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Brazil: at least 44 killed in a week of deadly police operations in three states

Nine people were killed Wednesday in a police operation targeting criminal gangs in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said, the latest in a week of security force raids that have left at least 44 dead across Brazil.

France 24

Dozens dead as police carry out raids in Brazil amid crackdown on criminals

Nine people were killed as police raided a favela in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday

Evening Standard

Amazon deforestation falls over 60% compared with last July, says Brazilian minister

Marina Silva welcomes progress but says climate crisis means upcoming regional summit needs to produce real action

The Guardian - UK

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At least eight dead following alleged revenge attack by São Paulo police

Brazil authorities call for investigation after hundreds of police officers were deployed in response to the killing of an officer

The Guardian - US

Brazil's Indigenous chief fighting to save Amazon urges President Lula to defend people's rights

An Indigenous leader who became a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon has called upon Brazil’s president to defend the rights of Indigenous people, including removing “invaders” from their territories and ending ongoing negotiations on carbon credits

The Independent UK

Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro fades from the spotlight

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is fading from the spotlight, showing the courts’ power over the electoral system and the political shortcomings of the increasingly powerless former leader

The Independent UK

‘Football’s little ladies’: Brazilian girls prepare for future Women’s World Cups

Daminhas da Bola cuts through the engrained sexism of Brazilian society and trains tomorrow’s football superstars

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Brazil's Lula places new restrictions on gun ownership, reversing predecessor's pro-gun policy

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a decree tightening restrictions on civilian access to guns in Brazil, in a move aimed at reversing the pro-firearms policies of his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro

The Independent UK

Sexual violence against women and children reached all-time high in Brazil in 2022 – report

Experts believe numbers partly reflect effects of lockdowns and trickling down of Jair Bolsonaro’s ultra-conservative views

The Guardian - US

Judicial activism has had vastly different impacts in Brazil and the United States

Earlier this summer, Brazil’s top electoral court banned former president Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years. Bolsonaro is 68 and will be unable to run for president until he’s 75.

The Conversation

EU and Latin American leaders hold a summit hoping to rekindle relationship with long-lost friends

European Union and Latin American leaders are gathering for a major summit of long-lost relatives

The Independent UK

‘It’s party time’: Jair Bolsonaro opens themed online store

Products include ‘party kits’ with hats, cake decorations and banners bearing Brazilian ex-president’s face

The Guardian - UK

Brazilian leaders praise a 34% drop in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon

The decrease began in January after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro left office and leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in.

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Brazil's lower house finds compromise in a major reform of the country's ‘dysfunctional’ tax system

Brazil’s lower house of Congress has approved a major reform of the nation’s notoriously complicated tax system, showing compromise is possible between the conservative Congress and leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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‘It’s been a pretty weird adventure’: Ritchie, the unlikely British pop star beloved by Brazil

Richard Court barely spoke Portuguese when he moved to Brazil. Forty years after his smash first single, he’s celebrated as one of the country’s most successful singers

The Independent UK

Deforestation of Amazon down by a third in 2023 after Bolsonaro’s defeat, says Brazil government

‘We reversed the curve, deforestation isn’t increasing’

France 24

Lula's first six months reverse Amazon deforestation trend under Bolsonaro

The rate of deforestation since Lula Ignacio de Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president has dropped by 34%. Protecting the Amazon had been one of his campaign promises.

The Independent UK

In Lula’s first six months, Brazil Amazon deforestation dropped 34%

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest dropped 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, providing an encouraging sign for his administration's environmental efforts

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The Conversation

The forgotten Amazon: as a critical summit nears, politicians must get serious about deforestation in Bolivia

When asked to situate the world’s most iconic rainforest on a map, most people will pinpoint Brazil. And given the intense media coverage of the country’s deforestation and fires – concerns reached a peak under former president Jair Bolsonaro and his free-for-all approach – they might also imagine a thick…

The Independent UK

Amazon Indigenous are leaving rainforest for cities, and finding urban poverty

Thousands of Amazon Indigenous are leaving their rainforest villages in a migration to urban areas that is reshaping their lives, their villages and their new cities

The Hindu

Morning Digest | Manipur Chief Minister Biren Sigh drops his resignation plan; France boosts police presence to quell ‘unacceptable’ riots, and more

The Hindu’s Morning Digest brings readers a select list of stories to start the day

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Bolsonaro to be banned from public office in Brazil for eight years

A majority of Brazil’s electoral court voted to bar Jair Bolsonaro from public office for eight years in the first major legal rebuke of the former president, whose efforts to sow doubt about the 2022 election have now put his political future at risk.

The Independent UK

Judges ban Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years

Former president will only be able to seek elected office again in 2030 – when he is 75

WEKU

A Brazil court has banned Bolsonaro from running for election until 2030

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from office for eight years for abuse of power, after he made unfounded claims about Brazil's voting system ahead of last year's election.

France 24

Brazil court bars former president Bolsonaro from politics for eight years

Brazil's Superior Electoral Tribunal on Friday barred far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro from politics for eight years over his unfounded claims of security flaws in the country's voting system before his election loss last year.

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