Death threats assail Brazil's trailblazing trans candidates as they campaign

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Benny Briolly beamed as she strode through the concrete favela alleyway in a snow-white dress, volunteers proudly waving campaign flags emblazoned with her face. The city councilwoman and nearly 1,000 other transgender politicians are running Sunday in every...

G20 environment ministers back funding for forest conservation

SAO PAULO (AP) — Environment ministers of the Group of 20 nations agreed Thursday to support the creation of funding sources for ecosystem services, acknowledging Brazil's proposal to establish a trust fund for forest conservation. The Brazilian initiative, known as the Tropical...

Are LGBTQ Jews welcome in Orthodox communities? This is how they are building spaces of their own

It was a heart-wrenching choice. But when Daniel Gammerman decided to never set foot back in an Orthodox synagogue, he thought of it as an act of love. Not toward the Jewish community he was born into, but to himself. “A synagogue is a spiritual place, but it’s also a community...

A plane carrying Brazil President Lula lands safely at Mexico City airport after circling for hours

ZUMPANGO, Mexico (AP) — An airplane carrying Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva back to Brasilia landed safely on Tuesday at Mexico City’s Felipe Angeles airport after circling for hours due to a technical problem. Brazil's air force confirmed the safe landing of the...

Brazil President Lula lands safely at Mexico airport after circling for hours, press secretary says

Brazil judge makes new requests to allow X to be reinstated from suspension

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Friday added conditions for Elon Musk’s X to have its service reestablished in the country, one day after the social media platform said it had complied with all the judge’s demands, including naming a legal...

X requests it be reinstated in Brazil after complying with judge's orders, sources say

SAO PAULO (AP) — In the high-stakes showdown between the world’s richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, Elon Musk blinked. Musk’s social media site X has complied with Alexandre de Moraes’ orders and requested its service be reestablished in the country, two...

Dramatic images show drought's toll on Amazon and its rivers

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows. Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how dramatically water is dwindling. When The Associated Press photographed...

Poll: Latin Americans view Pope Francis favorably. But the biggest drop is in his native Argentina.

Pope Francis is still widely popular in several Latin American countries. But the portion of people who still see him favorably in his native Argentina has plunged by almost 30 percentage points in a decade. Those are among the key findings in a report released Thursday by the Pew...

Unversed in UNGA? Stumped by SDGs? Here's a handy glossary of UN General Assembly meeting lingo

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly's yearly meeting of world leaders is here — and with it, an array of acronyms, abbreviations, titles and terms that can be confounding to observers. Here is some key vocabulary, decoded. For starters ... UNGA: Acronym...