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Two bodies found in search for missing journalist and expert, says Brazilian embassy
The Brazilian embassy in London says two bodies have been found in the search for missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.
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At least 20 dead as floods devastate northeast Brazil
At least 20 people have been killed in heavy flooding in northeast Brazil that’s forced thousands of people from their homes.
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President Bolsonaro is ‘the most responsible for cataclysmic event’ says Duke University’s Dr Miguel Nicolelis
Dr Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University tells us that the P1 Manaus variant of Covid currently ravaging Brazil is a threat to the world.
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Brazil’s Covid-19 catastrophe may threaten world as new variant spreads
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is being blamed for his country’s deadliest episode of the pandemic yet – with a highly transmissible variant, and warnings from doctors reporting more young people being admitted to hospitals with the virus than ever before.
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Brazil’s health system ‘bedlam’ as daily Covid deaths reach record high amid variants fear
To Brazil now, where a record number of Covid deaths – more than 3,700 – were reported yesterday, leaving large parts of its health system now close to collapse.
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Brazil medics fear Covid-19 peak is yet to come – as deaths toll nears 36,000
Brazil has the second most confirmed cases in the world after the US, and as the country’s death toll nears 36,000, medics fear the peak is yet to come.
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Bolsonaro’s Brazil becomes coronavirus hotspot
The Brazilian President is struggling to explain why his country is fast becoming one of the worst casualties of the virus.
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Brazil dam collapse: 400 people still missing
Rescuers in Brazil are searching for any survivors after a huge dam collapsed – unleashing a cascade of mine waste and mud. At least nine people are dead and 400 still missing after the disaster struck at the Vale iron ore mine near Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil yesterday lunchtime. Officials say there’s now little chance…
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Bolsonaro ahead in polls as Brazilians prepare to vote
Less than ten days before an election that’s divided Brazil, the populist far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro still holds a commanding lead over his rival. Latest polls show Mr Bolsonaro, a former army officer with extreme views on gay and minority rights and law enforcement, is set to take 59 percent of the vote in the run-off next Sunday.
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Rights group files war crimes charges against Sri Lankan ambassador
The Sri Lankan government has denied its ambassador to Brazil is on the run, after a human rights group filed war crimes charges against him there.
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Conditions inside Brazil’s prisons
A series of riots in jails across Brazil in recent months have left dozens of prisoners dead. The incidents, in a country with the third largest prison population in the world, have raised serious questions about conditions and staffing in Brazil’s jails.
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Brazil mourns plane crash dead
More than a hundred thousand people in the Brazilian town of Chapeco have turned out to mourn the 71 people who died in a plane crash in Colombia – including most of the local football team. The Brazilian president led tributes to the victims at the ceremony in driving rain – saying the tragedy had…
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Colombia plane crash leaves at least 75 dead
Brazil has begun three days of national mourning after a charter plane carrying one of its top football teams crashed into the Colombian mountains, killing 75 people on board and leaving six survivors.
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Zika virus ‘spreading explosively’ says world health expert
The director-general of the World Health Organisation warns that possible links between the Zika virus and babies with abnormally small heads are causing “extremely high” levels of concern.
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Zika virus epidemic prompts Latin America travel warning
Pregnant women are advised to avoid countries that have seen outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which doctors are linking to unusually high numbers of babies born with brain defects.