Leaked documents showing Brazilian anticorruption investigators conspired to keep leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva out of the 2018 presidential race ignited a firestorm on social media Monday, but analysts downplayed the potential fall-out. The Intercept website published a series of explosive articles Sunday based on material provided by an anonymous source that it […]
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U.S. moving toward major antitrust probe of tech giants
The U.S. government is gearing up to investigate the massive market power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, sources told Reuters on Monday, setting up what could be an unprecedented wide-ranging probe of some of the world’s largest companies. The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, which jointly enforce antitrust laws in the […]
Anti-apartheid activists laid to rest in peace, 50 years on
Pulane Koboekae looked pensively at the seven nooses suspended over a trap door in Pretoria Central Prison where her brother Richard Motsoahae was hanged by South Africa’s apartheid regime in 1964. Then she pulled out a white tissue and sobbed silently. “It has opened up old wounds. I’m feeling mixed emotions. I feel sick, but […]
Trump intensifies attacks on head of Russia probe
US President Donald Trump intensified his attacks Tuesday on the special counsel probing possible collusion between Russia and his 2016 electoral campaign, after prosecutors said his former campaign chairman lied to investigators. Trump’s ongoing attacks against the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller have become more virulent this month, after the president installed a new […]