Brazil court freezes Bolsonaro son’s assets as Trump’s tariffs appear to backfire

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Eduardo Bolsonaro is suspected of using money to lobby US president on behalf of his father, Jair, who faces arrest for apparent flouting of social media ban

A Brazilian supreme court judge has ordered that the bank accounts and assets of Jair Bolsonaro’s congressman son be frozen, as a political crisis – pitting Brazil’s far-right former president and Donald Trump against the current administration – intensified.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes – who has spearheaded a series of supreme court investigations into Bolsonaro – targeted the finances of Eduardo Bolsonaro, the ex-president’s third son, as a result of police suspicions that money being sent to him by his father was bankrolling his efforts to lobby the Trump administration to help Bolsonaro avoid punishment for an alleged coup attempt after the 2022 election.

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Heavy rains expected as Tropical Storm Wipha approaches Vietnam’s northern coast – Reuters

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  1. Heavy rains expected as Tropical Storm Wipha approaches Vietnam's northern coast  Reuters
  2. Storm Wipha hits northern Vietnam with strong winds and heavy rain  AP News
  3. Vietnam races to prepare for Typhoon Wipha as Philippines suffers storm deaths  Yahoo Home
  4. Tropical Storm Wipha makes landfall in Vietnam; heavy rains persist in Philippines  Reuters
  5. Typhoon Wipha makes landfall in southern China after battering Hong Kong  Al Jazeera
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The for-profit companies behind Israeli-U.S. nonprofit Gaza aid plan – The Washington Post

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  1. The for-profit companies behind Israeli-U.S. nonprofit Gaza aid plan  The Washington Post
  2. Why Israel’s Chaotic New Food Program in Gaza Has Turned So Deadly  The Wall Street Journal
  3. US-backed org sounds the alarm over abandoned aid for Gaza, calls for UN collaboration  Fox News
  4. Inside the aid-seeker ‘kill zone’ Israel created in Gaza  Al Jazeera
  5. Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story  theguardian.com
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Cold front to dump ‘decent dose’ of rain on drought-affected parts of south-east Australia

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Parched areas of South Australia, northern Victoria and south-western NSW to receive relief later this week

Drought-affected areas in south-eastern Australia can expect a “decent dose” of rain when a cold front arrives later this week, with some places likely to see the best rain of the year so far.

With one low-pressure system already delivering windy and wet conditions to the south-east on Tuesday, a second front – currently sitting off Western Australia – was expected to sweep across the country from Wednesday to Sunday, bringing a welcome band of rain to parched areas of South Australia, northern Victoria and south-western New South Wales.

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Fire in overhead locker on Virgin Australia flight believed to be caused by lithium battery in power bank

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Sydney to Hobart flight landed safely on Monday after a small fire ignited in a passenger’s carry-on luggage

A fire that broke out on a Virgin Australia flight from Sydney to Hobart is believed to have been caused by a power bank in a passenger’s carry-on luggage, prompting the airline to consider changes to its battery policy.

The Virgin flight VA1528 was making its descent into Hobart on Monday when the fire started in an overhead locker, a spokesperson for the airline said.

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Alleged childcare paedophile Joshua Dale Brown likely to face more charges, court told

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Magistrate Donna Bakos granted an application by police for extra time to compile additional evidence against Brown

Alleged childcare paedophile Joshua Dale Brown is likely to face extra charges, with a court granting police more time to investigate him.

Magistrate Donna Bakos on Tuesday approved a request by police for an extension in the matter of Brown and Michael Simon Wilson.

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Western diplomatic chiefs, EU Commissioner Lahbib condemn Israel’s treatment of Gaza civilians – politico.eu

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  1. Western diplomatic chiefs, EU Commissioner Lahbib condemn Israel’s treatment of Gaza civilians  politico.eu
  2. UK, Canada and 26 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’  AP News
  3. Images from Gaza are ‘unbearable,’ von der Leyen says  politico.eu
  4. 'UK condemnation of aid attacks' and 'Come on Lionesses'  BBC
  5. Lammy ‘sickened’ by Israel’s targeting of starving Palestinians and threatens fresh sanctions  theguardian.com
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Death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner shocks fans: ‘We saw ourselves in him’

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Actor’s Theo Huxtable provided an entire generation of Black youth and teens a relatable character

For Black youth and teens growing up in the mid-1980s, The Cosby Show offered something rarely seen on television up until that time: a sitcom that placed characters who looked like them in a positive light.

And Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Theo Huxtable was the character generation X most related to. Fans took quickly to social media on Monday as news of Warner’s accidental drowning in Costa Rica spread.

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Trump ‘caught off guard’ by Israeli strikes on Syria last week

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The White House confirmed that Trump called Netanyahu to ‘rectify’ the situation after ongoing clashes in the city of Sweida

Donald Trump was “caught off guard” by Israeli strikes on Syria last week, the White House has said, adding that the US president called Benjamin Netanyahu to “rectify” the situation.

Israel launched strikes on the capital Damascus and the southern Druze-majority city of Sweida last week, saying it aimed to put pressure on the Syrian government to withdraw its troops from the region amid ongoing clashes there.

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