SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazilian prosecutors opened an investigation into three-time Formula One (F1) champion Nelson Piquet on Thursday after he was filmed wishing for the death of president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Da Silva narrowly won last Sunday’s presidential election against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, whom the 70-year-old Piquet staunchly supports. The former F1 […]
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (AP) – Human rights activists pressed their call yesterday for the immediate release of a former Philippine opposition senator after she was taken hostage in a rampage by three militants in a failed attempt to escape from a maximum-security jail. Police killed three Islamic State group-linked militants behind Sunday’s violence in which a […]