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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year
AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 square miles), roughly...
Voters in Brazil's largest city reelect mayor, who detaches from Bolsonaro after tumultuous campaign
SAO PAULO (AP) — Voters in Brazil’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, reelected Mayor Ricardo Nunes on Sunday following a tumultuous campaign that had pitted him against a leftist ally of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Nunes, who received lukewarm support from former President Jair...
Criminals may be leveraging climate change as record acreage burns in Brazil's Amazon
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to recover, if it ever does, according to a new satellite assessment. The breadth of forest that has been lost or degraded was revealed as...
Gunman kills 3 people in southern Brazil during hours-long shootout
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A 45-year-old man in southern Brazil barricaded himself in a house and killed his father, brother and a police officer in an hours-long shootout before he himself was fatally shot, authorities said Wednesday. Nine other people were injured. The incident in...
Brazil federal police seek extradition of Bolsonaro supporters from Argentina
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police requested the extradition of dozens of people who had fled the country after being accused of storming top government offices last year, in an alleged bid to forcefully restore former President Jair Bolsonaro to office, two sources familiar with the...
Sao Paulo mayor's race heads to a runoff without a controversial outsider in Brazil's elections
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Incumbent Ricardo Nunes and leftist lawmaker Guilherme Boulos will face each other in a runoff to decide the next mayor of Sao Paulo, following a first round of voting Sunday in Brazil’s local elections. Nunes, Boulos and self-help guru turned far-right...
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...
A Sao Paulo mayoral candidate is treated in hospital after a rival attacks him with a chair
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A candidate in Sao Paulo ’s mayoral race was treated and released Monday from a hospital after one of his five rivals in a televised debate slammed him with a metal chair following references to allegations of sexual misconduct. Pablo Marçal, a personal...
Brazil's Lula pledges to finish paving road that experts say could worsen Amazon deforestation
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — In a visit to see the damage caused by drought and fire in the Amazon, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pledged to pave a road that environmentalists and some in his own government say threatens to vastly increase destruction of the world’s largest tropical forest...
Brazil's X ban drives outraged Bolsonaro supporters to rally for 'free speech'
SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro flooded Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally Saturday, buoyed by the government's blocking of tech billionaire Elon Musk's X platform, a ban they say is proof of their political...
