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• Jair Bolsonaro surrenders passport in coup attempt investigation

  08-02-2024 16:57
  
  Police seize passport as agents carry out 33 searches and four arrests across Brazil, targeting allies of far-right former presidentBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has surrendered his passport as part of a police investigation into the attempted coup on 8 January 2023, which sought to keep him in power, his lawyers have said.In operations that also targeted key allies of the former far-right leader, federal police agents carried out 33 searches and four arrests across Brazil on Th
  
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• Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’

  08-02-2024 13:00
  
  The legendary photojournalist looks back on a life committed to documenting people and the planet, and explains why nature became his focus‘I photographed the world’: the art of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures‘I photographed the world,” says Sebastião Salgado, flicking through the archive in his Paris studio. Salgado, who turns 80 this week, has witnessed wars, revolutions, coups, humanitarian crises, and famine. He has also seen some of the most prist
  
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• ‘I photographed the world’: the art of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures

  08-02-2024 13:00
  
  As the photographer turns 80, we look back as some of his most striking images from around the world. A selection of his work can be seen at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, 16 March to 15 AprilPhotographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’ Continue reading...
  
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