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• ‘This is your mission’: why one Brazilian doctor is training to be a shaman

  19-03-2025 06:00
  Adana Omágua Kambeba fought to become one of the country’s first Indigenous woman doctors. Now she wants to bring the worlds of traditional and western medicine closer– and help Amazonian communities in the processAdana Omágua Kambeba was still a little girl when adults started coming to her for advice, asking how to deal with their problems. She liked to speak to plants and to smoke, puzzling the elders. No one had taught her that – it came naturally.When she rea
  
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• Countries must bolster climate efforts or risk war, Cop30 chief executive warns

  18-03-2025 08:00
  
  Ana Toni also criticises the UK’s plans to slash overseas aid to fund defence spendingCountries looking to boost their national security through rearmament or increased defence spending must also bolster their climate efforts or face more wars in the future, one of the leaders of the next UN climate summit has warned.Some countries could decide to include climate spending in their defence budgets, suggested Ana Toni, Brazil’s chief executive of the Cop30 summit. Continue reading...
  
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• Cop30 in talks to hire PR firm that worked for lobby seeking weaker Amazon protections

  17-03-2025 17:00
  
  Revealed: Edelman worked for Brazilian trade group accused of pushing for environmental rollbacks in AmazonEdelman, the world’s largest public relations agency, is in talks to work with the Cop30 team organising the UN climate summit in the Amazon later this year despite its prior connections to a major trade group accused of lobbying to roll back measures to protect the area from deforestation, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.The summit is set to take place in
  
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• Behind Closed Doors review – Brazil’s descent into authoritarianism laid brutally bare

  17-03-2025 10:00
  João Pedro Bim’s documentary juxtaposes propagandist newsreel footage with 1960s audio recordings of the military dictatorship debating legalised tortureIn December 1968, the cabinet of Brazil’s ruling military dictatorship gathered for a classified meeting which resulted in the issuance of Institutional Act No 5, a decree that stripped dissenting citizens of their civil rights and led to a blood-soaked period of forced disappearances, torture and extra-judicial killings. Whil
  
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• Mothers demand justice as London case over Brazil dam collapse concludes

  13-03-2025 21:16
  
  Nineteen people died in the Mariana disaster, prompting a claim of up to £36bn claim against the mining firm BHPWith tears in their eyes, mothers of children who died in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster – the 2015 Mariana dam collapse – demanded justice for their loved ones as submissions in their London lawsuit came to an end on Thursday.Nineteen people were killed when the Mariana dam in south-eastern Brazil collapsed and unleashed a wave of toxic sludge, leaving t
  
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• The Long Wave: From aseeda to Vimto, Ramadan traditions across the diaspora

  12-03-2025 13:17
  
  In my experience, to fast in a non-majority Muslim country is to withdraw into a type of social hermitage. Plus, 100 years of Black British musicHello and welcome to The Long Wave. It is halfway through the month of Ramadan, and this week I have been chatting to fasting family, friends and colleagues across the diaspora about what people don’t know about the Muslim holy month, and what questions we are constantly asked (yes, not even water).But first, the weekly roundup. Continue reading..
  
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• US will be ‘central’ to climate fight even without Trump, says Cop30 president

  10-03-2025 17:11
  André Corrêa do Lago suggests US organisations can play a constructive role even if government limits participationThe US will be “central” to solving the climate crisis despite Donald Trump’s withdrawal of government support and cash, the president of the next UN climate summit has said.André Corrêa do Lago, president-designate of the Cop30 summit for the host country, Brazil, hinted that businesses and other organisations in the US could play a const
  
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• The Long Wave: Trinidad and Tobago carnival celebrates African roots

  05-03-2025 13:26
  
  Soca veterans join forces with Afrobeats stars as the diaspora strengthens ties with the motherland. Plus, Angela Davis heads to LondonHello and welcome to The Long Wave. In our launch edition, I wrote about how one of the things I missed in the media landscape was the ability to simply meet others across the Black diaspora. In the months since, this newsletter has been that place for me, but never more so than this week, when I spoke to Natricia Duncan, our Caribbean correspondent, about this y
  
