Italy’s lawmakers pick euroskeptic to chair state-owned TV RAI
Italy’s lawmakers appointed a euroskeptic journalist as chairman of national broadcaster RAI on Wednesday in a move set to strengthen the populist government’s grip on the country’s biggest television group.
U.S. accuses China of broad malign influence campaign
China’s Communist Party and government conduct a variety of malign influence and interference activities in the United States and globally, a senior Trump administration official told reporters on Wednesday hours after President Donald Trump accused Ch…
Venezuela’s Maduro says landing in New York for U.N. meeting
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said via Twitter on Wednesday afternoon he was landing in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
Brazil opinion poll shows Bolsonaro leads Haddad but loses runoff
Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has only a six-point lead over surging leftist Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad, and would lose a second-round runoff against him next month, a new opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
Brazil police raid offices of highway operating firms
Brazilian federal police said they had raided the offices of six highway operators on Wednesday, taking multiple executives into custody, the latest development in a wide-ranging corruption crackdown in South America’s largest country.
U.S. flies bombers over South China Sea amid heightened tensions with Beijing
The U.S. military flew B-52 bombers in the vicinity of the South China Sea this week, U.S. officials told Reuters, a move that is likely to cause anger in Beijing amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
Trump says China putting ‘propaganda ads’ in U.S. newspapers
President Donald Trump, elaborating on his charge at the United Nations that Beijing is meddling in U.S. elections, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that China placed “propaganda ads” made to look like news articles in an Iowa newspaper.
Islamic State says Iran attack will not be the last: al Furqan
A spokesman for the Islamic State said in an undated recording released on Wednesday that an attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which the group claimed on Saturday, would not be the last.
Brazil opinion poll shows Bolsonaro leads Haddad by 6 points
Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has held his lead ahead of the Oct. 7 election with 27 percent of voter support, but Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad is close behind with 21 percent, a new opinion poll showed on Wednesda…
Salisbury poisoning suspect named as a Russian colonel by UK media
The real identity of one of the men wanted by Britain for the Salisbury nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter is Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga, according to media reports on Wednesday which said he was a decorated Ru…
