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☆ Brazil's top court set to rule in favor of Amazon Fund revival
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BRASILIA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court is set to demand that the government reactivate a billion-dollar international fund aimed at protecting the Amazon rainforest as the nation faces rampant deforestation, according to a court statement on Thursday. A majority of the top court's justices decided that the government must take steps within 60 days to reactivate the Amazon Fund, frozen in 2019 when the President Jair Bolsonaro's administration decided to change its governance structure. Norway paid $1.2 billion into the fund between 2008 and 2018, resources that were intended to finance sustainability projects and help reduce deforestation in the world's largest rainforest. The fund was frozen after Bolsonaro took office in 2019 and weakened environmental protection measures in the Amazon, arguing that commercial farming and mining were needed in the region to reduce poverty. Reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello; Editing by Kenneth MaxwellOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Brazil's Bolsonaro to appeal to top court ahead of Sunday's election runoff
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Anthony Boadle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

This further raised concerns about disruptions before or after Sunday's vote pitting Bolsonaro against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In its ruling on Wednesday, the TSE asked Brazil's top public prosecutor to investigate the possible intention of the Bolsonaro camp to disrupt the election in its final days. Now he has claimed fraud involving campaign radio spots, adding to expectations that he will contest the result if he loses to Lula. Neither the Defense Ministry nor the Army replied to a request for confirmation that the military commanders met with Bolsonaro on Wednesday night. O Globo newspaper reported two weeks ago that Bolsonaro had ordered the military not to publish that finding.

☆ 'What are they hiding?': Group sues Biden and National Archives over JFK assassination records
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

The country's largest online source of JFK assassination records is suing President Joe Biden and the National Archives to force the federal government to release all remaining documents related to the most mysterious murder of a U.S. president nearly 60 years ago. “This is about our history and our right to know it,” said Morley, the author of the JFK Facts blog. The National Archives and Records Administration, the agency in charge of the JFK documents, also said it’s complying with the law and the procedures Biden outlined. JFK assassination historian David Talbot, a Trump critic, said he sees an irony in the two cases. Uscinski said he’s hesitant to draw a direct line between lack of trust in the government and the refusal to release the JFK records, but he argued the feds essentially have themselves to blame.

☆ Partner at Accounting Firm Fined for Allegedly Misleading Investigators
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Mark Maurer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

A partner at accounting firm Spielman Koenigsberg & Parker LLP was fined $150,000 for allegedly misleading investigators, the largest monetary penalty imposed on an individual in a case settled by the U.S. auditing watchdog. The regulator also permanently barred Mr. Taylor from associating with a PCAOB-registered accounting firm. Mr. Taylor became a partner at the firm in 1999, according to the firm’s website. Neither Mr. Taylor nor the firm immediately responded to a request for comment. “The quality control systems at audit firms are fundamental to audit quality and regulatory compliance,” Mark Adler, the acting director of the PCAOB’s division of enforcement and investigations, said in a statement.

☆ Row over Mussolini photo as Italy's Meloni readies for power
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Leader of Brothers of Italy party Giorgia Meloni attends the fourth voting session to elect the new speaker, at the lower house of parliament, in Rome, Italy, October 14, 2022. The Mussolini portrait will be taken down "to avoid polemics and manipulations," the industry ministry said in a statement. The statement noted that another picture of Mussolini hangs in Palazzo Chigi, the prime minister's office, along with portraits of other Italian heads of government. Earlier, former centre-left leader and industry minister Pier Luigi Bersani chafed at being hung alongside Italy's late dictator. The public sector chapter of the CGIL, Italy's largest trade union, was also outraged, condemning the "deplorable" display and calling for its immediate removal.

☆ Tourists in Italy are behaving badly this year: Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

With Europe seeing an explosion of visitors a year after Covid travel restrictions dropped, incidents of visitors behaving badly in Italy show no sign of abating. Think that’s bad? Meanwhile in Venice, tourists routinely swim in the UNESCO-protected canals, which double as the city’s sewer system. “Tourists don’t know how to relate to the artistic heritage because they have no relation with our history – so they refer to their cultural imagination, and therefore to our cinema. “So many tourists have said to me over the years, ‘In Italy there are no rules.’ But they are mistaken.

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☆ Brazil's Lula says U.S. will quickly recognize election result
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BRASILIA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Brazil's leading presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday he has been informed by the United States that the country plans to recognize the result of Brazil's Oct. 2 election on the first day after the vote. "The United States is worried, they want to recognize the result on the very first day," Lula said at a campaign event, without giving further details. Last week, sources told Reuters that U.S. diplomats had assured Lula they would swiftly recognize the winner of the vote, seeking to avert any attempt to contest a legitimate result. read moreLula is polling ahead of incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right populist who has claimed that polls are skewed, the courts favor Lula and that Brazil's electronic voting is rife with fraud, without providing proof. Critics fear Bolsonaro may follow the example of former U.S. President Donald Trump and refuse to accept an electoral defeat.

☆ Meet 'SNL's' newest cast members
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Sandra Gonzalez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

(CNN) "Saturday Night Live" has added four new faces. Joining the cast as featured players in Season 48 are: Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker. Hernandez is a Cuban/Dominican stand up comedian, writer, and actor who has opened for comedians like Jim Breuer and Gilbert Gottfried, according to his official website. Kearney, who uses they/them pronouns, recently had a part in Amazon Prime Video's "A League of Their Own" TV series, according to IMDB. Longfellow, who hails from Phoenix, was recently featured in the "Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival," as a notable up-and-comer.

Dosarul beatificării lui Robert Schuman a fost lansat în urmă cu peste 30 de ani de dioceza din Metz, unde a fost înmormântat fostul politician născut în Luxemburg în 1886 şi decedat în 1963. „Nu mai este vorba despre cuvinte goale, ci despre un act, un act îndrăzneţ, un act constructiv", a subliniat Robert Schuman, pe atunci ministrul de Externe al Franţei. CECA a fost parafat printr-un tratat semnat în 1951 de Germania, Franţa, Italia, Belgia, Luxemburg şi Ţările de Jos. Robert Schuman a fost ales după Primul Război Mondial deputat de Moselle şi a devenit în martie 1940 subsecretar de stat pentru Refugiaţi. Marele cancelar al regelui englez Henric al VIII-lea, Thomas More (1478-1535), care s-a opus divorţului regelui şi a fost apoi decapitat, a fost proclamat sfânt în 1935.

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☆ (video) Documentarele românești „Acasă” și „colectiv” au fost nominalizate la premiile Academiei de Film Europene 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-11 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

(video) Documentarele românești „Acasă” și „colectiv” au fost nominalizate la premiile Academiei de Film Europene 2020Documentarele româneşti „Acasă”, în regia lui Radu Ciorniciuc, şi „colectiv”, regizat de Alexander Nanau, au fost nominalizate la cea de-a 33-a ediţie a premiilor Academiei de Film Europene (EFA Awards). La categoria „cea mai bună actriţă europeană” au fost selectate interpretele Paula Beer („Undine”), Natasha Berezhnaya („DAU. Natasha”), Andrea Braein Hovig („Hope”), Ane Dahl Torp („Charter”), Nina Hoss („My Little Sister”) şi Marta Nieto („Mother”). Câştigătorii vor fi desemnaţi prin votul celor 3 800 de membri ai Academiei de Film Europene. În 2019, lungmetrajul „The Favorite”, regizat de Yorgos Lanthimos, a fost desemnat cel mai bun film european în cadrul unei gale organizate la Berlin.

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