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• Brazil fights Harvard to reclaim African rebel’s skull after 190 years

  05-03-2025 13:00
  The remains were taken to the US during a revolt led by Muslim slavesIn January 1835, wearing religious robes and carrying amulets inscribed with prayers and passages from the Qur’an, hundreds of African Muslims staged the most significant urban slave revolt in the more than 350 years of slavery in Brazil.About 600 Malês – as Muslims of Yoruba origin were known – attempted to seize control of Salvador, the capital of the Bahia state and then the country’s second mos
  
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• Jubilant Brazilians hail I’m Still Here’s Oscar as landmark in fight for justice

  03-03-2025 18:11
  Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie turns focus on dark time in country’s history and more recent coup attemptAhead of the Oscars ceremony, Brazil’s Fernanda Torres – star of Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie I’m Still Here – had warned her compatriots not to get into a “World Cup fever” over the Academy Awards.Her plea went in vain on Sunday night, however, as crowds across the country – already gathered to celebrate carnival &
  
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• Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity – podcast

  03-03-2025 06:00
  In 2004, 29 people were killed by members of the Cinta Larga tribe in Brazil’s Amazon basin. The story shocked the country – but the truth of what happened is still being fought overBy Alex Cuadros. Read by Felipe Pacheco Continue reading...
  
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• I’m Still Here wins Oscar for best international film, becoming first Brazilian film to do so

  03-03-2025 03:57
  
  Brazil’s official entry beats beleaguered French favourite Emilia Pérez to the podiumAnora dominates the Oscars — here’s the complete list of winnersI’m Still Here has won the Oscar for best international film at the Academy Awards, which are currently taking place in Los Angeles. It is the first Brazilian film to win the award.Directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here is a political drama based on the true story of Eunice Paiva,
  
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• A Brazilian samba star says goodbye: ‘I’ve fought a lot, but I also think we need to live’

  02-03-2025 11:00
  
  Neguinho da Beija-Flor, 75, is the most recognisable voice in Rio de Janeiro’s elite carnival league and has led 50 consecutive parades for the same schoolOn Monday night, as 100,000 people gather in the stands and VIP boxes of the Marquês de Sapucaí Sambadrome to watch the second night of parades at Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous carnival, a voice that has resonated for half a century will be heard there for the last time.It will be the final performance by Neguinho da B
  
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• The São Paulo connection: a Brazilian gang is spreading its cocaine business into Australia

  27-02-2025 23:10
  
  The PCC – First Capital Command – formed in a Sāo Paulo prison but is now spreading its tentacles around the worldIn September 2020, the Australian Border Force intercepted 552kg of cocaine concealed in 2,000 boxes of frozen banana pulp that had arrived at the port of Sydney on a ship from Brazil.Two years later, a diver was found floating dead next to 52kg of cocaine near the port of Newcastle, in New South Wales, Australia. Police later discovered that he was a Brazilian natio
  
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• Why I’m Still Here should win the best picture Oscar

  26-02-2025 11:16
  
  Walter Salles’s true-story drama reflects on a dark chapter from Brazil’s authoritarian past that has a chilling resonance for the world we live in todayThere are many reasons Walter Salles’s heart-rending drama I’m Still Here should win the Oscar for best picture: its gorgeous Brazilian soundtrack, extraordinary, empathetic performances and poignant camerawork to name a few.But surely one of the most compelling is the giant party such a victory would produce in the direc
  
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• Brazilian city in Amazon declares state of emergency after sinkholes open up – video

  22-02-2025 18:15
  In Buriticupu, about 1,200 people out of a population of 55,000 risk losing their homes after large soil erosions. Residents have been watching the natural process unfold for the last 30 years, as rain eroded the sandy soil. The situation has only been made worse by poorly planned building work and deforestationBrazilian city in Amazon declares emergency after huge sinkholes appear Continue reading...
  
