Brazil sinks aircraft carrier in Atlantic despite presence of asbestos and toxic materials
Environmental activists had sought to halt the planned scuttling of the warship, warning that it could pollute the marine food chain Brazil has sunk a...
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Bolsonaro attended meeting about plot to keep him in power, senator says
Senator says he was asked to get justice to make compromising comments on tape as Bolsonaro ‘sat in silence’ A close ally of Jair Bolsonaro...
Jair Bolsonaro applies for six-month tourist visa to stay in US
Ex-Brazil president who has been in Florida since 30 December is being investigated for attempt to topple country’s government Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, who...
Brazil: dozens of Indigenous children hospitalised amid health crisis
Health secretary of Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, says 59 children in hospital, 45 of them from the Yanomami people Dozens of Indigenous...
More journalists killed in Latin America and Caribbean than Ukraine in 2022
Committee to Protect Journalist reports region accounted for almost half of the 67 deaths worldwide More journalists were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean...
Brazilian police name alleged ‘mastermind’ behind murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Police chief says Rubens Villar Coelho, whose nickname is Colômbia, ordered the murders of the British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert Brazilian police have named...
Brazil’s female diplomats in new equality push after dark days of Bolsonaro
Movement to tackle lack of diversity within Brazil’s foreign office coincides with Lula’s return to power More than a century after Maria José de Castro...
Lula sacks head of Brazilian army after far-right insurrection
Júlio Cesar de Arruda reportedly stopped police detaining suspected rioters who took refuge outside army headquarters The head of the Brazilian army has been sacked...
Jair Bolsonaro accused of acts of genocide against Amazonian group
Brazilian president says predecessor emboldened wildcat miners which led to wrecked forests and disease and death among Indigenous people Brazil’s new president, Luiz Inácio Lula...
Lula to visit Brazil’s Yanomami Indigenous territory amid vow to tackle crisis
Move comes after country’s minister for Indigenous people says issue is an ‘absolute priority’ Brazil’s first-ever minister for Indigenous peoples, Sônia Guajajara, has vowed to...
