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Flavio Bolsonaro declared himself the rightful leader of his country despite losing the presidential election runoff on Sunday. He and his family have fled to the US.
Flavio Bolsonaro declared himself the rightful leader of his country despite losing the presidential election runoff on Sunday. He and his family have fled to the US.
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<p>CBS News editor-in-chief sidesteps viewership concerns and says flagship show doing ‘tremendously well’</p><p>CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has spoken publicly for the first time about the ratings challenges the network has experienced under her year-long tenure, sidestepping concerns about diminished viewership at the Sunday show 60 Minutes by saying it was not her top priority.</p><p>“I could never build anything if I were focused on the precise number of people that happen to tune in to the second feature on 60 Minutes on a given Sunday,” <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cbs-bari-weiss-tells-critics-judge-journalism">she said at an industry conference</a> on Wednesday organized by the tech publication the Information. The news organization did not offer press credentials.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/28/bari-weiss-cbs-news-60-minutes">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Information released by Distributed Denial of Secrets is the third such government data disclosure in the last month</p><p>The leak website Distributed Denial of Secrets said on Wednesday it has released data on more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, including details about officials working in sensitive fields such as surveillance and human intelligence.</p><p>DHS did not immediately return a message seeking comment.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/homeland-security-data-leak">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Nothing done to stop planting weapons on dead Afghans, ADF inspector says, as ‘breakdown of command’ allowed ‘egregious behaviour’</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily political email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Some Australian SAS officers knew that soldiers under their command were using “throwdowns” – planting weapons on dead Afghan civilians to portray them as combatants – but did nothing to stop the unlawful practice, a previously unpublished military report has said.</p><p>Posted online this week, the <a href="https://www.igadf.gov.au/system/files/2026-10/Executive%20Summary%20of%20the%20IGADF%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20Cultural%20Context%20in%20which%20Command%20over%20SOTGs%20or%20Special%20Forces%20Personnel%20was%20exercised%20in%20Afghanistan.pdf">executive summary of a 2021 investigation</a> into the “cultural context” of the special operations command by the inspector general of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) is scathing about the “breakdown of command” and the erosion of military discipline during special forces operations in Afghanistan, which “resulted in episodes of potential and actual egregious behaviour”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/29/australian-sas-officers-knew-about-unlawful-throwdowns-on-dead-afghans-report-says-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>
The eight-year-old was in an enclosure with other children and a staff member when she was attacked.