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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-16 02:10:11 (1 day ago)

When is Ramadan 2026, and how is the moon sighted?

The first day of fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Mecca will likely be Thursday, February 19.

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RT News - Top Stories

RT News - Top Stories

2026-02-16 02:03:40 (1 day ago)

Trade deals will give India more access to EU and UK – Modi

Preview Trade deals with the UK and EU will help Indian products integrate better into global supply chains, Narendra Modi has said
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ABC News - International News

ABC News - International News

2026-02-16 02:01:48 (1 day ago)

Huge floats, wild costumes and nonstop street parties: Brazil Carnival in photos

The world’s biggest party is back as Carnival celebrations return to Brazil with glittery, outrageous costumes, samba rhythms ringing out until dawn and hundreds of raucous roaming parties flooding the streets. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

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Globo News - Mundo

Globo News - Mundo

2026-02-16 02:01:12 (1 day ago)

Brasil reavalia postura e abre espaço para negociações entre Mercosul e China


Governo vai enviar proposta de acordo Mercosul-UE para o Congresso O Brasil avalia, pela primeira vez, promover um acordo comercial parcial entre o Mercosul e a China, segundo altos funcionários do governo brasileiro. A iniciativa representaria uma mudança relevante na postura da maior economia da América Latina. Historicamente, o país vetou negociações formais com Pequim para proteger a indústria nacional do avanço das importações chinesas. 🗒️Tem alguma sugestão de reportagem? Mande para o g1 No entanto, diante da busca da China por laços comerciais mais profundos e das sucessivas tarifas impostas pelos Estados Unidos, o governo do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva passou a reavaliar essa posição. Uma declaração conjunta divulgada durante a visita do presidente do Uruguai, Yamandú Orsi, a Pequim, onde se reuniu com o presidente chinês, Xi Jinping, afirmou que ambos esperam que as negociações de livre comércio entre China e Mercosul possam começar “o mais rápido possível”. 👉 O Mercosul é formado por Brasil, Argentina, Paraguai e Uruguai, com a Bolívia prestes a se tornar membro pleno do bloco. Embora um acordo comercial amplo ainda esteja distante, dois integrantes do governo brasileiro afirmaram que um pacto parcial entre Mercosul e China passou a ser visto como uma possibilidade de longo prazo. A avaliação leva em conta as tarifas impostas pelos EUA a parceiros comerciais, que têm afetado o comércio global e alterado alianças econômicas. Os ministérios das Relações Exteriores e do Comércio da China não responderam imediatamente a pedidos de comentário. A mudança de postura do Brasil reflete o que um dos funcionários, que pediu anonimato devido à sensibilidade do tema, classificou como um “novo cenário global”. “Precisamos diversificar nossos parceiros”, afirmou o funcionário. Segundo ele, a China oferece a possibilidade de um acordo parcial, restrito a algumas faixas tarifárias. Outro representante do governo brasileiro, envolvido diretamente nas negociações internas do Mercosul, disse que o bloco poderia avançar em temas como cotas de importação, procedimentos alfandegários e regras sanitárias e de segurança. Esses pontos, segundo ele, já abririam espaço relevante no mercado chinês. O mesmo funcionário afirmou que ainda é cedo para indicar quais setores poderiam ser incluídos nas negociações, classificando o tema como “altamente complexo”. Lula e o presidente chinês, Xi Jinping, em Pequim, durante visita oficial do presidente brasileiro à China Ricardo Stuckert/Presidência da República via BBC "Nova dinâmica na região" O Brasil tem demonstrado cautela em relação a um acordo mais amplo, por receio de que a grande capacidade industrial da China prejudique os fabricantes nacionais. Apesar disso, os investimentos chineses na produção brasileira cresceram nos últimos anos, movimento que o governo brasileiro tem interesse em preservar. Segundo Ignacio Bartesaghi, especialista em política externa da Universidade Católica do Uruguai, as políticas econômicas do presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump — que incluíram pressão sobre países latino-americanos para reduzir laços com a China — podem estar incentivando Pequim a buscar novos acordos comerciais na região. “Há uma nova dinâmica regional no comércio, impulsionada principalmente por Trump”, afirmou Bartesaghi. “Ideias que antes pareciam completamente travadas agora podem avançar”, acrescentou. Ainda assim, qualquer acordo no âmbito do Mercosul exige consenso entre todos os membros, o que impõe desafios relevantes. O Paraguai é um dos poucos países no mundo que mantêm relações diplomáticas formais com Taiwan, reivindicada pela China. Esse fator, segundo autoridades brasileiras, dificulta — embora não inviabilize — um acordo com Pequim. Em 2025, o Paraguai importou US$ 6,12 bilhões em mercadorias da China e participou das discussões entre Mercosul e China, indicando que o diálogo segue aberto. O presidente paraguaio, Santiago Peña, afirmou que não se opõe a um acordo, desde que seja respeitado o direito do país de manter relações diplomáticas com Taiwan. “Se existe hoje um bloco capaz de negociar com qualquer país ou grupo, esse bloco é o Mercosul”, disse Peña em entrevista concedida em julho à imprensa argentina. A Argentina, terceira maior economia da América Latina, também pode dificultar o consenso. Desde a posse do presidente Javier Milei, em 2023, o país se aproximou de Washington. Milei priorizou o fortalecimento dos laços com os EUA, incluindo um acordo de swap cambial de US$ 20 bilhões com o Tesouro americano. Apesar disso, a China segue como um importante credor e um dos principais compradores das exportações agrícolas argentinas. Cúpula do Mercosul. Da esquerda para a direita: o presidente do Panamá, José Raúl Mulino; o presidente da Argentina, Javier Milei; o presidente do Paraguai, Santiago Peña; o presidente do Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; o presidente do Uruguai, Yamandú Orsi; e o ministro das Relações Exteriores da Bolívia, Fernando Aramayo. Foz do Iguaçu (PR), no Brasil, em 20 de dezembro de 2025. EVARISTO SA/AFP Ainda assim, especialistas como Bartesaghi avaliam que Buenos Aires pode resistir, ao menos no curto prazo, a apoiar negociações lideradas pela China dentro do Mercosul, sobretudo se isso comprometer os esforços do governo Milei para obter apoio dos EUA a reformas econômicas e financiamento. O Ministério das Relações Exteriores da Argentina afirmou que não comentaria “hipóteses” ao ser questionado sobre as negociações entre Mercosul e China. “A Argentina mantém relações cordiais com a China — elas apenas não são muito visíveis”, disse Florencia Rubiolo, diretora do centro de estudos argentino Insight 21. Segundo ela, um acordo envolvendo todo o Mercosul tornaria essa relação mais evidente. “Se a questão for um gesto diplomático, parece improvável que o governo apoie esse tipo de acordo”, concluiu.

