Be informed. Be challenged. Be inspired.

Brazil’s Lula leaves hospital, speaks publicly for first time since surgeries

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Reuters Doctors discharged Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from a Sao Paulo hospital on Sunday, after a pair of emergency surgeries last week to treat and prevent bleeding in his head. Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, waves while leaves the Sirio-Libanes Hospital after a surgery, in Sao […]

Bolsonaro’s indictment in Brazil stirs conservative Christian supporters’ outrage

São Paulo, Brazil RNS A report released on 26th November by Brazil’s federal police details a conspiracy allegedly involving former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others to stage a coup to prevent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from taking office in 2023. The list of 37 indicted individuals, which includes a Roman Catholic priest, […]

Brazil police report: Bolsonaro directly involved in 2022 coup plot

Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazil’s federal police presented evidence to the Supreme Court that former President Jair Bolsonaro was directly involved in plotting a coup to overturn the outcome of the 2022 election he lost, according to an 884-page report unsealed on Tuesday. That final police report, the result of a nearly two-year investigation, lays out […]

Brazil police accuse Bolsonaro and ex-ministers of 2022 coup plot

Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro plotted a coup to overturn the 2022 election along with dozens of ex-ministers and senior aides, federal police said in a formal accusation filed on Thursday with the country’s Supreme Court. The final police report caps a nearly two-year investigation into Bolsonaro’s role in the election-denying movement […]

Brazilian police uncover military plot to kill Lula before 2023 inauguration

Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested five people, including a member of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet, suspected of involvement in an alleged plan to kill then-President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022, days before he took office. Documents seized by police revealed a plan to shoot or poison Lula and his […]

Lula urges G20 leaders to move faster on net zero climate targets

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Reuters Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday urged leaders of the Group of 20 major economies to accelerate their national climate targets, calling on them to reach net zero climate emissions five to 10 years ahead of schedule. Opening the last session of the G20 summit in Rio […]

Rains return to flooded southern Brazil, interrupting rescues

Porto Alegre, Brazil Reuters Authorities interrupted rescue efforts in flood-ravaged southern Brazil on Wednesday amid more rain and the risk of lightning and stiff winds that threaten to exacerbate a catastrophe that has already killed at least 100 people and left over 163,000 seeking shelter. The floods that began last week, caused by unusually heavy […]