BRAZIL: The judge who jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on trumped-up corruption charges will be Justice Minister in Jair Bolsonaro’s government, they confirmed yesterday.

Sergio Moro sent Lula down for more than nine years for allegedly receiving a flat as a bribe from construction company OAS, a conviction based on the word of a single convict who had his sentence reduced in return.

SYRIA: The Foreign Ministry has called on the UN to order the United States to halt air strikes on Syrian territory, citing the discovery of a mass grave in Raqqa.