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Brazilian far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, imprisoned for plotting a coup after he lost the country's last election, is receiving treatment in an intensive care unit after being hospitalised with bronchopneumonia. The DF Star hospital in Brasilia said in a statement on Saturday that the 70-year-old was in a stable condition despite being diagnosed with worsening kidney function.

Jose Antonio Kast, a 60-year-old ultra Catholic whose father was a member of the Nazi party, has consistently blocked progressive bids for women's rights and equality across his three-decade career in politics. As a congressman, Kast voted against divorce when Chile became one of the last countries of the world to legalise it in 2004 and vehemently opposed the legalisation of abortion under limited exceptions when it was passed in 2017.

The reform is part of Milei's free market agenda and aims to boost hiring by loosening employers' liabilities and limiting workers' rights. The law will: Limit the right to strike, Reduce unions' bargaining power, Make it easier for companies to fire workers, Extend probation periods, Curb workers' ability to sue employers upon dismissal, Cut severance pay, which is traditionally high in Argentina, Empower employers to mandate 12-hour workdays (instead of the current eight), Reduce salaries for employees on sick leave.

The Senate approved the so-called labour modernization law on Friday with 42 votes in favour, 28 against and two abstentions, handing the libertarian president one of his most significant legislative wins. Milei's administration argues the changes will spur investment and create formal jobs, while labour unions contend they weaken worker protections.

While anyone drawing up a list of potential Conservative defectors to Reform UK would have put Suella Braverman near the top, this is still a big moment. Braverman is a former Conservative home secretary, a big beast of recent Tory history. And her switch emphasises the momentum Reform are showing in draining the Conservative Party. She is the fourth sitting Tory MP to join the party since the last election, and the third this month. The week before last it was Robert Jenrick, a week ago it was Andrew Rosindell, now Braverman.

On Feb. 25, 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; opposition leader Corazon Aquino the first woman to lead the country assumed the presidency.

Peru's interim president, Jose Jeri, has denied lying to the country and claimed he was the victim of a plot to discredit him amid a growing political scandal over his secretive meetings with Chinese businessmen. Jeri, 39, who took office in October after his predecessor Dina Boluarte was forced out, told a congressional oversight committee on Wednesday that he had been the target of a smear campaign designed to destabilise the country ahead of elections in April.

The National Congress approved a legislative decree ordering the National Electoral Council to count the votes and tally sheets from the November 30 elections. The measure was passed with the participation of only 69 pro-government lawmakers and their allies. Castro supported the initiative and argued that electoral authorities had unjustifiably refused to scrutinize 4,774 tally sheets, representing the votes of 1,558,689 citizens.

Costa Rica heads to the polls on Sunday in an election dominated by increasing insecurity and warnings of an authoritarian turn in a country long seen as a model of liberal democracy in the region. Crime is a big concern for many voters as criminal groups battle to control lucrative cocaine trafficking routes to Europe and the US, casting a shadow on the Central American country famous for its wildlife tourism.

I believe that if Maduro has to be trialled, he has to be trialled in his country, not trialled abroad, Lula said in an interview, emphasising that what matters now is to re-establish democracy in Venezuela. It has to be solved by the people of Venezuela, and not by foreign interference, said Lula, citing a history of US-backed dictatorships in Latin America, including Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.

Since United States armed forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3, Machado has maintained a steady public presence. On Monday, she had an audience with Pope Leo at the Vatican. And on Thursday, she will meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC. All the while, she has given interviews to news outlets like CBS, Fox News and the popular Venezuelan news website La Patilla.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday dissolved parliament ahead of a snap general election on February 8 a vote that she hopes will provide her with a new mandate to negotiate the challenges facing the nation. Analysts caution, however, that Takaichi's solid approval ratings may not translate into support for her scandal-tainted Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), while a new opposition party has suddenly emerged as a viable alternative to the long-ruling LDP.

Judith Marin, 30, was once ejected from Chile's senate by police for screaming return to the Lord during a vote to decriminalise abortion under restricted circumstances. She is an evangelical former student church group president who belonged to the Eagles of Jesus, a far-right Christian group which recruits at universities around the country. Marin has publicly questioned the future of the ministry she will now lead, and defended the natural family the idea that a man and woman head a household.