Longtime Brazil Olympic Boss Sentenced To 30 Years For Rio 2016 Corruption

SAO PAULO (AP) — Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the head of the Brazilian Olympic Committee for more than two decades, was sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for allegedly buying votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics.The ruling by Judge Marcelo Bretas became public Thursday.Nuzman, who also headed the Rio…Continue Reading

Omicron Variant Won’t Affect Australia’s Reopening: Health Minister

The new COVID-19 variant emerging from southern Africa would not have any immediate effect on Australia’s plan to reopen after rolling lockdowns, the country’s health minister said. Health Minister Greg Hunt said this is because there has been “very little traffic” directly from South Africa, and Australia’s high vaccination rate. The last repatriation flight from South…Continue Reading

Communist Officials Spy on Each Other as Power Struggle Intensifies

Commentary Wiretapping political opponents plays a significant role in the power struggle among Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. China News Weekly, a state-run news magazine based in Beijing, recently published article on Liu Xinyun, vice governor of Shanxi Province since 2018. The article described Liu as a ruthless government official who “befriended political crooks and abused spying…Continue Reading

New Australia Post Facility to Meet Demand Before Christmas

Australia Post has opened a new parcel facility in Sydney to keep up with record demand amid Black Friday sales and in the lead up to Christmas. The new 20,000-square-metre facility is capable of processing over 100,000 parcels per day, bringing Australia Post’s total processing capacity in New South Wales to almost 1.5 million parcels…Continue Reading

Facts Matter (Nov. 26): People Ordered to Mask Up at Home; Fauci Says Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Could Be Changed

People in Santa Cruz, California, were ordered by their local government to wear masks in their own homes for Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, as the Biden administration is pushing vaccine manufacturers to increase their production, it’s worth considering the state of several highly vaccinated countries. For instance, both South Korea and Ireland have over 90 percent of…Continue Reading

Presidential Impeachments Sweep Across South America

Peru’s Congress filed a motion to impeach President Pedro Castillo on Nov. 25, which political rival Keiko Fujimori and her Popular Force party supported. Castillo’s administration has been plagued with scandal and corruption charges since he took office this summer. The Nov. 25 impeachment motion makes Peru the third South American nation, since October, to consider removing its president. Chile’s…Continue Reading

Cross-chain Aggregator Cloud NFT Successfully Closes a Pre-Sale with $2.25 Mln Raised

Tallinn, Estonia, Nov 26, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Cross-chain aggregator Cloud NFT successfully closes a pre-sale with $2.25 mln raised. On November 25, the pre-sale of $ CLOUD, utility tokens of the Cloud NFT project, took place. Within 4 hours project raised $ 2.25 million by selling 7 million tokens. Public sale date and…Continue Reading

Constitution Day: PM slams parivarvaad, 13 parties boycott event; Israel detects its 1st case of new Covid variant; more

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