesel "for the American and global market", over several months. The US President hopes to stem the rise in fuel prices in the run-up to the mid-term elections, but creates a breach in Western sanctions imposed on Russia since the beginning of Ukraine's large-scale invasion.
The US Defense Minister, Pete Hegseth, announced on Friday that he would broadcast live the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the author of the shooting on the military base in Fort Hood in 2009. A decision criticized on all sides in the United States, even among the Republicans, but consistent with Donald Trump's political strategy. The question remains of its legality.
The US government announced on Friday sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC), a few hours after the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to former South African judge Navi Pillay, rewarded in particular for his work in that institution. In response, the ICC denounced an "attack against the rule of law and the very foundations of the international legal order".
A man was shot and wounded on Thursday by a Federal Immigration Police (ICE) officer while in his car with a five-year-old child sitting in the back during an operation in the Bronx in New York.
The US courts added charges of "compulsory acts of torture" to the prosecution of drug trafficking against former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, who had been detained in New York since their capture in January. The couple's trial is scheduled for June 1, 2027.
At the top of the first round of the presidential elections in Brazil with 47% of the vote against 45% for Lula, Flavio Bolsonaro received support from three former rivals, Augusto Cury, Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, who together weigh more than 5% of the vote. The second round will take place on 25 October.
A former magistrate of the Supreme Court of Venezuela said on Thursday that she had been forced to sign the document declaring the opponent Maria Corina Machado ineligible in the presidential election of 2024. The party of the latter calls for an urgent investigation and the "immediate" lifting of its ineligibility.
Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the shooting at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, is due to be killed by firing squad on 3 December. A Pentagon official said on Thursday night that the execution would be broadcast live, while Defence Minister Pete Hegseth assured earlier that it would be public.
Less than a month before the mid-term elections in the United States, several democratic candidates have multiplied the campaign videos suggesting links between their Republican rivals and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. A pan that never ends haunting President Trump's camp as the election approaches.
The National Committee of the Democratic Party (DNC) filed a complaint on Wednesday against US President Donald Trump. It accuses her of " flagrant violation" of the ban on the appropriation of public funds for advertisements to her glory, especially during an election period.
With stickers proclaiming, for example, "No to the father, no to the son", thousands of Brazilians took part on Wednesday in the demonstration convened in Rio de Janeiro by student organizations. They call for a halt to Conservative Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, who came in the lead in the first round against outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Faced with the violence of criminal gangs throughout the territory, Haiti's electoral authorities announced Tuesday reporter sine die the presidential and legislative elections that should have taken place in December.
Nearly a week after surviving two lethal injections into Tennessee, the condemned to death Christa Pike "has regained consciousness and can speak", her lawyers announced Tuesday. However, they were not allowed to visit him at the hospital.
The Parti québécois de Paul St-Pierre Plamondon won the Quebec elections on Monday night, with about 28% of the vote but without an absolute majority, complicating the implementation of its program. The new Prime Minister of this Canadian province said he would wait until Donald Trump's term of office ended to hold a referendum on independence.
US President Donald Trump, whose popularity rating suffers from pump prices, signed a decree on Monday to allow all Americans to buy "tax-free red diesel". The text is in fact limited to deferring the payment of the tax on this diesel oil normally reserved for agricultural machinery.
