America Brazil In Brazil’s recent municipal elections, a record 256 Indigenous candidates won positions as mayors, vice mayors, and councilors, marking an 8% increase, with Indigenous votes rising as other demographics saw declines
America Brazil Over 2.000 betting sites, including sponsors of major football clubs, have been shut down in the effort of enforcing new regulations combatting fraud, money laundering, and unresponsible gambling
America Brazil Lymphatic filariasis has been successfully eliminated as a public health problem in Brazil, a significant achievement in combating neglected tropical diseases; this accomplishment, recognized by the WHO, comes after decades of efforts
America Brazil Brazil fined Elon Musk’s companies, including X and Starlink, 5 million reais (US$920.000) after some users in Brazil briefly regained access to the platform X despite a court-imposed ban
America Brazil Tupinambá indigenous people celebrated in Rio de Janeiro the return of a sacred cloak that had been in Europe for nearly 380 years, marking a significant cultural homecoming after centuries of absence
America Brazil A Supreme Court justice has ordered the "immediate suspension" of the social media platform X, former Twitter, in Brazil until the company complies with all court orders, including the identification of a legal representative and payment of fines
America Brazil This week Brazil has deployed nearly 1.500 firefighters to combat severe Amazon forest fires, worsened by the region's worst drought in decades
America Brazil A Voepass plane carrying 61 people crashed into a residential area in Sao Paulo, killing everyone on board, with no ground casualties reported; an investigation is underway, and President Lula has declared three days of national mourning
America Brazil Rebeca Andrade won a silver medal in the individual all-around gymnastics at the Paris Olympics, adding to her bronze in the team event and making her Brazil's female Olympian with most medals
America Brazil Sharks off the coast of Brazil tested positive for cocaine, with numerous Brazilian sharpnose sharks showing drug levels up to 100 times higher than previously reported for aquatic creatures, highlighting the level of drug pollution in the ocean
America Brazil Quilombola communities have been included in a Brazilian census for the first time, providing essential data to support public policies and enhance access to health and education for these marginalized groups, totaling a population of 1,3 million
America Brazil A UK court will shortly decide whether companies Broken Hill Proprietary and Vale are liable of the 2015 Fundão dam collapse in Brazil, which killed 19 people, destroyed homes, and released arsenic-laced mud over 650 kilometers, causing widespread damage
America Brazil With fewer than 100 individuals left, Brazilian conservationists are racing to save the Muñoa’s Pampas cat, one of the world’s most endangered felines, by promoting habitat-preserving ranching, captive-breeding programs, and conservation agreements