Brazil football star Neymar backs far-right Bolsonaro days before election
Paris Saint-Germain forward posts video in support of far-right president, who is trailing badly in polls ahead of Sunday’s vote The Brazilian football star Neymar...
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More than 1,700 environmental activists murdered in the past decade – report
Figures likely to be an underestimate, says Global Witness, as land defenders are killed by hitmen, crime groups and governments More than 1,700 murders of...
World’s central banks financing destruction of the rainforest
Corporate bonds intended to inject liquidity into markets profited companies engaged in deforestation Some of the world’s biggest central banks are unwittingly helping to finance...
Bolsonaro tries red scare tactics in Brazil election by raising spectre of Nicaragua
Brazil’s far-right president claims that leftwing rival Lula will repress clergy like Ortega but so far with little apparent success More than 4,000km and an...
Bolsonaro uses visit to London for Queen’s funeral as ‘election soapbox’
Speaking from the balcony of his ambassador’s home, Brazilian president rounds on leftists, abortion and ‘gender ideology’ Death of the Queen and King Charles’s accession...
Bolsonaro fan stabs Lula supporter as Brazil election turns deadly
Political violence breaks out in Mato Grosso state after argument between followers of rival presidential candidates A supporter of Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has...
Lula vows to take on Amazon crime if returned to power in Brazil elections
Ex-president says he will clamp down on illegal miners and loggers after murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira The leading candidate to become Brazil’s...
Heart of Brazil’s first emperor returns after nearly 200 years for ‘state visit’
Pedro I declared independence from Portugal in 1822, and relic is now at the centre of politically charged election year celebrations Nearly two centuries after...
Leading grain traders ‘sourcing soy beans from Brazilian farm linked to abuse’
Bunge and Cargill, behind more than 30% of soy exports to EU and UK, accused of exposing suppliers to link with indigenous rights violations Two...
Lula says Bolsonaro ‘possessed by devil’ as he launches Brazil election campaign
Leftwing frontrunner counters far-right president’s efforts to demonize him with evangelical voters in bitterly divided country Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has...
