Four billion miles from the sun floats Ultima Thule, an icy celestial body that NASA scientists announced Wednesday is aptly shaped like a giant snowman.ADVERTISING The first detailed images beamed back from the US agency’s New Horizons mission allowed scientists to confidently determine the body was formed when two spheres, or “lobes,” slowly gravitated towards each other until they stuck together —… Read more »
Peru Attorney General Pedro Chavarry on Wednesday reappointed two lead prosecutors he had dismissed from a high-profile graft probe after the decision sparked widespread opposition and a threat by President Martin Vizcarra to suspend him.ADVERTISING The prosecutors, Rafael Vela and Jose Domingo Perez, had recently drawn up a plea deal with Odebrecht that committed the Brazilian construction company to providing… Read more »
The government of newly inaugurated President Jair Bolsonaro set to work quickly on Wednesday, issuing decrees that lift protections for minorities and reward his allies in agribusiness, while forging closer political ties with the US.ADVERTISING Bolsonaro, a former army captain and seven-term congressman, won elections in October and was sworn in on Tuesday as Brazil‘s first far-right president since a military… Read more »
Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra is set to ask Congress to declare the public prosecutor’s office in a state of emergency after the agency’s top official removed two key investigators at the heart of a probe into a major graft scandal.ADVERTISING The two agents – ex-chief prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez and former fiscal coordinator Rafael Vela – had been leading an investigation into… Read more »