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• Brazil's former president Bolsonaro applies for six-month US tourist visa January 31, 2023
  Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has applied for a six-month tourist visa to remain in the United States, his lawyer said on Monday, despite calls for any US visas held by Bolsonaro to be revoked following violent protests in Brasilia.
• French FA chief Le Graet 'no longer has legitimacy' to stay in job, report says January 30, 2023
  Noel Le Graet, the scandal-hit president of the French Football Federation under investigation for sexual harassment, "no longer has the necessary legitimacy to run and represent French football", according to a report into governance failings at the body seen by AFP on Monday.
• Tunisia records low turnout in second vote for defanged parliament January 30, 2023
  Just 11.4 percent of Tunisian voters took part in a second round of elections for the toothless legislature, the electoral board said Monday in a final figure.
• Fighter jets for Ukraine: Top adviser 'counts on positive results very soon' January 30, 2023
  Igor Zhovkva, deputy head of the office of the president of Ukraine, urged western countries to deliver long-range missiles and fighter jets to Ukraine as he spoke to FRANCE 24 from Kyiv. He said Ukraine was counting on "positive results soon" and "believed in the united efforts of our partners in delivering weaponry to us". […]
• Rohingya refugees risk death at sea to escape Bangladesh camps January 30, 2023
  In early December, a video showing Rohingyas on an overcrowded makeshift boat made the rounds on social networks. It was drifting in the Andaman Sea, between Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia and Thailand, but no country came to its rescue – despite appeals from NGOs and the UN. Many boats meet the same fate, and every year Rohingyas […]
• Cardinal accused of sexual assault retires from Vatican post January 30, 2023
  Canadian cardinal Marc Ouellet, who has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman, has stepped down from a top Holy See position due to his age, the Vatican said Monday.
• France braces for fresh strikes, protests against Macron's pension reform January 30, 2023
  France braced Monday for another day of mass protests and strikes over proposed pension overhauls being pushed by President Emmanuel Macron, with the government and its left-wing opponents trading blame for the expected disruptions.
• Boris Johnson says Putin threatened to target him with missile attack January 30, 2023
  Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson has claimed President Vladimir Putin threatened to target him with a missile attack before ordering Russian forces into Ukraine.
• Suicide bomber targets police in Pakistan mosque attack, dozens killed January 30, 2023
  A suicide bomber struck a crowded mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan on Monday, causing the roof to collapse and killing at least 59 people and wounding more than 150 others, most of them police officers, officials said.
• Blinken calls for ‘urgent steps to restore calm’ between Israel, Palestinians January 30, 2023
  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Monday for "urgent steps" to calm spiralling violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after high-level talks in Jerusalem.