Brazil: outcry after funk singer arrested for allegedly inciting crime in lyrics
Artists and legal experts are outraged over MC Poze do Rodo’s detention over supposed non-violent offences The arrest of a well-known Brazilian funk singer on...
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Brazilian tribe sues New York Times for allegedly portraying members as porn addicts
Defamation suit claims Marubo people were depicted as tech-addled and porn-obsessed after introduction of internet An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued the...
Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81
Brazilian photographer’s work highlighted injustice and introduced rainforest to the world ‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures The Brazilian...
Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’
Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction Environmental activists in Brazil have decried a dramatic rollback of environmental...
Scorpions ‘taking over’ Brazilian cities with reported stings rising 250%
Fast and unplanned growth of cities providing ideal conditions for the creatures to thrive, say researchers Scorpions are “taking over” Brazilian cities, researchers have warned...
Brazil rejects US request to designate two gangs as terrorist organizations
Security minister says US delegation wanted classification for PCC and Comando Vermelho to aid immigration policy The Brazilian government has rejected a request by the...
Outrage in Brazil over reports of new red national football jersey
CBF reportedly considering red jersey ahead of World Cup but rightwingers consider the colour anti-patriotic “Our flag will never be red!” rightwing Brazilians took to...
Brazil’s former president arrested and ordered to begin prison sentence
Fernando Collor, who led the country from 1990 to 1992, was sentenced in 2023 after being convicted for corruption Brazil’s former president, Fernando Collor, has...
Green groups decry plan to list world’s biggest meatpacking company on NYSE
Critics fear decision to list Brazil-based firm JBS, long linked to Amazon’s deforestation, will add to the climate crisis Environmental groups are outraged that the...
‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’
Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians “John” was just days from turning 16...
