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• Brazil summons Hungarian envoy to explain why Bolsonaro hid in embassy

  25-03-2024 22:53
  
  Former Brazil president spent two nights at legation after two close aides were detained in February over alleged coup plotBrazil’s foreign ministry has summoned the Hungarian ambassador to explain why the South American country’s embattled former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights “hiding” at Hungary’s embassy in Brasília last month as federal police investigators closed in on some of his closest allies.Security footage obtained by the New York Times
  
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• Jair Bolsonaro reportedly ‘hid’ in Hungarian embassy after allies arrested

  25-03-2024 20:27
  
  Former Brazil president spent two nights at legation after two close aides were detained in February over alleged coup plotBrazil’s embattled former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights “hiding” at the Hungarian embassy in Brasília last month as federal police investigators closed in on some of his closest allies, the New York Times has claimed.Security footage obtained by the US newspaper appeared to show that in early February – four days after two Bolsonaro
  
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• Dani Alves leaves Spanish jail after paying €1m bail

  25-03-2024 17:23
  
  Ex-Barcelona footballer on provisional release from prison term while he appeals against rape convictionThe former Brazil international footballer Dani Alves has been allowed out on bail having served 14 months of a four-and-a-half-year sentence for rape.One of the world’s most decorated footballers, Alves, 40, was found guilty last month of raping a young woman in the VIP bathroom of a Barcelona nightclub in the early hours of 31 December 2022. Continue reading...
  
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• Weather tracker: Flood fallout claims at least 20 lives in Brazil

  25-03-2024 10:23
  
  Heavy rainfall brings landslides to country’s south-east. Elsewhere, a wild temperature fluctuation in IberiaBrazil was hit by devastating floods over the weekend that have so far claimed 20 lives in the resultant landslides and mudslides. There was heavy rainfall in parts of the south-east, including Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis and the larger Espírito Santo region, with hourly rainfall totals of about 20mm recorded in places. Cumulative totals from Friday through Sunday were
  
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