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• Brazilian city in Amazon declares emergency after huge sinkholes appear

  21-02-2025 23:08
  In Buriticupu, about 1,200 people risk losing their homes, and residents have seen the problem escalate in 30 yearsAuthorities in a city in the Brazilian Amazon have declared a state of emergency after huge sinkholes opened up, threatening hundreds of homes.Several buildings in Buriticupu, in Maranhão state, have already been destroyed, and about 1,200 people of a population of 55,000 risk losing their homes into a widening abyss. Continue reading...
  
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• Brazilians hail strength of democracy as Bolsonaro is called to account

  19-02-2025 20:35
  
  ‘In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the US they get back into the White House,’ says one leading politicianBrazilian democrats have celebrated the strength of their country’s judiciary and institutions after the former president Jair Bolsonaro was left facing political oblivion and jail time for allegedly plotting a coup, in stark contrast to the US’s failure to bring Donald Trump to justice for his anti-democratic acts.“In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the
  
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• Trump’s media group sues Brazil justice weighing Bolsonaro indictment

  19-02-2025 20:09
  
  Florida lawsuit accuses Alexandre de Moraes of violating free speech rights of far-right Brazilian influencerDonald Trump’s media group and the video platform Rumble have jointly filed a lawsuit against a Brazilian supreme court justice, alleging that he violated the right to free speech of a far-right Brazilian influencer residing in the US.The suit against justice Alexandre de Moraes was filed in a federal court in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday morning, just hours after he received the in
  
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• Bolsonaro indictment leaves Brazil’s tropical Trump staring at prospect of jail

  19-02-2025 17:36
  
  The ex-president faces charges of a murderous conspiracy while his US counterpart has surged back to powerAt the height of Jair Bolsonaro’s haywire presidency, Brazilian activists projected their deepest desire on to the Tower of London, where Guy Fawkes once languished after plotting to blow up parliament and assassinate the king.“Jail Bolsonaro,” their wordplay read. Continue reading...
  
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• British journalist missing in Brazil for 11 days

  19-02-2025 17:26
  
  Foreign correspondents’ association urges authorities to step up search for Charlotte Alice Peet, 32A British journalist has been missing in Brazil for 11 days, a foreign correspondents’ association in the country said on Tuesday, urging authorities to step up their search efforts.Charlotte Alice Peet, 32, last communicated with a friend on 8 February, according to a statement from the Rio de Janeiro-based Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (ACIE). Continue reading...
  
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• Developing world urges rich nations to defy Trump’s ‘climate nihilism’

  19-02-2025 14:11
  
  Poorer countries want rapid emission cuts and more financial help in face of US leader’s stance on global heatingDeveloping countries are calling on the rich world to defy the US president, Donald Trump, and bridge the global chasm over climate action, before the goal of limiting global temperatures to safe levels is irretrievably lost.Diplomats from the developing world are rallying to support Brazil, which will host a crucial climate summit in November, after last year’s talks in A
  
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• I’m Still Here review – Fernanda Torres’s stoic maternal mask never slips

  19-02-2025 08:00
  
  Emotions hide beneath the surface and horrors lurk behind unseen doors in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated tale of the Brazilian disappearedThe subtlety and dignity of Fernanda Torres’s Oscar-nominated performance in Walter Salles’s new film have been rightly praised. This is a kind of mother-courage true story: the case of Eunice Paiva, a Brazilian woman who had to keep her family together and shield her five children from despair when her activist husband Rubens was brutally &
  
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• Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil

  19-02-2025 01:43
  
  Former president has denied breaking the law, while attorney general alleges plot included a plan to poison Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with allegedly masterminding and leading a far-right conspiracy to cling to power through a military coup.The South American country’s attorney general, Paulo Gonet, levelled the charges against the radical rightwing populist and several key allies on Tuesday night. He accused Bolsonaro an
  
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• Brazil mayor was shot in ‘fake attack’ for election boost – but still lost in landslide

