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Brazil’s top court evacuated after explosions ahead of G20
One man is dead and police have blocked all access to the area where the Supreme Court, Congress and presidential palace are located.
- by Anthony Boadle and Andre Romani
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Extraordinary and exotic: Why now is the time to visit South America
There are more flights and South America remains better value than Europe or the US. Here is our beginner’s guide to travelling around this continent of extremes.
- by Chris Moss and Julietta Jameson
Port guide: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
One of the world’s most vibrant cities in one of the world’s most beautiful settings will have you in the mood for sequins and samba.
- by Brian Johnston
Brazil seals $46 billion compensation deal with BHP, Vale over 2015 dam collapse
The agreement could end more than a hundred lawsuits against the mining companies in the South American country and possibly limit legal action abroad.
- by Lisandra Paraguassu
Unable to travel abroad, ‘pariah’ Putin has Xi, Modi come to him
The Russian president received the visitors at the historic Kazan Kremlin. He’s hosting a BRICS summit attended by 30 countries.
- by Valerie Hopkins and David Pierson
A ‘crazy’ new scheme to save world’s forests
What if stopping deforestation became a money spinner for developing countries?
- by Manuela Andreoni
A fetish website and claims of a sordid affair: Husband charged over double murder
The case has riveted the public, spawning true-crime podcast episodes and online chatter from the high-rises of Sao Paulo to the suburbs of Washington DC.
- by Annie Correal
A footvolley star dog is beating Rio beachgoers at their own game
The game is a combination of soccer and beach volleyball. The athlete? A three-year-old border collie named Floki.
- by David Biller
Musk’s troubles in Brazil grow as Starlink threatened
“The Brazilian judiciary may have given an important signal that the world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s far-right ideology just because he is rich,” Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
- by Daniel Carvalho
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The free-speech billionaires are losing the war
Elon Musk and Pavel Durov have been asking for trouble. It has found them.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Judge shuts down Musk’s X in Brazil
The move is the latest chapter in an ongoing feud between Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Elon Musk.
- by Gabriela Sá Pessoa and Mauricio Savarese
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