Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Jair Bolsonaro

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.

WEKU

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

The Independent UK

‘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 Guardian - US

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

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

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

The Independent UK

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.

France 24

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

The Independent UK

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 Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

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 Independent UK

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

The Hindu

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.

Tribune News Service

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

The Independent UK

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.

WEKU

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.

France 24

Former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro banned from running for office for eight years

Controversial former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been banned from running for office for eight years after a panel of judges found he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system.

Evening Standard

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - US

Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’

Electoral judges bar former far-right leader from running for office for eight years for ‘appalling lies’ during last year’s election

The Independent UK

Brazil court votes to bar Bolsonaro from elections until 2030

A panel of judges has voted to render far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible to run for office again after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system

Bangkok Post

Bolsonaro's political future in the balance as judges deliberate

BRASíLIA - Far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's political future hangs in the balance as a panel of seven judges weigh barring him from public office for years over attacks on Brazil's electoral system.

The Week

Deforestation and the state of the world’s rainforests

The ongoing destruction of the world’s rainforests sped up in 2022, putting worldwide promises to end deforestation by 2030 in serious doubt.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Hindu

Explained | Global tropical primary forest cover continued decline in 2022: study

Primary tropical forest cover continued to decrease at an alarming rate in 2022, making the goal of net zero deforestation by 2030 even more unattainable.

The Guardian - US

Amazon facing ‘urgent’ crime crisis after gutting of protections, says drugs tsar

Brazilian government warning comes as UN report says that flourishing organized crime groups are driving a boom in environmental devastation

Bangkok Post

Growing up trans in Brazil can be deadly

SAO PAULO: Wearing a pink dress that matches the bow in her hair, eight-year-old Agatha flashes a smile that belies all she has been through as a trans child growing up in Brazil.

The Guardian - UK

Destruction of world’s pristine rainforests soared in 2022 despite Cop26 pledge

An area of primary rainforest the size of Switzerland was felled last year suggesting world leaders’ commitment to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 is failing

Bangkok Post

Solving the global food crisis

When ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro came to power in January 2019, one of his first acts in office was to abolish the National Food and Nutrition Security Council (Consea), a globally lauded body that had reduced food insecurity. It was a huge step back for the country, which the UN…

The Independent UK

Political future of Brazil's Bolsonaro hangs in the balance as his trial begins

Brazil’s top electoral court has started hearing a case that could torpedo the political future of former President Jair Bolsonaro by rendering him ineligible for public office for eight years

WEKU

Bolsonaro goes on trial over electoral fraud claims that could bar him from elections

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro goes on trial Thursday, facing charges that he spread false information about Brazil's election system. He's also facing allegations that he abused his power.

1 … 29 30 31 32

People

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

1,162 stories

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Nongthombam Biren Singh

27 stories

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

International Monetary Fund

the Chamber of Deputies

10 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.