  18-02-2025 17:46
  
  José Aprígio da Silva was seriously hurt in October by assailants with assault rifles but police say it was fakedAs campaign strategies go it was unorthodox and illegal: buy an AK-47, hire a pair of phony hitmen, and stage a fake assassination attempt against the mayor that would generate public sympathy and help him win a second term in power.That, Brazilian police claim, was the gameplan last October when, on the eve of the local election, an armoured vehicle carrying José
  
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• Meta plans to link US and India with world’s longest undersea cable project

  17-02-2025 20:20
  
  Project Waterworth, which involves cable longer than Earth’s circumference, to also reach South Africa and BrazilMeta has announced plans to build the world’s longest underwater cable project, which aims to connect the US, India, South Africa, Brazil and other regions.The tech company said Project Waterworth involved a 50,000km (31,000-mile) subsea cable, which is longer than the Earth’s circumference. Continue reading...
  
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• Brazil asks UN to ditch proposed levy on global shipping

  17-02-2025 07:00
  
  Those supporting the deal hope it will raise billions to help poor countries deal with climate breakdownBrazil has asked the UN to throw out plans for a new levy on global shipping that would raise funds to fight the climate crisis, despite playing host to the next UN climate summit.The proposed levy on carbon dioxide emissions from shipping will be discussed at a crunch meeting of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) that begins on Monday. Those supporting the deal, including the UK, t
  
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• Film-maker Walter Salles: ‘Cinema, as opposed to noise, used to be at the heart of the Oscars’

  16-02-2025 10:30
  
  The Brazilian director on his Oscar-nominated new film, I’m Still Here, the importance of remembering shared history, and Brazil’s double pandemicWalter Salles, 68, is Brazil’s most internationally celebrated film-maker. He came to global prominence in 1998 with the poignant road movie Central Station, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival and received two Oscar nominations, and has since released English-language films including Dark Water and On the Road and h
  
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• Intense heatwave in southern Brazil forces schools to suspend return

  12-02-2025 11:00
  
  Record highs delay start of classes in Rio Grande do Sul, where floods linked to climate crisis left 180 dead last MayDuring historic floods last May that left more than 180 dead in Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, the water rose to the ceiling of the Olindo Flores school in the city of São Leopoldo, destroying furniture, books and parts of its infrastructure.When classes resumed more than a month later, its 500 students had to be relocated to another school for month
  
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• Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest

  06-02-2025 10:00
  
  Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards For decades, archaeologists have believed that human occupation of the Amazon basin was far older, vaster and more urbanised than the textbooks suggested. But hard evidence was scant, artefacts were scattered, and there were too few people on the ground to fully assess the magnitude of what lay cached in the dense forest. Then they fou
  
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• Their husbands and sons were killed by the police. But Brazil’s grieving mothers are banding together

  04-02-2025 07:00
  Every year, 6,000 people, mostly young Black men, are victims of state violence. Now, ‘scholarship mums’ are acting as paid researchers in a pioneering programme to provide support to those left behindSonia Bonfim Vicente recalls every detail of the night in September 2021 when police killed her husband, William, and 17-year-old son, Samuel, as they rode a motorbike through a Rio de Janeiro favela; from her dread when they didn’t come home to the exact time she arrived at the h
  
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• ‘Hope has returned’: tribe hails Lula’s fight against illegal mining in Amazon

  03-02-2025 10:00
  
  Two years after Brazil’s president vowed to bring the Yanomami tribe back from the brink, hunger and infant mortality rates are fallingThe Yanomami villagers had trekked for days through some of Brazil’s most secluded jungles to reach the assembly, their traditional clothing announcing an existence deeply entwined with nature that stretched back thousands of years.As they filed into a thatched communal hut to share stories of their lives, the forest dwellers wore armlets fashioned fr
  
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• Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism review – spot the standouts in lavish display of bafflingly weak art

  02-02-2025 10:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  Harking back to a wartime RA show, this mishmash of 20th-century Brazilian art, much of it in thrall to European modernism, ends exactly where it should begin…A warning at the outset – the birth of modernism, in Brasil! Brasil! at the Royal Academy, does not mean the actual baby. You will not be flying down to Rio in the 60s. There will be no cool constructions by Lygia Pape or fluttering sculptures by Hélio Oiticica, no hint of Oscar Niemeyer’s sw
  
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• Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driving Brazil’s roads – podcast

  31-01-2025 06:00
  
  As a sociologist, my career couldn’t be further from that of my father, who spent his life on the road as a truck driver. It’s only in recent years, as illness has struck, that I’ve started to truly understand him. By José Henrique Bortoluci. Read by Felipe Pacheco Continue reading...
  
