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• Judge investigating 2023 coup was court bomb target, say Brazilian police

  14-11-2024 17:56
  
  Police name 59-year-old with explosive devices said to have killed himself after trying to enter court in BrasíliaThe main target of a bomber who killed himself while attempting to attack Brazil’s supreme court was the justice leading the key investigations into the attempted coup of 8 January last year, when supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro ransacked the buildings to protest against his election defeat, police have said. The explosions outside the court on Wednesda
  
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• Evaristos united: namesakes Bernardine and Conceição meet at book festival

  14-11-2024 15:27
  Celebrated authors discuss the somewhat connected stories of their shared surname at literary event in RioBorn more than 5,500 miles apart, the Booker prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, 65, and Brazil’s most celebrated living Black author, Conceição Evaristo, 77, share the same surname, though they are – as far as is known – unrelated.But their surnames’ stories are somewhat connected, and shed light on aspects of the history of Brazil, the country that recei
  
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• Can southern Brazil’s deadly floods spur the shift to green energy?

  14-11-2024 11:00
  
  Months after devastating rains displaced 420,000 people in Rio Grande do Sul, an unusual consensus has formed around the need for a faster transition to renewablesBeside a narrow canal that runs through the outskirts of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, a row of wooden houses with makeshift fences lean among piles of debris and power poles tangled in sagging wires. From the dirt road, Alexandra Marina Romero, 27, gazes at the aftermath of a disaster. “There used to be a church here,”
  
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• Man dead after explosions outside Brazil supreme court ahead of G20

  14-11-2024 04:20
  
  Officials said the man had killed himself with a bomb after trying to enter the Supreme Court, prompting security concerns ahead of the global leaders meetingA man killed himself with a bomb outside Brazil’s supreme court after trying to enter the building on Wednesday, officials have said, stirring security concerns before the country hosts global leaders from the Group of 20 major economies.The blasts come five days before the G20 heads of state meet in Rio de Janeiro, followed by a stat
  
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