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World leaders blast Trump as liar for calling climate change a con job at COP30 in Belém, Brazil! Trump skips summit (Nov 10-21, 2025); Colombia, Chile, Brazil's Lula slam his denialism. UK's Starmer laments lost consensus; only 30+ leaders attend. Focus: forest funds, 1.5°C goal after Hurricane Melissa's 75 deaths. Watch the climate clash!

While the U.S. and China are currently discussing the sale of U.S. soybeans, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins basically admitted on camera that the country is scrambling as their farmers have been hit hard after China stopped buying soybeans from them amid the trade war. Watch.

Brazil's President Lula declined a call with Trump after new tariffs were imposed, opting to connect with BRICS allies instead. He criticised the tariffs as unjustifiable and emphasised Brazil's reduced dependence on the US, while seeking to expand trade with other markets like China.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva rejected US tariffs, calling them unacceptable blackmail. He emphasised Brazil's sovereignty and criticised tech firms, asserting they spread violence and misinformation.

Social media platform X on April 16 said that it had restrained certain posts in India featuring political content from elected officials, political parties, and candidates for office following directives from the country's Election Commission. These included posts from AAP, YSRCP, Chandrababu Naidu, and others.

Social media platform X has received an inquiry from the U.S. House of Representatives ‘regarding actions taken in Brazil that were in violation of Brazilian law,' Elon Musk said on Wednesday in a post on X. X was asked to suspend the accounts of 'sitting members of the Brazilian parliament and many journalists,' Musk said in another post.

The conflict between Elon Musk and Brazilian authorities started after Brazil's Supreme Court judge Justice Alexandre de Moraes included the X, formerly known as Twitter owner as a party in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news, and opened a separate investigation involving the Tesla top executive for alleged obstruction of justice. Musk has now claimed that X employees in Brazil are being threatened with arrest.

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has opened an inquiry into Elon Musk after the multi-billionaire said he would reactivate accounts on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that the judge had ordered to be blocked.

Mad cow disease: The suspension is part of an animal health pact previously agreed upon between China and Brazil and is expected to be temporary.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has not requested Italian citizenship and probably would not get it even if he applied, Italy said on Tuesday. The remarks came even as hundreds of his backers were arrested for storming Brazil's state institutions.