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• Roadmaps, adaptations and transitions: what climate measures were agreed at Cop30?

  22-11-2025 21:33
  After talks come close to collapse, the deal represents steps, rather than leaps, forward on tackling climate crisisThe UN climate summit Cop30 moved forward the fight against the climate crisis and the damage it is already causing to lives and livelihoods. But the measures delivered are steps, rather than the leaps needed. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US

  04-01-2026 05:00
  Most of the Americas have suffered from interference from their powerful northern neighbour – and are usually the worse off for itUS attacks Venezuela – live updatesThe US bombardment of Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolás Maduro, follow a long history of interventions in South and Central America and the Caribbean over the past two centuries. But they also mark an unprecedented moment as the first direct US military attack on a South American country.At a pres
  
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• Five tech trends we’ll be watching in 2026

  30-12-2025 22:44
  From datacenters to AI, we’ll be keeping our eye on the technology that will be shaping your life in the coming yearHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, wishing you a happy New Year’s Eve filled with cheer, champagne and Mariah Carey’s comically awful rendition of Auld Lang Syne.Today, we’re looking forward to the next year in technology news. I am watching five trends I think will define the year: datacenters will see rapid proliferatio
  
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• Jair Bolsonaro undergoes second procedure to treat persistent hiccups

  29-12-2025 23:07
  Former Brazilian president underwent a phrenic nerve block while temporarily released from prison for surgeryJair Bolsonaro underwent a second “phrenic nerve block procedure” on Monday to treat persistent hiccups.The treatment went well and the former Brazilian president’s condition is stable, according to his medical team. Continue reading...
  
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• Brazilian ex-president Bolsonaro treated for persistent hiccups

  29-12-2025 02:06
  Doctors say they blocked his right phrenic nerve in procedure that took place after jailed former president was hospitalised last week for hernia operationBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro underwent “a phrenic nerve block procedure” on Saturday to treat his persistent hiccups, his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, said on social media.The doctors treating Bolsonaro said later that they blocked the right phrenic nerve and scheduled a new procedure in 48 hours to block the left on
  
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• ‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country

  28-12-2025 13:00
  The Caatinga in the north-east has been transformed by the heating climate in just a generation and could become the country’s first desertEvery Tuesday at dawn, Raildon Suplício Maia goes to the market in Macururé, in Brazil’s Bahia state, to sell goats. He haggles with buyers to get a good price for the animals, which are reared in the open and roam freely.Goats are the main – and sometimes only – source of income for the people of Macururé, a small
  
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• We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2025 – part two

  26-12-2025 09:00
  From the ‘warrior’ midwife saving lives in Senegal to the outed Kenyan pop star speaking up against prejudice, these are some of the people who gave us hopeWe can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2025 – part oneIn the thick of the monsoon this June, I found myself squinting at the smallest of orchids and rarest of impatiens (a flowering plant) inside an enclave of lush rainforest in Kerala, southern India. With Laly Joseph, 56, at the helm, dozens of w
  
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• We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2025 – part one

  25-12-2025 06:00
  From the Indigenous doctor balancing traditional and western medicine to a father risking death to provide for his family in Gaza, these are some of the people whose determination and bravery stood outIn 2012, Adana Omágua Kambeba travelled 4,000km (2,500 miles) from her home in Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon, to take up a coveted place to study medicine at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in south-east Brazil. She became the first among her people, the Kambeba, or Omágua, t
  
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• Bolsonaro supporters ‘cancel’ Havaianas flip-flop brand over television ad

  23-12-2025 15:02
  Son of jailed former Brazilian president says spokesperson for ‘national symbol’ sandals is ‘openly left wing’Leaderless since its figurehead was jailed for attempting a coup, Brazil’s far right has found a new nemesis: the flip-flop brand Havaianas, which has been “cancelled” by Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters over a television advert.The controversy stems from the actor Fernanda Torres – the star of I’m Still Here, the Brazilian film that
  
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• Brazilian president vows to veto bill cutting Jair Bolsonaro’s prison term

  18-12-2025 17:12
  Lula acknowledges his decision to uphold 27-year sentence could be overridden by conservative lawmakers Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has promised to veto a bill passed by congress to reduce the prison term of Jair Bolsonaro, the former president who was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for masterminding an attempted coup to overturn the 2022 elections.Lawmakers passed the bill late on Wednesday after it was approved last week by the lower house. On Thursda
  
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• Moment Statue of Liberty replica collapses due to wind in Brazil – video

  17-12-2025 17:25
  A replica of the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of Brazilian retailer Havan, collapsed after strong winds struck the city of Guaíba. According to Brazilian local media, there were no injuries Continue reading...
  
