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• 'What he did was mass murder': little sympathy for Colombia plane crash pilot

  03-12-2016 11:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Miguel Quiroga’s father-in-law asked for forgiveness, as flight plan revealed inadequate fuel reserve for journey that killed most of a Brazilian football teamThe father-in-law of the pilot who was operating the charter flight which crashed in the Andes killing 71 people, has asked for forgiveness, amid growing evidence that the aeroplane embarked with barely enough fuel to complete the journey. Related: Chapecoense plane crash: fans' anger after confirmation plane ran out of fuelRelated:
  
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• 'It was like a movie': rescue operations under way as deadly floods hit Brazil – video

  10-05-2024 15:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Rescue operations are under way in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where devastating floods have killed more than 100 people. Soldiers rescued a man clinging to a fence in a flooded area in the city of Porto Alegre. Emergency workers also rescued a horse that had been trapped for days on a rooftop. More than 165,000 people have been displaced from flooded homes and rescued by boats and helicopters, with many taking refuge at makeshift sheltersBrazil is reeling from catastroph
  
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• Brazil is reeling from catastrophic floods. What went wrong – and what does the future hold?

  10-05-2024 13:33 via theguardian.com
  
  In the country’s south, up to half of the annual predicted rain fell in just 10 days – the third such event in a year. Experts say it is time to plan for a new normalPhotographs by Daniel MarencoWhen the torrential rain began to swallow her city block, Cristiane Batista, 34, grabbed her three children, a couple of backpacks and her smartphone and waited at the door, hoping to be picked up by the municipal trucks preparing to evacuate the population of Muçum, in the state of Ri
  
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• Horse stranded on roof by Brazil floods is rescued by emergency workers

  09-05-2024 23:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal dubbed ‘Caramelo’ was trapped for days, balancing on two strips of slippery asbestos after flooding hit the Porto Alegre areaEmergency workers have rescued a horse that had been trapped for days on a rooftop after severe floods in southern Brazil, as the death toll from the disaster rose to 107 people.The animal, dubbed Caramelo on social media, had been balancing on two narrow strips of slippery asbestos in Canoas, a city in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area that is one of t
  
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• Brazil floods: horse stranded on roof is rescued as death toll rises to 107 people

  09-05-2024 23:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal dubbed ‘Caramelo’ was trapped for days, balancing on two strips of slippery asbestos after flooding hit the Porto Alegre areaEmergency workers have rescued a horse that had been trapped for days on a rooftop after severe floods in southern Brazil, as the death toll from the disaster rose to 107 people.The animal, dubbed Caramelo on social media, had been balancing on two narrow strips of slippery asbestos in Canoas, a city in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area that is one of t
  
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• Brazil’s far right pilloried for Madonna outrage after figures spotted at concert

  08-05-2024 17:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Supporters of rightwing ex-president Jair Bolsonaro among 1.6m people at show despite conservative criticism of ‘satanist’ singerFor conservative supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, Madonna’s recent mega show in Rio had seemed the perfect opportunity to score points against what they see as the ungodly and morally degenerate left.After the Queen of Pop threw the biggest concert of her 40-year career on Copacabana beach on Saturday, one far-right congre
  
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• Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

  08-05-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Climate chaos is threatening food production, trade and lives, says World Meteorological OrganizationHunger and disease are rising in Latin America after a year of record heat, floods and drought, a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has shown.The continent, which is trapped between the freakishly hot Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, probably suffered tens of thousands of climate-related deaths in 2023, at least $21bn (£17bn) of economic damage and “the greatest calori
  
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• Flooding in Brazil: then and now – in pictures

  08-05-2024 11:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Devastating floods across the state of Rio Grande do Sul have about 90 dead and survivors seeking food and shelterBrazil flooding death toll rises to 90 Heavy rains that began last week have caused rivers to flood, inundating whole towns and destroying roads and bridges across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The local civil defence agency said the death toll has risen to 90, while 131 people are still unaccounted for and 155,000 are homeless. A state of emergency has been decl
  
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• Brazil floods: footage shows airport under water as death toll rises – video

  08-05-2024 08:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Drone footage showed a flooded airport and stadium in the city of Porto Alegre, as the death toll after heavy rains in southern Brazil climbed to at least 90, with more than 130 people still missing. Rain has flooded huge stretches of Rio Grande do Sul state, displacing more than 155,000 people and affecting an estimated 1.3 million, according to local authoritiesBrazil flooding death toll rises to 90 as more than 155,000 people displaced Continue reading...
  
