Rio de Janeiro: Foreign ministers from the BRICS group of developing nations failed to reach a joint communique on Tuesday after meeting in Rio de Janeiro, but chair Brazil issued a statement speaking out against trade protectionism. In the statement, Brazil said the group’s foreign ministers expressed “serious concern at the prospect of a fragmented…
Amid a currently undefeated season with the first-place Orlando Pride and high-profile retirements from Alex Morgan and Christine Sinclair, Brazilian superstar Marta said she plans to play professional soccer for at least two more years. “I don’t know if I’m gonna be in Orlando. But my thought is like, play at least two more years,”…
Elon Musk’s platform X mistakenly transferred $5.2 million in fines (Representative Image/AP) Elon Musk’s social media platform X paid $5.2 million in fines after being banned by Brazil‘s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes over accusations of disinformation, but mistakenly transferred these funds into the wrong account.Justice Moraes confirmed that while the full amount had…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore authorities on Thursday charged a former CEO of Sembcorp Marine and an ex-senior general manager of one of the company’s unit with bribing Brazilian officials to advance the company’s interests in Brazil, according to a statement. The city-state’s Attorney-General’s Chambers and Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau said in the statement that ex-CEO…
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police are investigating why former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia last month right after his passport was seized in an investigation into an alleged military coup plot, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. The source, who spoke on…
RIO DE JANEIRO: A heat wave stifling Brazil set new records on Sunday, with Rio de Janeiro‘s heat index hitting 62.3 degrees Celsius, the highest in a decade, weather authorities said.The heat index measures what a temperature feels like, taking into account humidity. The actual maximum temperature in the city was 42 oC on Monday,…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Brazil have recommended that the country’s environment agency Ibama suspend blasting work in the bay of Paranagua port pending an investigation into the death of a diver, according to a statement on Wednesday. The statement called on Ibama to immediately suspend the license it had granted for the…
Bolsonaro currently faces various criminal probes that are close to reaching their conclusions. Brasilia: The former heads of Brazil’s Army and Air Force have confirmed to federal police that ex-President Jair Bolsonaro discussed a draft decree to prevent the handover of power after the 2022 election, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Their…
Everyone seems to have a slightly different estimate of how many people were outside the stadium on that strange November afternoon, but the consensus is that it was a lot. As the bus crept through the crowd, the Brazilian footballers on board stared out of the windows. Locals — tens of thousands of them, on…
Dani Alves, who was this morning sentenced to four and a half years in prison in Spain after being found guilty of sexual assault, was, until very recently, one of global football’s golden boys. An exuberant, technical right-back, he was a major part of the Barcelona team that set new standards in the European game…
