Brazil’s Chief Raoni backs Lula in elections

Brazil’s Chief Raoni backs Lula in elections

Brazil’s renowned Amazonian tribal chief Raoni Metuktire told AFP on Wednesday he supported the reelection bid of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in October polls, despite criticizing him for expanding oil exploration. Now in his nineties, the Indigenous leader who has spent decades rallying the world to protect the rainforest has forged close ties…

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Plane Passenger Had to Be Removed by Ambulift After ‘Alarming’ Behavior Forced Pilot to Abort Landing

Plane Passenger Had to Be Removed by Ambulift After ‘Alarming’ Behavior Forced Pilot to Abort Landing

NEED TO KNOW Stephen Blofield, 61, was sentenced to 10 months in prison for aggressive behavior and being intoxicated on a Ryanair flight in November His actions, including refusing to sit and being verbally abusive, forced the pilot to abort the landing Authorities said Blofield’s intoxication posed a safety risk and he was removed from…

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IDF struck Iran’s largest petrochemical plant, second facility hit in two days, Katz confirms

IDF struck Iran’s largest petrochemical plant, second facility hit in two days, Katz confirms

The facility is no longer functioning, Katz stated, indicating that IDF strikes on two of Iran’s petrochemical facilities responsible for 85% of exports had “taken them out of use.” The IDF struck the South Pars petrochemical facility near Asaluyeh in southern Iran, the largest such facility in Iran, Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed on Monday…

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Five EU states press for windfall taxes on fossil energy sector

Five EU states press for windfall taxes on fossil energy sector

Wopke Hoekstra, Commissioner for Climate Action, Net Zero Emissions and Clean Growth of the European Union, gives a press conference at the end of the 16th Petersberg Climate Dialogue. Kay Nietfeld/dpa Finance and economy ministers from Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain are pressing for the European Commission to impose windfall taxes on energy companies…

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Man threatens attack on German high-speed train, injures several

Man threatens attack on German high-speed train, injures several

A man threatened an attack on a German high-speed train in western Germany and lightly injured several people before he was detained in the town of Siegburg near Bonn, police said late Thursday. So-called airsoft firecrackers exploded on an Intercity Express (ICE) train travelling from Cologne to Frankfurt, a police spokeswoman told dpa. According to…

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