Outgoing Brazil minister denies Bolsonaro allegation he sought Supreme Court seat
Outgoing Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro denied in a Twitter post on Friday evening that he had asked President Jair Bolsonaro to be nominated to the Supreme Court before the president dismissed the nation’s federal police chief.
‘I lost control and started crying’: Colombian doctor evicted as neighbors fear COVID-19
A doctor in the Colombian city of Cali said this week that he was forced from his apartment just eight days after he moved in because other residents of the building feared he would bring the new coronavirus into their homes.
Brazil ‘super minister’ quits in Bolsonaro’s worst crisis yet
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro suffered the heaviest blow to his presidency so far as his popular justice minister quit on Friday and accused him of potentially criminal meddling in law enforcement, adding to the turmoil of a government struggling to confront…
Brazil’s Bolsonaro denies trying to interfere in police investigations
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that allegations that he had tried to interfere in the work of the federal police were “baseless accusations” by outgoing Justice Minister Sergio Moro.
Brazil public prosecutor Aras asks Supreme Court to authorize Bolsonaro investigation
Brazilian public prosecutor Augusto Aras asked the Supreme Court on Friday to authorize the investigation of allegations made by former minister Sergio Moro against President Jair Bolsonaro, his office said.
Peru indigenous warn of ‘ethnocide by inaction’ as coronavirus hits Amazon tribes
Indigenous tribes in Peru’s Amazon say the government has left them to fend for themselves against the coronavirus, risking “ethnocide by inaction,” according to a letter from natives to the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rig…
Trump says U.S. sending ventilators, coronavirus help to Latin America, Asia
The United States will send ventilators to three countries in Latin America – Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras – as well as to Indonesia, President Donald Trump said on Friday, as the coronavirus pandemic has devastated countries around the world.
Explainer: How the U.S. is handling immigration enforcement during the coronavirus crisis
U.S. President Donald Trump made a hardline immigration agenda central to his 2020 re-election campaign and his administration has pushed ahead with a wide-ranging crackdown even as the United States has become the epicenter of the novel coronavirus ou…
Factbox: Latest on the spread of the coronavirus around the world
Reported cases of the coronavirus have crossed 2.73 million globally and 191,470 people have died, according to a Reuters tally as of 1400 GMT on Friday.
DR Congo police arrest leader of separatist cult after deadly clashes
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday arrested Ne Muanda Nsemi, the leader of a separatist religious sect, killing eight of his followers as they raided his home in Kinshasa, the interior minister said.
