Brazil Wants to Abandon a 34,000-Ton Ship at Sea. It Would be an Environmental Disaster
Environmentalists say the Brazilian navy’s plan to abandon a massive aircraft carrier is a disaster for marine life.
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UK drops down global corruption index after string of scandals
Transparency International warns of UK’s ‘woeful inadequacies’ as Qatar, Russia and Brazil slide down listThe UK has fallen sharply down the global corruption league table after a report warned of “woeful inadequacies” in upholding political integrity….
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 governmentBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is facing investigation as part of an inquiry into alleged attempt to topple the…
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 peopleDozens of indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have been hospitalised in northern Brazil, with r…
Eccentric names the norm in Brazil but ‘Samba’ rejected as too outlandish
São Paulo registry office snubs music star Seu Jorge’s choice for newborn son, despite far more unusual names being accepted As the country that produced footballers called Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira and Élvis Vieira Araújo…
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 worldwideMore journalists were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean than in any other part of the world last year, including the Ukraine war zone, the press …
A Dilemma for Governments: How to Pay for Million-Dollar Therapies
A wave of transformative but hugely expensive treatments is challenging the budgets of health systems in wealthy nations. Now countries with far fewer resources are wrestling with how to cover the therapies.
Man Behind Amazon Murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira Caught in Brazil
Brazilian police officials accused an illegal fishing trafficker of ordering an assassination in June that left a British journalist and Brazilian activist dead deep in the Amazon.
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 expertBrazilian police have named the alleged mastermind behind the murders of the British journalist Dom Phillip…
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 powerMore than a century after Maria José de Castro Rebello Mendes became, in 1918, the first woman to enter Brazil’s diplomatic service, the country’s …