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The Guardian - World News

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-16 02:00:47 (1 day ago)

Arrested retirees ‘vindicated’ by ruling against Palestine Action proscription

Protesters welcome high court decision but many remain in legal limbo as government prepares to lodge appeal

Retirees making up some of the nearly 3,000 people arrested for supporting Palestine Action since the organisation was proscribed have said they feel “vindicated” by the high court’s decision to overturn the ban this week.

However, uncertainty remains over whether their trials under terror laws may still go ahead after the government revealed it plans to appeal against the judgment made on Friday by three of the UK’s most senior judges.

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The Guardian - World News

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-16 02:00:46 (1 day ago)

‘Life requires cash’: Gaza’s jobs crisis leaves people struggling to afford basics

Fresh fruit and other items now available but at high prices in territory where unemployment is estimated at 80%

Every morning, Mansour Mohammad Bakr sets out from the small rented room in Gaza City he shares with his pregnant wife and two very young daughters. The 23-year-old walks past the port and the breaking waves of the Mediterranean where he once earned his living.

Before the two-year war that devastated Gaza, Bakr was a fisher, sharing tackle and a boat with his father and brothers. Now his brothers are dead, his father is too old, and his equipment was destroyed during the conflict. Like hundreds of thousands of others across Gaza, Bakr needs a job.

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The Guardian - World News

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-16 02:00:46 (1 day ago)

‘A permanent civil war in the body’: how fighting cancer helped an artist understand his Soviet youth

A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology

In autumn 2022, Giorgi Gagoshidze was in the middle of making a documentary film about the unravelling of the Soviet Union when he experienced his own personal system collapse. After returning from filming in Tbilisi to Berlin, where the 42-year-old Georgian artist lives, he was suffering from shortness of breath. An X-ray revealed that both his lungs had filled with water. He was told to get a taxi to the German capital’s Charité hospital straight away if he wanted to live.

