Brazil

2023 - 3 - 7

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Son retracts tweet announcing Bolsonaro's return to Brazil (Reuters)

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, on Tuesday wrote on Twitter his father would return to Brazil next week but ...

For months ahead of the vote, he had cast baseless doubts on the electoral system, creating a potent force of election deniers who on Jan. Bolsonaro lost the Oct. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

Brazil: plan for zero vegetation loss in the Cerrado (Nature.com)

The Cerrado covers 2 million square kilometres and is home to more than 5% of all Earth's known plant and vertebrate species. But agricultural monocultures have ...

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Son retracts tweet announcing Bolsonaro's return to Brazil (Al Arabiya English)

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, on Tuesday wrote on Twitter his father would return to Brazil next week but.

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Brazil police carry out more raids as part of Jan. 8 riots probe (Reuters)

They were serving three arrest warrants and eight search and seizure warrants in the states of Minas Gerais and Parana, a statement said. The raids represent ...

SAO PAULO, March 7 (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police said on Tuesday they were carrying out new raids as part of a probe into the Jan. The raids represent the seventh phase of an operation launched in They were serving three arrest warrants and eight search and seizure warrants in the states of Minas Gerais and Parana, a statement said.

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Brazil expresses concern about human rights violations in Nicaragua (Anadolu Agency)

UN Ambassador Tovar da Silva Nunes tells Rights Council Brazil is available for hundreds of Nicaraguans who have had their nationality removed - Anadolu ...

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. "By reaffirming its humanitarian commitment to the protection of stateless persons and the reduction of statelessness, the Brazilian government makes itself available to welcome the people affected by this decision under the special statute provided for in the Brazilian migration law." "The Brazilian government follows events in Nicaragua with utmost attention and is concerned with the reports of serious human rights violations and restrictions on democratic space in that country, in particular summary executions, arbitrary detentions and torture of political dissidents," said Da Silva Nunes.

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Brazil, Nicaragua struggle for dialogue (POST-COURIER)

BRASILIA: Brazil's leftist government, which has been reluctant to criticize Nicaragua's authoritarian president Daniel Ortega, will for the first time ...

At the same time, however, the Lula government wants to keep an open door to be a possible channel for dialogue, emphasising that Brazil is committed to democracy and wants to play a “constructive” role in solving the crisis in Nicaragua. The alternative text, which will be presented by Brazil’s ambassador to the US in Geneva, Tovar Nunes, will say that president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government follows with concern the persecution of opponents, the withdrawal of their rights and expulsions from the country. Brazilian diplomats took part in the negotiation of the declaration criticizing Nicaragua, but chose not to endorse it because it did not leave a door open for negotiations.

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Brazil Bethel—Supporting Spiritual Growth for a Century (JW.ORG)

An increasing number of people started to show interest in the magazine. So in March 1923, Brother J. F. Rutherford dispatched Brother George Young to the ...

In 1980, the branch relocated to the town of Cesário Lange, some 150 kilometers (93 mi) from São Paulo. In 1926, a small printing press was sent to Brazil from the World Headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. The history of the preaching work in Brazil goes as far back as the late 1890’s, when issues of Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence first began to be distributed in the country.

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