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Bolsonaro's Is Barred From Office Until 2030

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's political career was in tatters on Friday as Brazil's federal electoral court barred the far-right nationalist from public office until 2030 for his conduct during last year's fraught election.
Five out of seven justices voted to convict the 68-year-old Bolsonaro for abuse of power and misuse of the media when, in July, before the 2022 election, he summoned ambassadors to vent unfounded claims about Brazil's electronic voting system.

Japan's privacy watchdog said on Friday it has warned OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed startup behind the ChatGPT chatbot, not to collect sensitive data without people's permission.
OpenAI should minimise the sensitive data it collects for machine learning, the Personal Information Protection Commission said in a statement, adding it may take further action if it has more concerns.

North Korea said its satellite scheduled to be launched in June is “indispensable to tracking, monitoring, discriminating, controlling and coping with in advance in real time the dangerous military acts of the U.S.”
Shares of South Korean defense companies Firstec and Victek rose 3.8% and 3.3% respectively Tuesday afternoon, returning from a market holiday Monday. Korea Aerospace Industries also edged up 0.6%.

TikTok Shop is aggressively expanding in Southeast Asia, posing a growing threat to Sea Group’s Shopee and Alibaba’s Lazada.
“Impulse buying from watching content is an advantage TikTok has,” Sachin Mittal, head of telecom and internet sector research at DBS Bank, told CNBC.
TikTok Shop is also “spending an incredible amount of money” incentivizing sellers and buyers to use the platform, said Jonathan Woo, Phillip Securities Research senior analyst.

The ratio of sheep to people in New Zealand has dropped below five to one - for the first time since the 1850s.
Stats NZ's new Agricultural Production Census for 2022 reveals the national flock dropped two percent on the year before, to 25.3 million sheep in June 2022.