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• O presidente Donald J. Trump assinou uma ordem executiva impondo sanções direcionadas a diversas autoridades e entidades do regime cubano que o governo alega terem apoiado a repressão e abusos dos direitos humanos. • A Casa Branca afirma que a medida envia uma mensagem de solidariedade aos dissidentes cubanos e complementa esforços mais amplos para pressionar regimes autoritários na América Latina. • Críticos no Congresso, incluindo alguns democratas e até mesmo alguns republicanos, argumentam que a medida pode ser contraproducente ao restringir o poder de barganha dos EUA antes das próximas negociações sobre migração e segurança regional.

Estudantes que participam do ritual anual da universidade dizem que imagens delas em trajes de banho estão sendo publicadas sem consentimento em jornais nacionais. Quando o sol nascer ao amanhecer de sexta-feira, centenas de estudantes da St Andrews University enfrentarão o gelado Mar do Norte para o May Dip anual, um ritual de graduação que dizem trazer sorte nos exames. Mas os estudantes não estarão sozinhos na praia. Nos últimos anos, esse ritual excêntrico tornou-se alvo de fotógrafos de agências e freelancers que buscam lucrar com imagens de estudantes em biquínis, incluindo alguns que acampam durante a noite nas dunas de East Sands, perto da trilha costeira de Fife. “Acabou com a minha noite”, disse Anna, uma das estudantes cuja foto apareceu em uma reportagem publicada pelo Scotsman. “Agora, quando penso naquele May Dip, penso naquela imagem, e é só isso”. Continue lendo...

Federal raids unfold in Twin Cities amid ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and Minnesota officialsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxFederal agents under the command of the Trump administration have descended on Minnesota’s Twin Cities again to primarily target alleged fraud at daycares after the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s so-called “Operation Metro Surge” all but wound down earlier in the year.“Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” the US justice department told the Guardian in a statement on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Ceasefire frays further as Israel also carries out airstrikes and issues new displacement orders for south Lebanon Hezbollah launched several drones at Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, while Israel issued new displacement orders for south Lebanon and carried out airstrikes, as the fraying ceasefire failed to stop fighting between the two sides.Hezbollah claimed Tuesday’s attack injured several Israeli soldiers, but no confirmation was given from the Israeli military, apart from a statement saying interceptor missiles had been fired at incoming Hezbollah drones. Continue reading...

Fiona Hill tells MPs UK is ‘vulnerable’ because it does not educate people on how to deal with information warfareBritain is becoming a soft target for Russian and other state propaganda because the UK is not prepared to educate people on how to deal with information warfare, according to a former White House adviser and security expert.Fiona Hill told a parliamentary committee that she feared the UK had become “extraordinarily vulnerable” to online manipulation feeding into the electoral system because there was a lack of discussion about civil defence. Continue reading...

Trump and first lady were safely evacuated and police arrested Cole Tomas Allen of southern California at eventThe gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration, the acting US attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Sunday morning.Blanche also said officials believe that the suspect traveled by train from California to Chicago and then on to Washington, where he checked in as a guest at the hotel where one of the capital’s glitziest annual events was being held, the Washington Hilton. Continue reading...