Pakistan poverty explodes, inequality at 27-year high as economic crisis deepens | World News

[ad_1] Poverty in Pakistan has climbed to an 11-year high of 29%, while income inequality has reached its highest level in 27 years, according to an official survey released by planning minister Ahsan Iqbal on Friday. The report estimates that about 70 million people now live in extreme poverty, defined by a monthly threshold of […]

Prison sentence begins: Brazil ex-president starts 27-year jail term; Bolsonaro kept in secure police quarters

[ad_1] Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro (AP) Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, 70, was ordered Tuesday by the Supreme Court to begin serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a failed coup to block Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office after the 2022 elections. Bolsonaro, who once reshaped Brazil’s politics and fired […]