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Brazilian army soldiers stand guard on Botafogo beach with the Sugar Loaf mountain in the background during the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro

Brazil Arrests G20 Guards Over Alleged 2022 Lula Assassination Plot

Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested four soldiers guarding the G20 summit over an alleged plot to assassinate then President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a 2022 "coup," a federal police source told AFP. The four "were arrested in Rio, where they were participating in the security operation for the G20 leaders' meeting," said the source, who added that a police officer was also taken into custody.
Police presence was heavy outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court in Hong Kong

Despondency And Defiance As 45 Hong Kong Campaigners Jailed

Under grey skies outside the court where 45 Hong Kong democracy campaigners were jailed for subversion on Tuesday, supporters were both despondent and defiant as a trial encapsulating the city's erosion of political freedoms finally came to a close.
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Africa accounted for 95 percent of the 244 million malaria cases and 608,000 deaths worldwide in 2022, according to the most recent data from the World Health Organization 

Urban Mosquito Sparks Malaria Surge In East Africa

The spread of a mosquito in East Africa that thrives in urban areas and is immune to insecticide is fuelling a surge in malaria that could reverse decades of progress against the disease, experts say.
Pedestrians walk past a government public notice banner for the National Security Law in Hong Kong on July 15, 2020

Hong Kong To Sentence Dozens Of Democracy Campaigners

Hong Kong's largest national security trial will draw to a close on Tuesday, with dozens of the city's most prominent democracy campaigners set to be sentenced for subversion, a charge which can carry up to life imprisonment.
A Sudanese army soldier mans a machine gun on top of a military pickup truck outside a hospital in Omdurman

Russia Vetoes Sudan Ceasefire Resolution At UN

Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Monday calling for an immediate end to hostilities in Sudan where a war between two rival generals has been raging since April 2023.
Thirteen Bangladeshi former top government officials appeared in court on Monday under heavy guard to face charges of inciting massacres

Bangladeshi Ex-ministers Face 'Massacre' Charges In Court

Thirteen Bangladeshi former top government officials arrested after the revolution in August appeared in court Monday accused of "enabling massacres", with prosecutors repeating extradition demands for exiled ex-leader Sheikh Hasina.

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