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• Brazil flooding death toll rises to 90 as more than 155,000 people displaced

  07-05-2024 21:38 via theguardian.com
  
  At least 361 injured and 131 missing in southern part of country from what governor called his state’s ‘biggest climate catastrophe’The death toll from what authorities call the worst climate disaster ever to strike southern Brazil has risen to 90, after ferocious rain flooded huge stretches of Rio Grande do Sul state, displacing more than 155,000 people and forcing the closure of the main airport in the country’s fifth biggest city.Photographs of the Porto Alegre airport
  
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• ‘Magical moment’ as fire-ravaged Brazil museum receives big fossil donation

  07-05-2024 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Collection of more than 1,000 fossils including rare dinosaurs given to National Museum in Rio six years after devastating blazeNearly six years after it was engulfed by a devastating fire that inflicted incalculable damage on Brazil’s cultural heritage, the country’s national museum has received an important donation of more than a thousand fossils as part of a campaign to help rebuild the collection lost to the flames.The fire, caused by an electrical short-circuit on the night of
  
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• Brazil floods: Lula flies over Rio Grande do Sul as army races to rescue stranded families – video

  06-05-2024 11:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, flew with several cabinet members over the southern Rio Grande do Sul state to witness the floods that have killed at least 75 people.Footage show helicopter crews rescuing families including babies from rooftops. More than 100 people were missing on Sunday, according to local officialsFlooding death toll in south Brazil rises to 75 Continue reading...
  
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• Weather tracker: torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil

  06-05-2024 09:32 via theguardian.com
  
  This part of South America is no stranger to major rainfall, but last week’s storms were particularly devastatingTorrential rainstorms in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have caused the worst flooding the country has seen in 80 years, with many deaths and thousands of families displaced. Central parts of the state were worst-hit after the storms began last Monday, with unofficial weather stations in the area recording 20-40in over the past week.Widespread floods and
  
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• Flooding death toll in south Brazil rises to 75 as over 100 people remain missing

  05-05-2024 18:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Officials in Rio Grande do Sul state say more than 80,000 have been displaced by record water levelsSeventy-five people are now known to have died in the flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, while more than 100 people remain missing, local authorities said on Sunday.The state’s civil defence authority said 101 people were unaccounted for and more than 80,000 had been displaced after record-breaking floods swept across the state, which borders Uruguay and Argentina.
  
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• Flooding death toll in south Brazil rises to 66 as over 100 people remain missing

  05-05-2024 18:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Officials in Rio Grande do Sul state say more than 80,000 have been displaced by record water levelsSixty-six people are now known to have died in the flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, while more than 100 people remain missing, local authorities said on Sunday.The state’s civil defence authority said 101 people were unaccounted for and more than 80,000 had been displaced after record-breaking floods swept across the state, which borders Uruguay and Argentina. Con
  
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• Free Madonna concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil’s Copacabana beach

  05-05-2024 10:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Area around Rio de Janeiro beach filled for several blocks as singer closes her Celebration world tourMore than a million people have thronged Brazil’s Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert, braving the heat to see the end of her Celebration world tour.The sand and oceanfront boulevard around Rio de Janeiro’s famed beach were filled for several blocks on Saturday night by a crowd the city estimated at 1.6 million. Continue reading...
  
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• Death toll from rains in southern Brazil rises to 57

  04-05-2024 19:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds of cities across Rio Grande so Sul hit by floods with 32,000 people displaced and infrastructure destroyedThe death toll from rains in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to 57, local authorities said on Saturday afternoon, while dozens still have not been accounted for.The state’s civil defence authority said 67 people were still missing and more than 32,000 had been displaced as storms affected nearly two-thirds of the 497 cities in the state. Contin
  
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• Aerial footage shows scale of flooding in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul – video

  03-05-2024 21:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Footage shows a flooded area in Rio Grande do Sul state after heavy rains have caused massive destruction in the region. Torrential downpours in the southern Brazilian state have killed dozens of people, with more than 70 still missing, as record-breaking floods devastated cities and forced thousands to leave their homesBrazil: 37 killed and dozens missing in worst floods in 80 years Continue reading...
  
