Our daily cruise around the world

🇷🇺 The Russian Republic of Chechnya banned public performances of music considered too fast or slow. Friday's decision limits all public musical performances to music with a tempo between 80 and 116 beats per minute, with the policy intended to promote traditional Chechen music. The ban applies to many Western musical styles, including pop, techno, and rap. Artists have until June 1 to rewrite music that doesn't meet the criteria.

🇧🇷 Brazil’s Supreme Court is investigating X owner Elon Musk for allegedly obstructing justice. The investigation was announced yesterday after Musk revealed plans to disobey a recent ruling by one of Brazil’s Supreme Court Justices that called for X to block certain unnamed accounts. The ruling came as part of a broader clampdown on what Brazil’s Supreme Court deems as hate speech and misinformation. Musk, who called the Court’s ruling unconstitutional and against his principles, said his decision will “probably” result in X losing all revenue in Brazil.

🇻🇦 The Vatican clarified the Catholic Church’s stance on gender-affirming surgeries. In a 20-page declaration, which had been in the works for five years, Church officials delivered one of their most explicit rejections of sex changes, calling them a threat to human dignity. The Vatican also reaffirmed the Church’s view that gender identity can’t be distinct from biological sex at birth.