Brazil news

• Lula backpedals on suggestion Putin could attend G20 without fear of arrest

  11-09-2023 16:37
  
  Comments were at odds with Brazil foreign minister’s statement that Putin could face ‘issues’ if he traveled to any ICC member stateThe Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has rowed back on comments suggesting Vladimir Putin would be able to attend next year’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro without fear of arrest.The international criminal court (ICC) has issued a warrant for the Russian leader’s arrest for alleged war crimes in Ukraine and, as a si
  
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• ‘A Brazilian 9/11’: film tells little-known story of failed 1988 hijacking

  11-09-2023 03:00
  
  Pilot saved passengers and Brazil’s president with ‘extraordinarily daring manoeuvres’ in Boeing 737-300Ninety-eight passengers had boarded São Paulo Airways flight 375 to Rio that morning but the man in seat 3C had a different destination in mind. As the Boeing 737-300 roared off the runway, Raimundo Nonato Alves da Conceição sat quietly clutching a backpack with a box of ammunition and a .32 caliber revolver stashed inside.Enraged by the economic turbulen
  
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