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• Brazil: 37 killed and dozens missing in worst floods in 80 years

  03-05-2024 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 23,000 people forced to leave homes after heavy rains in southern Rio Grande do Sul prompt record-breaking floodsHeavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed 37 people, with another 74 still missing, as record-breaking floods devastated cities and forced thousands to leave their homes.It was the fourth such environmental disaster in a year, following floods in July, September and November that killed 75 people in total. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It’s so frustrating’: two years on and still no justice for Bruno and Dom murders

  03-05-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Three men await trial in Brazil for the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, but no date is set and Amazon activists still live in fear of violenceNearly two years after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered during a reporting trip in the Brazilian Amazon their families are still waiting for justice and activists fear their deaths will not be the last.The British journalist and the Brazilian Indigenous expert were ambushed and killed on 5 June 2022 while travelling by boat to the ri
  
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• ‘I wasn’t worried about what gringos wanted!’ Ludmilla, Brazil’s next pop superstar

  30-04-2024 16:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Already the most listened-to Black artist in Brazil and a favourite of Beyoncé, Ludmilla has a whole new audience after her viral Coachella show. She discusses the racism and homophobia she’s had to face getting this farIn between her two-weekend debut at Coachella earlier this month, while the first concert was going viral, the Brazilian singer Ludmilla did business meetings, spent a day in Miami and kicked off new music projects. This interview took place on her way back from a sh
  
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• Mining firm BHP offers $25.7bn settlement for Brazil dam disaster

  29-04-2024 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Australian company and its partner Vale unleashed largest spill of mining waste in historyThe mining company BHP has said it hopes to secure a $25.7bn (£20bn) settlement over the 2015 Samarco disaster, when the collapse of a dam left at least 19 people dead, 700 homeless and spread unprecedented levels of pollutants across the rivers and landscape of Brazil.BHP said it had offered the settlement to the Brazilian authorities in partnership with fellow miner Vale, its 50:50 joint venture par
  
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• Portuguese government rejects president’s suggestion of slavery reparations

  28-04-2024 12:42 via theguardian.com
  
  President advocated ‘paying the costs’ of colonial-era crimes but government said focus was deepening international cooperationThe Portuguese government has dismissed suggestions from the country’s president that it should “pay the costs” for slavery and other colonial-era crimes, saying it has no plans for reparations and will instead focus on deepening international cooperation “based on the reconciliation of brotherly peoples”.Campaigners have long ap
  
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• ‘My hands went cold’: Rio’s reporters risk death to reveal criminal ties between police, politicians and mafia

  28-04-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The killing of councillor Marielle Franco has inspired a generation of journalists to probe the city’s dangerous underworldRafael Soares’s phone rang and his blood froze. “Ronnie Lessa Googled you,” a federal police contact on the other end of the line told the Brazilian reporter as he stood in his newsroom one morning in 2019.Any Rio crime journalist worth their salt knew that being investigated by such a man was extremely bad news. Lessa was reputedly one of the city&rs
  
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• Portugal rejects suggestion to pay reparations for slavery after comments from president

  28-04-2024 05:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Statement from government contradicts stance taken by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who said Portugal should not put issue ‘in a drawer’Portugal’s government has said it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, contrary to earlier comments from President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 million Africans were kidnapped and forcibly transported across the Atlantic by Portu
  
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• Portugal rejects proposal to pay reparations for slavery after comments from president

  28-04-2024 05:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Statement from government contradicts stance taken by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who said Portugal should not put issue ‘in a drawer’Portugal’s government has said it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, contrary to earlier comments from President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 million Africans were kidnapped and forcibly transported across the Atlantic by Portu
  
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• World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

  25-04-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis‘Why we need a global tax on billionaires’The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested.In a sign of growing international support for a levy o
  
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• Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires

  25-04-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Finance chiefs say higher taxes for the super-rich are key to battling global inequality and climate crisisBillionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministersWhen the governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund convened for the spring meetings last week, it was all about the really big questions. What can the international community do to accelerate decarbonisation and fight climate change? How can highly indebted countries retain fiscal space to invest in povert
  
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• Portugal needs to ‘pay the costs’ of slavery and colonialism, says president

  24-04-2024 16:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Critics of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa say behind remarks is lack of national recognition that slavery should be discussed in schoolsPortugal needs to “pay the costs” of slavery and other colonial-era crimes, the country’s president has said, in a rare instance of a European leader seemingly backing the need for reparations.Portugal has long grappled with calls by campaigners to address its legacy as the European country with the longest historical involvement in the slave trade. D
  
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• Bolsonaro supporters hit streets of Rio and hail new hero Elon Musk

  21-04-2024 20:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Owner of X has used social media platform to bash judge in charge of investigations into former presidentThousands of diehard supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro have hit the streets of Rio to champion their embattled leader and celebrate the new hero of their far-right movement: Elon Musk.The tech billionaire has spent recent weeks using his social network X to bash Bolsonaro’s arch-enemy, the supreme court judge Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes is responsible for seve
  
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