In India, hospitals nationwide are nearing breaking point as a double mutation of the coronavirus triggers a spike in Covid cases. More than 68,000 Covid infections were recorded on Monday - a sixfold increase since mid-February - as a growing number of Indian states report cases of the variant.
Over in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro was hit by the resignations of his three most senior military figures after axing his defence minister, Fernando Azevedo e Silva, a reserve army general with 45 years of service.
Meanwhile, investigators in Egypt boarded the Ever Given as a probe began into how the 400-metre-long freight ship became wedged across the Suez Canal. Legal experts are warning that compensation claims for losses triggered by the resulting maritime traffic jam could amount to billions of dollars - and that deciding who should foot the bill could take years.
Brazil s president picks Army chief amid tension with military
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Braga Netto called for unity in fighting the pandemic.
Brazil s Defense Ministry appointed late Wednesday the new chiefs of staff for its three armed forces following the decision of their predecessors to turn in their resignations in support of deposed Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo e Silva, who has been replaced by Walter Braga Netto in a major cabinet reshuffle by President Jair Bolsonaro over the past week.
Paulo Sergio Nogueira de Oliveira will take over the Army, Almir Garnier will head the Navy and Baptista Júnior is as of now in charge of the Air Force, Braga Netto announced as he underlined that the Armed Forces would remain faithful to their constitutional mission.
Bolsonaro names new military commanders after mass resignation 2 minutes read
Brasilia, Mar 31 (efe-epa).- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday named three new armed forces commanders after the resignation earlier this week of the heads of the army, air force and navy, Defense Minister Gen. Walter Braga Netto announced.
In a ceremony held in Brasilia, Braga Netto officially announced the appointments of Gen. Paulo Sergio Nogueira de Oliveira as army commander, Lt. Gen. Carlos Baptista Junior as air force commander and Adm. Almir Garnier at the navy’s top officer.
Nogueira de Oliveira now occupies the post that Gen. Edson Pujol vacated, while Baptista Junior replaces Lt. Gen. Antonio Carlos Moretti Bermudez and Garnier replaces Adm. Ilques Barbosa.
Brazil military chiefs quit after Bolsonaro fires Defence Minister
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President is facing criticism as virus toll has crossed 3-lakh mark
The leaders of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces jointly resigned on Tuesday following President Jair Bolsonaro’s replacement of the Defence Minister, causing widespread apprehension of a military shakeup to serve the President’s political interests.
The Defense Ministry reported the resignations apparently unprecedented since at least the end of military rule 36 years ago in a statement released without giving reasons. Replacements were not named. But analysts expressed fears the President, increasingly under pressure, was moving to assert greater control over the military.
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