Morning brief: Brazil bans Elon Musk's X; Gaza war updates, and more
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Brazil's Supreme Court on Friday (Aug 30) ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media platform X after it failed to comply with an order to name a new legal representative in the South American country.Judge Alexandre de Moraes handed the ruling and ordered the "immediate, complete and total suspension of X's operations" in Brazil.
As the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip rages on, Prime MinisterNetanyahu informedthat he was in favour of maintaining Israeli troops in thePhiladelphi Corridor over saving the lives of the remaining hostages in Gaza. However, this stance of Netanyahu horrifiedDefence Minister Yoav Gallant.
In other news from around the world, another knife attack has been reported in Germany days after the deadly Solingen stabbings. On Friday, a woman stabbed and wounded six people in a bus in Siegen.
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A Supreme Court judge in Brazil on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) after the social media network failed to comply with an order to name a new legal representative in the country.The Internet Service Providers (ISP) and app stores in the South American country have been given five days to block access to X.
The divide between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant appears to be widening.During a cabinet meeting on Thursday (Aug 29) Netanyahu informedthat he is in favour of maintaining Israeli troops in thePhiladelphi Corridor over saving the lives of the remaining hostages in Gaza, according to Israeli media reports.
A 32-year-old woman stabbed and wounded six people in a bus in Germany on Friday (Aug 30), just days after the deadly stabbings in Solingen that killed three people and injured eight others.
Former US president Donald Trump stopped aid to Pakistan after it emerged that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was in "undeniable complicity" with the terrorists, ex-National Security Adviser (NSA)Lt Gen (retd) HR McMaster has revealed in his book.
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