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• ‘A violent atmosphere’: Brazil’s alarming rise in police officer suicides

  26-09-2024 19:50
  Self-inflicted deaths have become the leading cause of fatality among the country’s law enforcement agentsRafaela Drumond decided to become a police officer during law school, and completed her training second in her class. Soon afterwards, she secured a transfer to a station near her parents’ home town in Carandaí, in a rural part of Brazil’s Minas Gerais state.“That was the tragedy of her life,” said Rafaela’s father, Aldair . Continue reading...
  
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• Britain’s tropical rain and parched Amazon are new norms in a messed-up climate | Jonathan Watts

  26-09-2024 11:57
  
  On my return to the UK from Brazil I’ve seen how northern latitudes are behaving like the equatorial marginsReturning to British suburbia from the Brazilian Amazon is always disconcerting, but it has been doubly weird in the past few days because the London commuter belt has been inundated with volumes of rain that normally belong in the tropics.Mini-tornadoes, flash floods and the dumping of a month’s worth of rain in a single day have flooded transport hubs, high street pubs, and t
  
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