Gagoshidze was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma, a rare, aggressive and fast-growing form of blood cancer in an advanced but curable stage. A brutal cocktail of chemotherapy followed by an eight-month hospital stay in isolation was his only shot at survival.

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The Guardian - World News

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-16 02:00:45 (1 day ago)

Provence in bloom – exploring its flower festivals and the ‘perfume capital of the world’

Mimosas and violets are already out in the south of France, making it the perfect time for a pre-spring road trip

As I take my seat in Galimard’s Studio des Fragrances, in the Provençal town of Grasse, I limber up my nostrils for the task ahead: to create my own scent from the 126 bottles in front of me. Together they represent a world of exotic aromas, from amber and musk to ginger and saffron. But given that I have left the grey British winter behind to come here, I am more interested in capturing the sunny essence of the Côte d’Azur.

Here in the hills north of Cannes, the colours pop: hillsides are full of bright yellow mimosa flowers, violets are peeping out of flowerbeds and oranges hang heavy on branches over garden walls, even though it’s not yet spring. It is the perfect antidote to the gloom back home, and the chance to bottle these very scents is a joy.

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The Guardian - World News

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-16 02:00:45 (1 day ago)

A World Appears by Michael Pollan review – a kaleidoscopic exploration of consciousness

The journalist and polymath probes the mysteries of the mind in this unsettling yet life-affirming investigation

The brain, wrote Charles Scott Sherrington, is an “enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern”. The British neuroscientist created this striking image more than 80 years ago, a time when mechanised looms, not computers, embodied the idea of technology. Even so, the symbolism feels relevant. We struggle to talk of our brains or minds without recourse to the machine metaphor: once it was clocks, then looms, and now computers. We say that our brains are hardwired; we talk of our ability to process information.

The quote appears as merely a footnote in Michael Pollan’s new book, A World Appears, a fabulous and mind-expanding exploration of consciousness: how and why we are self-aware. But the whole thing can be read as a lucid and impassioned riposte to Sherrington’s conception of the mind as a machine. In Pollan’s view, we have become imprisoned by such narratives, which have obscured the richness and complexity of human and non-human consciousness. Bridging both science and the humanities, Pollan mines neuroscientific research, philosophy, literature and his own mind, searching for different ways to think about being, and what it feels like.

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The Guardian - World News

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-16 02:00:44 (1 day ago)

Gangsterism review – dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism

Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina’s latest flits between radical and grandiloquent, but deserves close reading and exasperated sighs in equal measure

‘If cinema was a 19th-century dream actualised in the 20th century through chemistry, then the auteur was a 20th-century dream that needs to be actualised in the 21st through digital.” Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina is hellbent on that task in his latest feature, which almost entirely comprises a troupe of po-faced cineastes declaiming such theory-freighted slogans, and bemoaning what dogs the genuine auteur these days: western-centric power hierarchies, industry racism, the economic exclusion of serious artistic work, the tyranny of language.

It’s dense stuff, and staged at an ironic, if not quite playful, remove. Mark Bacolcol plays Clem, a director struggling to finance his next feature in the face of the system. Boyfriend Ez (Kalil Haddad) is an unblinking ideologue, who peps Clem up by telling him: “Be proud: regardless of race, most people don’t like your work.” Collaborators Nico (Jonalyn Aguilar) and March (Charlotte Zhang) are struggling to hurdle the same structural obstacles. A hipster collage in his office juxtaposes Mao’s Cultural Revolution with the title of Armond White’s 2020 book Make Spielberg Great Again. Needless to say it’s not the great white hope Clem is holding out for.

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BBC News - Technology

BBC News - Technology

2026-02-16 01:52:17 (1 day ago)

Tech firms must keep children's data if they die, under new plans

The government's new plans will mean no online platform will get a "free pass" on children's safety on the internet, the prime minister says.

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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-16 01:44:38 (1 day ago)

UK’s Starmer announces crackdown on AI chatbots in child safety push

PM seeks powers to act quickly on a consultation considering an Australia-style social media ban for children below 16.

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