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Brazil Deploys Military to Venezuelan Border

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08/29/2018

08/29/2018

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Brazil Deploys Military to Venezuelan Border

Top News: Brazilian President Michel Temer on Tuesday said he would send troops to the country’s northern state of Roraima, which borders Venezuela.

Millions of Venezuelans have fled in the face of harsh living conditions brought on by the country’s economic free fall, creating migration crises in neighboring countries. Peru has declared a health emergency, and earlier this month, Brazilians living in a border town rioted and attack migrants.

The directive Temer signed—the “guarantee of law and order” decree—grants the military temporary policing authority.

Russia: Following protests and a drop in his approval rating, Russian President Vladimir Putin slightly walked back a plan to raise the female retirement age from 55 to 63 and the male retirement age from 60 to 65. Russian men have a life expectancy of 66. The retirement age for women would be raised to 60 instead, he said in a rare television appearance. He said delaying the measure would be “irresponsible” for the country’s pension system.

AFRICA

•  Germany repatriated to Namibia the skulls of people killed in a colonial-era genocide more than a century ago. The skulls were used for racist German eugenics research.

•  Nigeria ordered thousands of displaced citizens to return to an unsafe area in the country's northeast, Reuters reports.

•  Kenya’s high court temporarily halted criminal proceedings against Supreme Court deputy justice Philomena Mwilu, saying the case, which includes corruption allegations, raised constitutional concerns.

AMERICAS

•  In a meeting with evangelical leaders, U.S. President Donald Trump invoked a threat of left-wing violence connected to the upcoming midterm election. "It's not a question of like or dislike, it's a question that they will overturn everything that we've done and they will do it quickly and violently. And violently. There is violence,” he said.

•  Fisherman in Oaxaca, Mexico, found about 300 dead sea turtles caught in fishing nets, days after 102 olive ridley turtles were discovered dead in neighboring Chiapas.

•  In the United States, the attorney general of Pennsylvania said the Vatican had knowledge of the cover-up of the sexual abuse of thousands of children by priests in the state spanning 70 years.

ASIA

•  A dam breach in Myanmar displaced more than 50,000 people.

•  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for increased Japanese defense capabilities in cyberspace and outer space.

•  Hasanah Abdul Hamid, Malaysia’s former spy chief, was arrested for the alleged theft of election funds.

EUROPE

•  Trump’s personal lawyer, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, was paid to lobby the Romanian president through a letter that appeared to contradict the U.S. government’s stance on anti-corruption measures there.

•  According to a survey by the European Commission in which some 4.6 million people participated, 80 percent of EU citizens want to get rid of daylight savings time.

•  French President Emmanuel Macron said Hungary and Italy are “right to consider him a threat” in light of their governments’ nationalist resistance to the way the European Union has handled the migration crisis.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Egypt said its military killed at least 20 militants in the northern Sinai Peninsula and along its western border with Libya in recent days.

•  Israel’s intelligence minister said on Wednesday his country would not back down from striking Iranian targets in Syria.

•  The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees was able to open schools in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday despite U.S. funding cuts.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Isac Dantes/AFP/Getty Images)

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