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BBC News with Chris Barrow.
The defeated right-wing candidate in Brazil's election, Flávio Bolsonaro, says the Supreme Court has banned him from leaving the country and ordered him to hand in his passports. He made the announcement by video on social media. "I never thought about leaving the country. I will hand over my passports and I will defend myself against this aberration, which is a clear attempt to intimidate me. But nobody's going to silence me because, as I said many times during the campaign, I'm the last obstacle to Lula's Workers' Party implementing its project to destroy the country." He's being investigated for alleged money laundering, which he denies. He's refused to accept his defeat, but his Liberal Party says it recognizes the result. Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has indicated she may be willing to engage in dialogue with the formally exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado. Ms. Machado was greeted with fanfare as she returned to the country on Saturday. On Sunday, I beg your pardon. Here's our Latin America correspondent, Will Grant. With Washington wanting nothing to derail its harmonious new relationship with Caracas, it perhaps comes as little surprise that both opposition leader María Corina Machado and interim President Delcy Rodríguez have expressed a willingness to hold talks. There is no time frame for such talks, but with the interim president saying it was an opportunity for "all voices to be heard," it is a significant shift from the kind of hostile language used about the Nobel Peace Prize winner by the Venezuelan government in recent years. The U.S. Justice Department has filed new charges against the former FBI director James Comey, accusing him of leaking national security information to a journalist a decade ago. It's the third time in just over a year the Trump administration has tried to prosecute him. Our North America correspondent is Shaimaa Khalil. Mr. Comey denies any wrongdoing, calling the charges an "appalling abuse." His lawyer says two previous investigations into the alleged disclosure concluded that no one should be prosecuted. Mr. Comey is a long-time critic of Donald Trump, who fired him as FBI director in 2017. An earlier case accusing him of lying to Congress was dismissed last year. And a separate case in which he's accused of threatening President Trump in a social media post is still pending. On the eve of elections in Israel, the scale of the rift between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his army chief is becoming clear. Israeli media are reporting that General Eyal Zamir was alone among security chiefs in opposing Mr. Netanyahu's plan to strike Iran the day before the knife-edge vote. The prime minister's main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot, has accused Mr. Netanyahu of playing up the threat from Iran when it suits him politically and failing to accomplish his war goals. This is the latest world news from the BBC. Syria has closed its main border crossing with Jordan after several people were killed in Jordanian airstrikes on the southern province of Daraa. The Jordanian military said it struck what it called "terrorist organizations" in Syria in response to a deadly attack on a Greek Orthodox church last week that killed nine people. Protesters in Belgrade have clashed with police after forcing their way into the offices of a news network favorable to the defeated former president, Aleksandar Vučić. According to local media reports, a group of people stormed the premises of Informer TV and confronted staff for their support of the right-wing populist leader and his Serbian progressive party. Mr. Vučić has condemned the break-in as an attack on media freedom. The former BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos has had a part of Antarctica named after him. A stretch of water between Rothschild and Alexander Islands, west of the white continent, is now called the Amos Channel. The Antarctic Place Names Committee said he played an influential role in bringing Antarctic research to public understanding during his career at the BBC. Mr. Amos said it was a tremendous honor. "This is an accolade that I now share with some of the greatest explorers in history, people like Shackleton, Amundsen and the like, which is kind of crazy when you think about it. It's been a tremendous privilege to report on that part of the world for the BBC, you know, 30 plus years. And as I like to say, Antarctica is the front line in the greatest story on planet Earth today, which is climate change." The Men's Ballon d'Or award this year has gone to England international Harry Kane. It's the first time a British man has won the football award in a quarter of a century. He received the prize at a ceremony in London where it's being held for the first time. Harry Kane beat off competition from 29 other nominated players to win the prize. And that's the latest world news from the BBC. |