Brazil hosts air combat exercises for 14 air forces including USAF
The air forces of 14 nations including the United States are taking part this week in air combat exercises and non-conventional warfare training at a base in northern Brazil, the Brazilian Air Force said on Wednesday.
Bolsonaro’s party eyes forming biggest bloc in Brazil lower house
Brazil President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s party expects to recruit members from rivals in the Chamber of Deputies to form the biggest bloc with 61 seats, lawmakers said on Wednesday.
UK prime minister, Spanish premier talk Brexit, Gibraltar: May’s office
British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez about her commitment to agreeing a Brexit deal that works for the whole of the United Kingdom, including Gibraltar, May’s office said on Wednesday.
Kim Jong Who? South Korea revamps the way students study North Korea
A year of warming relations between North and South Korea has raised the prospects of closer ties, if not some form of unification for the still-warring neighbors far in the future. But it might not be obvious in a typical South Korean classroom.
Irish parliament overwhelmingly backs Brexit divorce deal
Ireland’s parliament overwhelmingly backed the divorce deal struck last week by Brexit negotiators, with all major parties supporting the draft agreement that the government says achieves all its key priorities.
Ex-Panama president’s sons detained in Miami on corruption charges
The two sons of jailed former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli have been arrested in Miami and face extradition back home on money-laundering charges, Panama’s attorney general said on Wednesday.
Well-wishers rally around ‘world’s oldest rebel,’ vet Harry Leslie Smith
Well-wishers including Canada’s prime minister are rallying around Harry Leslie Smith, the ailing nonagenarian who bills himself the “world’s oldest rebel,” after he fell and was hospitalized in Canada this week.
American missionary killed by tribe on remote Indian island
An American self-styled adventurer and Christian missionary has been killed and buried by a tribe of hunter-gatherers on a remote island in the Indian Ocean where he had gone to proselytize, local law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
Libyan gunmen free kidnapped Egyptians held over business dispute
Egyptian workers taken hostage in Libya this week over a financial dispute between Libyan contractors and their Egyptian partner have been freed, a relative of one of the hostages said.
May says to return to Brussels on Saturday in bid to seal Brexit deal
Prime Minister Theresa May said she would be returning to Brussels on Saturday to hammer out an outline of Britain’s future ties with the European Union after her meeting with the head of the bloc’s executive on Wednesday failed to bridge the gaps.
