Новости за 12.02.2024

Chinese New Year celebrations kicked off this weekend in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second-biggest city. China's most important holiday is now part of the city's official calendar. 

KABUL -- The last two Afghan prisoners who had been in the U.S.-run Guantanamo prison for years were set free and returned to Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Monday, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported.

SAO PAULO, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian police on Sunday arrested Army Col. Bernardo Romao Correa Netto, who is accused of plotting to prevent Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office in 2022 after he won the general elections.

Miami, Florida - Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services: the situation for Catholic clergy and faithful in Nicaragua is only worsening in 2024, according to exiled priests, laypeople in the Central American country and human rights advocates.

Brasilia - A Brazilian army colonel wanted by police in an investigation into an attempted coup by associates of Brazil's former far-right president was arrested Sunday when he returned from the United States.