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Brazil Supreme Court justice orders investigation of Elon Musk over fake news and obstruction

By DAVID BILLER and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice is adding Elon Musk to an investigation over the dissemination of fake news and investigating him separately for alleged obstruction. Justice Alexandre de Moraes noted that Musk began a “disinformation campaign” regarding the top court’s

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South Korea launches its 2nd military spy satellite amid animosities with North Korea

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has successfully launched its second military spy satellite into orbit, days after North Korea reaffirmed its plan to launch multiple reconnaissance satellites this year. The Koreas each launched their first spy satellites last year amid heightened animosities. They said their satellites would boost

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Brazil Supreme Court justice investigating Elon Musk over fake news and alleged obstruction

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice is adding Elon Musk to an investigation over the dissemination of fake news and investigating him separately for alleged obstruction. Justice Alexandre de Moraes noted that Musk began a “disinformation campaign” regarding the top court’s actions, including saying the

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El Salvador offers 5,000 passports to skilled foreign workers

By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — El Salvador is offering 5,000 “free passports” to highly skilled workers from abroad, President Nayib Bukele announced Saturday in his latest attempt to boost the country’s economy with foreign investment. Scientists, engineers, doctors, artists, and philosophers will be granted “full citizen status” including voting rights, the president said in

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Ecuador and Mexico were feuding over election and asylum before embassy break-in

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A spat between Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spiraled into a full-blown diplomatic crisis when Ecuadorian police raided Mexico’s embassy Friday night. It’s an extremely rare show of force that international law experts, presidents and diplomats have deemed a

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Conservative opposition leads Prime Minister Tusk’s party in Poland’s local races, exit poll says

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An exit poll released after Poland’s local and regional elections Sunday showed Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-EU party trailing the conservative opposition party that governed Poland for eight years until December. But the socially liberal mayor of Warsaw, a Tusk ally, easily won another term in

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