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U.S. and Australia suspend consular services in Brazil ahead of election citing security concernsRIO DE JANEIRO — U.S. consular services and the Australian embassy in Brazil closed Friday citing security concerns, two days before the country’s presidential election, authorities from both countries said. Also on Friday, Brazil’s federal police said they executed search and seizure warrants in Sao Paulo and the Federal District
'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect KidsSince Republicans in the US Senate this week blocked a bill to make school bus stops off-limits for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, community members in Pennsylvania and Austin, Texas have expressed outrage by arrests made in front of children—in at least one reported case, leaving a child abandoned as officers detained his mother. "It doesn’t…
Ex-congressman and Rubio ally gets 10 years for secret Venezuela lobbyingA former Florida congressman and political mentor to Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced to a decade in federal prison Friday for his role in a secret $50 million campaign to lobby officials in Washington on behalf of the Venezuelan government. David Rivera, a Republican from Miami who served one term in the U.S. House from 2011 to 2013, was…
Amnesty Decries 'Blatant Attack' on Right to Assembly Amid Crackdown on India Election ProtestsPolice in New Delhi detained hundreds of people Friday amid a crackdown on demonstrations challenging India's election authorities and their controversial revision of voter rolls, prompting Amnesty International to accuse the government of trampling fundamental rights in the world's largest democracy. More than 700 protesters —including former Delhi…