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• How a Brazilian meat tycoon accused of bribery and deforestation became a key player in regional diplomacy

  16-12-2025 11:00
  Joesley Batista is credited as a major force behind the reconciliation between Trump and Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaSix international airlines had suspended flights to Venezuela over the risk of possible US military strikes when an ultra-long-haul executive jet from São Paulo, Brazil, landed calmly in Caracas.On board that flight on 23 November was the Brazilian meat tycoon Joesley Batista – twice jailed for corruption and whose companies have a long record of environmental vio
  
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• Weather tracker: Bushfires ravage Western Australia as temperatures soar

  15-12-2025 09:54
  Extreme heat follows blazes in New South Wales, while winds plunge Brazil’s largest city into darknessExtreme heat and bushfires have ravaged the parched landscape of Western Australia. With temperatures expected to continue soaring above 40C (104F) over the coming days, the Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe heatwave warning across much of the south-west.The conditions follow bushfires in New South Wales this month, which resulted in the destruction of homes and loss of life. Sever
  
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• US treasury lifts sanctions on Brazilian judge who presided over Bolsonaro case

  12-12-2025 21:07
  Justice Alexandre de Moraes and his wife had been under Global Magnitsky sanctions after conviction of ex-presidentThe US Department of the Treasury has lifted sanctions imposed on the Brazilian supreme court justice who oversaw the conviction of the former president Jair Bolsonaro.Justice Alexandre de Moraes had been under Global Magnitsky sanctions, which target individuals accused of human rights abuses, since July. His wife Viviane Barci de Moraes – who was added the sanctions list in
  
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• Jim Caviezel to play Jair Bolsonaro in ‘heroic’ biopic

  08-12-2025 18:42
  Actor, who starred in The Passion of the Christ, will play the disgraced ex-Brazilian president in film written by his one-time secretary of cultureJair Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president now in prison for plotting a coup, is getting the biopic treatment.Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, is reportedly filming a “heroic” portrait of the rightwing ex-politician in secret. Dark Horse, directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh and written
  
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• US attack on Venezuela risks ‘Vietnam-style’ regional conflict, warns Lula adviser

  08-12-2025 13:39
  Brazil aide says Trump’s closure of Venezuelan airspace amounts to an ‘act of war’ that could escalateMaduro says the real reason for Trump’s Venezuela fixation is oil – is he right?A US invasion or attack on Venezuela could plunge South America into a Vietnam-style conflict, the chief foreign policy adviser to Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has warned.In an interview with the Guardian, Celso Amorim called Donald Trump’s recent dec
  
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• Baby review – an astute portrait of queer Brazilian hustlers lost in the system

  08-12-2025 12:00
  Abandoned by his parents and fresh out of juvenile prison, the wide-eyed Wellington meets a charismatic hustler on the restless streets of São PauloChannelling the urban restlessness and vibrancy of São Paulo, Marcelo Caetano’s bracing drama centres on those who live on the fringes of an ever-changing metropolis. Fresh out of juvenile prison, 18-year-old Wellington (João Pedro Mariano) finds himself at a crossroads; abandoned by his parents, the wide-eyed young man fin
  
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• The loggers and ranchers are closing in but still Brazil’s Kawahiva people wait for protection

  07-12-2025 07:00
  Bureaucratic delays and funding shortages stall plans to carve out a forest reserve for the uncontacted Indigenous group on the southern fringe of the Brazilian AmazonIn 2024, agents of the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) walked more than 60 miles through rainforest on the southern fringe of the Brazilian Amazon on a mission to monitor and help protect a group of Indigenous people who had no contact with the modern world.What they found was a small basket freshly woven from le
  
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• ‘We’re true guardians of the forest’: quilombola community near Belém demand land rights and recognition

  01-12-2025 16:00
  Short boat ride from Cop30 host, Afro-descendant residents of Menino Jesus say their voices are not being heardWalk through the conference centre where the recent UN climate talks were held and representations of Indigenous people and culture were everywhere, from the spear-carrying, fiery-headed Cop30 mascot Curupira to huge mural-sized photos of people navigating the Amazon in dugout canoes and the many protests demanding dialogue outside.Yet a short boat ride down the river from Belém,
  
