Brazil reintroduces visa requirements for tourists from US, Australia, Canada, Japan beginning on Oct. 1
Starting on Oct. 1, Brazil is reintroducing a visa requirement for tourists from the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Australia. Brazil's former president scrapped the visa requirement in 2019.
foxnews.comBiden announces nuclear sub deal with Australia, UK
President Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia and the U.K. announced Australia will buy nuclear-powered submarines from the U.S. to modernize its fleet. The agreement comes as concerns grow about China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region. (March 13)
news.yahoo.com‘This is my country’: Woman filmed yelling racist insults at Sydney cafe worker
A video of a woman hurling anti-Asian rhetoric at a cafe worker in Sydney, Australia, has gone viral on social media. The incident occurred at The Coffee Club in Top Ryde Shopping Centre, according to Daily Mail Australia. The worker was reportedly trying to clear a table when the woman began yelling racist insults at him.
news.yahoo.comClimate crisis could have been avoided if colonists adopted indigenous lifestyle, says top Biden official
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Tuesday in Australia that if colonists had taken on the environmental ways of indigenous tribes they encountered, there might not be a climate crisis.
foxnews.comWife of former US pilot complains of Australian treatment
The wife of a former U.S. military pilot accused by the United States of illegally training Chinese aviators said Monday her husband was being held in inhumane conditions as he fights extradition from Australia. Saffrine Duggan said her husband Daniel Duggan had already been kept 115 days in a “tiny cell” in Sydney’s Silverwater Correctional Complex because of U.S. charges that had yet to be heard in court. “He is suffering the harshest possible prison classification in Australia as an ‘extreme high risk restricted inmate’ despite having no prior (or current) convictions,” she said in a statement.
news.yahoo.comMurray match highlights how tennis can be an all-night sport
Andy Murray was pleased with the result but not happy about the circumstances after finishing an Australian Open victory after 4 a.m. His marathon raised anew the issue that tennis has shown it is that rare sport where folks sometimes need to play all night.
Australian Open 2023: Coco Gauff, a teen in a tennis hurry
Coco Gauff acknowledges she tends to be in a bit of a hurry as she moves through life. The 18-year-old Floridian doesn’t stick around in a city after a tennis tournament ends: “Even if it’s a nice place,” she said with a chuckle, “I like to leave.” Yes, generally, Gauff is ready to move on.
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