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• Patti Smith collapses on stage in Brazil after suffering days-long migraine

  30-01-2025 15:49
  
  The poet, author and musician fell during a performance with Soundwalk Collective, who later posted ‘she is being cared for by the best doctors’Patti Smith collapsed during a performance in Brazil after experiencing a severe migraine for several days. Smith, 78, was performing with the Berlin group Soundwalk Collective, in which she recites her writing to a musical backing.Associated Press reported that the newspaper Folha de S Paulo said that Smith passed out about 30 minutes into t
  
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• In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why

  30-01-2025 08:00
  
  Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going onSomething was happening to the birds at Tiputini. The biodiversity research centre, buried deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, has always been special. It is astonishingly remote: a tiny scattering of research cabins in 1.7m hectares (4.2m acres) of virgin forest. For scientists, it comes about as close as you can to observing rainforest wildlife
  
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• Salgado’s respect for Indigenous people | Letters

  29-01-2025 19:15
  
  The work of the Brazilian photographer is defended by Beto Vargas MaruboYour article (‘Let Amazonians speak for themselves’: trouble in paradise for Sebastião Salgado’s Amazônia, 17 January) commits a grave injustice to the work and legacy of the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. Salgado primarily photographs Indigenous groups in their traditional way of life. Communities such as the Suruahá, Zo’é, and Korubo are depicted exactly
  
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• ‘Africa is where I’m from’: why some Black Brazilians are moving to Benin

  29-01-2025 11:00
  
  West African country is offering citizenship to descendants of enslaved persons taken from the continent, sparking huge interest in BrazilJoão Diamante was gripped by a sense of belonging as he stepped out of the airport terminal thousands of miles from his birthplace in Brazil.“The first thing I felt was that I was at home,” recalled the 33-year-old celebrity chef from Rio. “Nobody looked at me like they were afraid of me because of the colour of my skin … On the
  
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• ‘Abnormal art is the only good art’: how Flávio de Carvalho sparked a Brazilian revolution

  28-01-2025 09:00
  
  He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the Royal Academy’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernismIn 1931, as the Corpus Christi parade made its way through central São Paulo, the Catholic faithful found a tall man walking in the opposite direction. As he went, Flávio de Carvalho flirted with the men, and refused all calls for him to cease his disrup
  
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• Colombia lifts ban on deportation flights after Trump tariff threat

  27-01-2025 06:27
  
  US president had called for ‘retaliatory measures’ after Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, blocked two military aircraft carrying deporteesThe US and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the Colombians had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants.Donald Trump, the US president, had threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia to punish it for earlier refusing to accept military flights carrying deportees
  
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• Colombia rejects US military flights with deportees and sets off feud with Trump

  27-01-2025 01:11
  Trump had called for ‘retaliatory measures’ including 50% tariffs on Colombia after Gustavo Petro blocked two aircraftColombian president Gustavo Petro blocked two US military aircraft carrying deported Colombians from landing in his country, prompting a feud with Donald Trump who enacted emergency tariffs and other retaliatory measures.The US president responded fiercely in a post on his Truth Social network when he was informed that two repatriation flights from the US to Colombia
  
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• New accents: the company reshaping Brazilian film by showing ‘ordinary’ life

  26-01-2025 11:00
  
  Filmes de Plástico has filled cinemas and won acclaim by focusing on Black characters living in poor urban areasAfter arriving late several times at work, a librarian is dismissed from his school. The HR employee tasked with presenting the bad news offers him a lift, their conversation deepens and by the end of the night they discover they have a lot in common – including a shared history of mental health treatment – and end up falling in love.In The Day I Met You, the scenari
  
