At least 18 people have been killed in a Brazilian police raid on a sprawling complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro, state military police said, in the latest deadly police operation in the city’s impoverished communities.
US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday that aims “to deter and disrupt hostage-taking and wrongful detentions” of Americans abroad, opening the way for sanctions and other deterrence measures to be imposed.
Ukraine has joined the US-aligned International Energy Agency (IEA) as an association country, the watchdog said, binding Kyiv closer to most Western countries which oppose Russia’s invasion.
Portugal has reported more than 1,000 deaths due to the current heatwave as temperatures continue to rise.
Portugal's head of health authority DGS, Graça Freitas, warned on Tuesday that the country must gear up to cope with the effects…