75 m. ago Brazil’s former President arrested over escape plan days before starting 27

Bolsonaro is an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has called his trial a ‘witch hunt’

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2 h. ago Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee

Move comes after fears the far-right former president was about to seek refuge at a foreign embassy to avoid prisonBrazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília , amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup.In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers had executed a preventive arrest warrant at the request of the supreme court. The 70-year-old politician was taken to a federal police base, 7 miles from the presidential palace he occupied from 2019 until 2022, when he lost the election and tried to launch a military coup. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister

Sonia Guajajara tells Cop30 the rights of traditional communities must be maintained in the face of exploitation by the mining industryCountries must recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as a key component of tackling the climate crisis, and civil society must help in the defence of such lands against mining interests, Brazil’s minister for Indigenous peoples has said.Sonia Guajajara, a longtime Indigenous activist before being appointed a minister by President Lula da Silva, said: “[Among the goals of the Cop30 summit is] a request that countries recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as climate policy.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Politicians actually taking action’: five world mayors defying climate

From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are introducing their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperaturesWooden stakes bearing pictures of young men were driven into the yellow sands of Copacabana beach this week, opposite Rio de Janeiro’s swanky hotels on Avenida Atlântica where 300 mayors and their entourages were staying during the C40 World Mayors Summit.Smiling up at the mayors in their hotel suites were photographs of four officers killed in what was the deadliest police raid in Brazilian history, just a few days before the summit. A further 117 people were killed in the operation in two of Rio’s largest clusters of favelas – the Complexo do Alemão and the Complexo da Penha – in what the police said was a clampdown on organised crime. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate

From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are introducing their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperaturesWooden stakes bearing pictures of young men were driven into the yellow sands of Copacabana beach this week, opposite Rio de Janeiro’s swanky hotels on Avenida Atlântica where 300 mayors and their entourages were staying during the C40 World Mayors Summit.Smiling up at the mayors in their hotel suites were photographs of four officers killed in what was the deadliest police raid in Brazilian history, just a few days before the summit. A further 117 people were killed in the operation in two of Rio’s largest clusters of favelas – the Complexo do Alemão and the Complexo da Penha – in what the police said was a clampdown on organised crime. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brazil to seek independent inquiry into deadly police raid that killed 121 people

Brazilian president Lula called police assault on two of Rio’s largest clusters of favelas ‘disastrous’ and a ‘massacre’Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said his government will seek an independent investigation into what he called a “disastrous” police “massacre” that left at least 121 people dead.Four officers and at least 117 others were killed when police launched a major assault on two of Rio’s largest clusters of favelas, the Complexo do Alemão and the Complexo da Penha, early last Tuesday to execute 100 arrest warrants. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid

Demonstrators demand inquiry after operation on Tuesday in which at least 121 people were killedThousands of protesters have gathered in the Rio favela that this week suffered the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history to demand an inquiry into the killings and an end to security policies that have turned working-class neighbourhoods into “war zones”.At least 121 people, including four police officers, were killed on Tuesday during a police assault on the Complexo da Penha and the Complexo do Alemão, two large tapestries of favelas in north Rio. The operation made global headlines when scores of mutilated bodies were dumped at the entrance to one of those favelas. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Thousands of officers and military' drafted in ahead of Prince William's visit to Rio over fears 'violence will erupt' after 132 killed in police 'massacre'

Believed to be Rio police's deadliest operation ever, Tuesday's raid saw 2,500 police and soldiers storm the favelas of Penha and Complexo de Alemao and fight armed residents who fought back

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3 w. ago Brazilian police favela raid leaves 132 dead in bloody 'clear out' days before Prince William's visit

Over 40 dead bodies were seen on a street in Rio de Janeiro's Penha favela complex on Wednesday, a day after the most lethal police operation in the city's history targeting a major gang.

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3 w. ago Brazilian police favela raid leaves 64 dead in bloody 'clear out' days before Prince William's visit

Over 40 dead bodies were seen on a street in Rio de Janeiro's Penha favela complex on Wednesday, a day after the most lethal police operation in the city's history targeting a major gang.

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4 w. ago Glam influencer, 23, 'on the run' after being accused of 'running major drug gang'

Melissa Said, 23, regularly posed in barely-there bikinis for her 341,000 social media followers. Now, she is being hunted by Brazilian police investigating a drug trafficking gang

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