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Portugal set for centre-right minority government The President of Portugal has extended an invitation to centre-right politician Luís Montenegro to…

The Brazilian government has announced the recovery of numerous furniture pieces that were previously reported missing from the official presidential residence when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva assumed office in January of the previous year.

Angela Chao, a prominent figure in the shipping industry, tragically lost her life last month during an incident at a Texas ranch, according to authorities.

In Haiti, police have fatally shot at least three individuals while stopping an assault on the nation’s central bank. An employee informed AFP that a “group of criminals” targeted the Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH) on Monday, resulting in up to four casualties and one guard being wounded.

In France’s largest cyberbullying case yet, 28 people have been sent to jail for up to 18 months for harassing an influencer. The judges found them guilty of harassing Magali Berdah, prompted by a campaign led by the French rapper Booba against “thieving influencers.”

A federal appeals court has frozen the enforcement of Texas’s contentious immigration law, which is among the strictest of its kind enacted by a US state in recent history.

A South Korean-flagged tanker, the Keoyoung Sun, has capsized off the west coast of Japan, leading to the rescue of at least eight sailors, while three remain missing.

Scientists say they have, using Crispr gene-editing technology, been able to eliminate HIV from infected cells. The Nobel Prize-winning technology works like scissors, but at the molecular level, cutting DNA so “bad” bits can be removed or inactivated. 

In a recent talk with the BBC, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Gaza’s two million people are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity.” 

In Santiago, Cuba’s second-largest city, hundreds of people staged a rare public demonstration on Sunday to protest continued power outages and food shortages.