Brazil news

• Bolsonaro under investigation for ‘harassing’ humpback whale

  19-11-2023 15:45
  Man resembling Brazilian ex-president seemingly spotted on a jetski about 15 metres from distressed mammalFederal police are investigating Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for yet another suspected misdeed: “harassing” a humpback whale while taking a public holiday spin on his jetski.Bolsonaro’s anti-environmental policies earned him the nickname “Captain Chainsaw” during a four-year administration characterised by soaring destruction of the Amazon.
  
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• ‘Hell de Janeiro’: scorching heat highlights Brazil’s glaring inequality

  19-11-2023 12:02
  
  It felt like 58.5C in Rio on Tuesday – and the soaring, indeed dangerous, temperatures are hitting the poorest hardestThe start of summer in the southern hemisphere is still a month away, but Brazil has already experienced its eighth heatwave of the year so far, as temperatures soar to dangerously high levels.Large swathes of the country were put under red alert this week by Inmet, the national meteorological institute, which warned of risks to health “and even life” as tempera
  
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