Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup

Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses

Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup.

The far-right populist, 70, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking power.

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Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison – AP News

  1. Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison  AP News
  2. Italy has a femicide problem. Critics say Prime Minister Georgia Meloni should do more to fix it  CNN
  3. Dancers perform on the Spanish Steps to raise awareness on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Rome  Reuters Connect
  4. Violence against women, Mattarella: "The principle of equality is slow to assert itself."  Agenzia Nova
  5. Images of the Day: Aeroporti di Roma stages powerful performance against gender-based violence  Moodie Davitt Report
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Niger state kidnap: Catholic bishop hits out at Nigeria’s failure to rescue abducted schoolchildren – BBC

  1. Niger state kidnap: Catholic bishop hits out at Nigeria's failure to rescue abducted schoolchildren  BBC
  2. Nigeria school kidnappers threatened to shoot crying child, teacher says  Reuters
  3. Nigeria school kidnapping: Who’s behind it, why were children targeted?  Al Jazeera
  4. ‘The Sinner,’ Vatican terms, and stretching curds  The Pillar
  5. Pope calls on kidnappers in Nigeria to free 265 students and teachers after 50 pupils escape  Politico
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UK accused of caving-in to British Virgin Islands over access to companies register

Parliamentary group urges government to clamp down on overseas territories before flagship anti-corruption summit

The UK government has been accused of caving-in to pressure from the British Virgin Islands by allowing it to limit access to a register of company share ownership to only those deemed to have a legitimate interest.

The restriction, to be discussed at talks starting on Tuesday between Foreign Office ministers and leaders of the British overseas territories (BOTs) in London, is in defiance of legislation passed by the UK government as long ago as 2008 that would make the register available to all.

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Protests erupt in China’s Guizhou province over cremation mandate

Villagers demonstrate against drive for alternative funeral practices instead of burial to preserve land resources

Protests have erupted in China’s southern Guizhou province, the latest in a string of rural demonstrations that have seen incidents of unrest increase by 70% compared with last year.

The protests in Shidong town started over the weekend in response to a directive from local authorities that people should be cremated rather than buried after their death.

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