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• How the world has responded to Trump’s Paris climate agreement withdrawal

  24-01-2025 13:00
  From Europe to Africa and South America, countries reaffirm commitment to tackle crisisWorld leaders, senior ministers and key figures in climate diplomacy have, one by one, reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris agreement this week, in response to the order by Donald Trump to withdraw the US from the pact.The prospect of the world keeping temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, as the treaty calls for, was damaged by the incoming US president’s move. Hopes of meeting the targe
  
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• Brasil! Brasil! review – no fun and no funk in this baffling morass of mediocrity

  24-01-2025 11:53
  
  Royal Academy, London
  Brazil produces incredible artists, too few of whom appear in this deluded show, which sadly fails to live up to its own hyperbolic guffWhat words would you use to describe the design of this exhibition of Brazilian modernist art? “Chic bombast” perhaps. The biggest room in the main galleries of Burlington House is painted bold yellow with the names of its two featured artists in huge black graphics and, for visitors to sit on, funky curving furniture. But there
  
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• The year the rainforest dried up: how the climate crisis beached Brazil’s floating communities

  22-01-2025 13:00
  
  Some areas of the Amazon experienced their worst drought in 120 years in 2024. Brazilian rivers such as the Negro fell to their lowest levels on record, affecting more than 140,000 families for months.Photographer Musuk Nolte documented the crisis Continue reading...
  
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• Brazil fires consumed wilderness area larger than Italy in 2024 – report

  22-01-2025 04:00
  
  New report says more than 30m hectares burned, 79% more than in 2023, after country saw worst drought on recordAfter enduring its worst drought on record in 2024, Brazil closed the year with another alarming milestone: between January and December, 30.86m hectares of wilderness burned – an area larger than Italy.The figure published in a new report is 79% higher than in 2023 and the largest recorded by Fire Monitor since its launch in 2019 by MapBiomas, an initiative by NGOs, universities
  
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• Brazil appoints veteran diplomat as Cop30 president for November summit

  21-01-2025 22:41
  
  Climate negotiator André Aranha Corrêa do Lago given top job, bypassing Brazilian environment minister Marina SilvaBrazil has announced the top team for the next UN climate summit, which will be hosted in Belém this November, bypassing the country’s environment minister, Marina Silva, in favour of a veteran diplomat for the crucial role of president of the talks.The experienced climate negotiator and secretary for climate, energy and environment, André Aranha Cor
  
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• ‘Let Amazonians speak for themselves’: trouble in paradise for Sebastião Salgado’s Amazônia

  17-01-2025 16:02
  
  Salgado is one of the world’s best-known documentary photographers but a growing wave of Indigenous critics are angry about the exoticised way in which they believe non-native photographers portray their communitiesSebastião Salgado’s jaw-dropping images of the world’s largest rainforest are renowned for leaving viewers stunned. That’s largely been the case at the Brazilian photographer’s latest exhibition, Amazônia, which is showing at Barcelona’
  
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• Brazil court rejects Jair Bolsonaro’s bid to attend Trump’s inauguration

  16-01-2025 18:36
  
  Judge rules former president’s passport will not be returned in case he uses it to flee abroad amid coup investigationBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro – who is under investigation for allegedly plotting a coup – has seen his hopes of attending Donald Trump’s inauguration dashed after a judge ruled his confiscated passport would not be returned in case the disgraced politician used it to flee abroad.Bolsonaro’s travel document was seized by federal poli
  
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• Man in Brazil wrongly charged with 62 crimes after police use flawed photo ID

  14-01-2025 11:00
  
  Police relied on showing photo of Paulo Alberto da Silva Costa, wrongly jailed for years, to victims to identify him as an alleged perpetratorPaulo Alberto da Silva Costa was having a regular day at work as a doorman in Rio de Janeiro when he was arrested in 2020. It was only then that he learned he was a suspect in 62 crimes: almost all were thefts, but there were also two homicide charges. Costa spent three years behind bars before Brazil’s supreme court recognised that it had all been a
  
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