The holding company behind JBS has agreed to pay roughly $3.2 billion to authorities. The plea agreement implicated President Michel Temer in the vast corruption scandal now roiling the country.
Goldman Sachs has been accused of giving President Nicolas Maduro a lifeline with a $2.8 billion bond deal. Meanwhile, in Venezuela's streets, protests calling for his ouster show no sign of abating.
The line was financed with more than $3 billion borrowed from the Chinese government. A Chinese company built it, and a Chinese company will operate it for the first five years.
The court order targets the secular National Democratic Action Society. Human rights groups are decrying the court order, saying it amounts to a de facto ban on all opposition in the country.
The Hungarian government wants to close a university founded by the financier George Soros. Students and faculty have appealed to the U.S. for help, but some Republican lawmakers think Soros is the problem.
NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Reuters Afghanistan correspondent Josh Smith about Wednesday's terrorist attack in Kabul that killed at least 80 people. A bomb hidden in a truck went off during morning rush hour.
Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor has just spent the past semester teaching in Belfast, Ireland. She talks about how Seamus Heaney poems and visions of home swirled in her head.
Two other Chinese labor activists are missing and presumed to be detained by police. The three were working undercover to document alleged labor abuses.