Brazil

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Brazil sets new six-month Amazon deforestation record

Federal Police officers carry a coffin containing human remains after a suspect confessed to killing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and led police to the location of remains, at the headquarters of the Federal Police, in Brasilia, Brazil, June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
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Tributes pour in for British reporter Dom Phillips, presumed killed in Amazon

Demonstrators hold signs during a protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's government, Brazil's National Indian Foundation (FUNAI)'s President Marcelo Augusto Xavier da Silva and for the search for British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who went missing while reporting in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon rainforest near the border with Peru, in Brasilia, Brazil June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
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Brazil police find remains in search for UK journalist, suspect confesses - investigators

Federal Police officers escort a man accused to be involved in the missing of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who went missing while reporting in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon rainforest, near the border with Peru, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
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Brazil police find remains in search for UK journalist, suspect confesses

Faruque Hassan. Illustration: TBS
Economy

Bangladesh, Brazil can bring more mutual trade benefits: BGMEA chief

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro and Hulk, played by Mark Ruffalo, in Avengers. Photo: HT
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Hulk star Mark Ruffalo's appeal to Biden gets sharp reply from Brazil President: ‘your masters…’

Demonstrators hold placards and roses as they protest following the disappearance, in the Amazon, of journalist Dom Phillips and campaigner Bruno Araujo Pereira, outside the Brazilian Embassy in London, Britain, June 9, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville
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Brazil police probe ties to illegal fishing in case of missing British journalist

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks while holding a bilateral meeting with Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro during the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 9, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
USA

Bolsonaro tilts towards closer Brazil-US ties at unlikely meeting with Biden

A man stands on the wreckage of a house collapsed during a landslide caused by heavy rains at Jardim Monte Verde, in Ibura neighbourhood, in Recife, Brazil, May 28, 2022. Diego Nigro/Prefeitura do Recife/Handout via REUTERS
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Death toll in Brazilian floods rises to 57, thousands displaced

Iracema Guimaraes da Costa, a local farmer, reacts as she wades through flood waters in front of her relatives' house, after several riverside villages were affected by flooding triggered by the rise of the river levels in Careiro da Varzea, in the Amazonas state, Brazil May 20, 2022. Reuters
World+Biz

Heavy rains in Brazil's northeast kill at least 35

A member of a group of residents of the Chapeu Mangueira slum, sprays alcohol on the hand of a homeless person as she delivers him food during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 11, 2020. Picture taken April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Landau
Global Economy

Risk of food insecurity threatens record 36% of Brazilian families

Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada, U.S. July 26, 2016. REUTERS/James Glover II//File Photo
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Elon Musk to meet with Brazil's Bolsonaro

FILE PHOTO: Former Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a rally in Recife, Brazil November 17, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
Politics

Lula launches presidential bid, says to defend Brazil's democracy