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• Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol-laced alcohol

  29-11-2025 07:00
  Methanol, a cheap relative of ethanol, is entering the supply chain, causing thousands of deaths around the worldFor Bethany Clarke, poison tasted like nothing. There was no bitter aftertaste, no astringent sting at the back of the tongue. If anything, she thought in passing, the free shots she and her friends were drinking at a hostel bar in Laos had probably been watered down – she wasn’t detecting a strong vodka flavour through the veil of Sprite she had mixed it with.All in all,
  
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• ‘Foam that’s washed away’: support dissolves as Bolsonaro starts 27-year jail term

  28-11-2025 11:00
  Brazil shows little sign of feared rightwing rebellion, with only a few die-hards protesting outside prisonA few hours before Jair Bolsonaro was ordered to start his 27-year coup sentence in a parking space-sized room, Arley Xavier stood outside the former president’s new home putting a brave face on his leader’s bind.“It’s not over. There’s still so much Jair Messias Bolsonaro needs to do here in Brazil … No, it’s not over,” insisted the 21-year-
  
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• Protests, tears and a baby: five key images that tell the story of Cop30

  26-11-2025 16:26
  Emotions ran high at the UN climate summit in Brazil, which was hit by its first major protest in four yearsIt was a tense moment. A group of about 50 people from the Munduruku, an Indigenous people in the Amazon basin, had blocked the entrance to the Cop30 venue in protest, causing long lines of delegates to snake down access roads, simmering in the morning heat.The Munduruku, unhappy about the ruination of their forest and rivers by industry and their lack of voice at Cop30, demanded to speak
  
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• Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup

  25-11-2025 20:08
  Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapsesBrazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup.The far-right populist, 70, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the suprem
  
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• ‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal

  25-11-2025 06:00
  It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for CopDawn was breaking over the Amazonian city of Belém on Saturday morning, but in the windowless conference room it could have been day or night. They had been stuck there for more than 12 hours, dozens of ministers representing 17 groups of countries, from the poorest on the planet to the richest, urged by the Brazilian hosts to accept a settlement cooked up the day before.Tem
  
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• Bitter rows and overnight talks: how a fragile Cop30 deal was agreed – podcast

  24-11-2025 18:42
  After bitter arguments, threatened walkouts and heated all-night negotiations, delegates eventually reached a deal this weekend at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil. To unpick what was achieved and what was left out, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s environment editor, Fiona Harvey, who has been following every twist and turnEnd of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoffSupport the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...
  
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• Jimmy Cliff obituary

  24-11-2025 18:21
  One of the greatest stars of Jamaican reggae known for his 1969 hit Many Rivers to Cross and the film The Harder They ComeThe singer and songwriter Jimmy Cliff, who has died aged 81, was one of Jamaica’s most celebrated performers. An itinerant ambassador who introduced the music and culture of his island to audiences across the world at a time when reggae was largely unknown, he was a pioneer with a distinctive high tenor voice whose themes of civil and human rights resonated with many.Th
  
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• Jair Bolsonaro claims ‘psychotic attack’ made him tamper with ankle monitor

  23-11-2025 18:56
  Brazil’s former president says he took a soldering iron to electronic tag as he was hallucinating that it was buggedBrazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he took a soldering iron to his electronic ankle monitor after having a substance-induced “psychotic attack” that caused him to hallucinate that the device was bugged.Bolsonaro made the claim during a custody hearing on Sunday, 24 hours after he was arrested at his home in the capital, Bras&iacut
  
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• UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

  23-11-2025 18:46
  Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chiefThe world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship
  
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• Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier

  23-11-2025 13:00
  The dangers of artificial intelligence and its potential to consolidate power are clear. But used fairly, it can be a boon for good governmentDemocracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in Strasbourg, the general expectation is that democracy will be the worse for it. We have another narrative. Yes, there are risks to democracy from AI, but there are also opportunities.We have just published th
  
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• Trump, war, absent media: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30

  23-11-2025 11:21
  Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield they took place inCop30 in Belém wrapped up on Saturday night more than 24 hours later than planned, and with an Amazonian rainstorm thundering down on the conference centre. The United Nations structure just about held, as it has done these past three weeks despite fire, savage tropical heat and blistering political attacks on the multilateral system of global environmental governance.Dozens of agr
  
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