Tag: Brazil

Firefighter works to control fire in the Brazilian Amazon

Reading the Burned Leaves of the Amazon Forest: There’s Crisis in the Future

The Amazon is battling record early-year fires, fueling fears of a worse climate crisis ...

Pelé, seen here following Brazil's 1970 World Cup win, epitomized "the beautiful game" Image: Wikipedia

Can Brazil Soccer Get Its Beautiful Game Back?

Experts have long been warning that a sell-off of Brazilian talent is seriously damaging ...

Robinho must serve his nine-year jail sentence for rape in his native Brazil

Brazilian Justice Rules Robinho Will Serve Italian Nine-year Rape Sentence in Brazil

Brazilian judges have ruled to uphold former footballer Robinho’s Italian rape conviction, adding that ...

Brazil's ex Army chief Marco Antonio Freire Gomes beside former president Jair Bolsonaro

Top Military Men of Bolsonaro Throw Ex-President Under the Bus Over a Coup d’État

Two former Brazilian military commanders said former President Jair Bolsonaro discussed a possible coup ...

Heat waves killed 50,000 people in Brasil, in the last two decades

Brazil’s Killer Heat More Lethal to Blacks, Women and Older People

“The heat at night was too much; we couldn’t sleep,” says Evanice Auxiliadora da ...

Vieira said he was confident that Brazil's friendship with Israel would survive the behavior of the current government in Tel Aviv

Brazil Keeps Lula’s Line of Blaming Israel for Genocide and Blocking Humanitarian Aid

Brazil’s Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira told his country’s Senate Thursday that Israel’s “blockade of ...

“The leave is also intended to protect adoptive mothers and non-pregnant mothers in same-sex unions.”

Woman Married to Woman Entitled to Paternity Leave When Companion Gives Birth, Rules Brazil Supreme

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) ruled that non-pregnant women in same-sex unions are entitled ...