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Banks and UK supermarkets charged with backing deforestation in Brazil
Jun 30, 2022 09:01An investigation said recently by funding and stocking products from Brazilian meat giant JBS, global financiers and UK supermarkets have supported land-grabbing and deforestation.
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BRICS acknowledges Iran’s role in global economic equations
Jun 26, 2022 04:11It is important for nations constituting BRICS to be cautious of the plots of the US and the former colonial powers, so that the group can play an effective role in advancing goals such as the development of South-South relations, amendments in the international financial system and presenting new ideas and initiatives.
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Pfizer accused of holding Brazil ‘to ransom’ over vaccine contract demands
Sep 13, 2021 10:48Pfizer has been accused of holding Brazil “to ransom” over demands to shield itself from possible vaccine side-effect lawsuits in its contract to supply the country with 100 million COVID jabs.
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Corruption allegations increase pressure on Bolsonaro
Jul 07, 2021 09:13The Brazilian president has come under further pressure after being personally implicated in an alleged corruption racket involving the supposed misappropriation of his workforce’s wages.
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Brazilians take to streets to demand removal of Jair Bolsonaro
Jul 06, 2021 15:30Calls for Brazilian president’s impeachment grow amid claims government sought to profit from COVID jabs.
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Brazil suspends Covaxin contract after serious charges of irregularities
Jul 03, 2021 07:35Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga announced on Tuesday, June 29 that his country will suspend a $324m Indian COVID-19 vaccine contract that has mired President Jair Bolsonaro in charges of irregularities.
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High risk of extreme drought: Unchecked climate change will cause severe drying of the Amazon rainforest
Jun 25, 2021 16:36Amazon rain forests could be at far higher risk of extreme drought than previously thought, according to new research.
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Bolsonaro out: Massive protests as Brazil's COVID-19 death toll tops 500,000
Jun 23, 2021 14:27As Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surpassed 500,000, at least hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of more than 400 cities across the nation and around the world to blame President Jair Bolsonaro for the grim pandemic milestone and demand his ouster.
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Tens of thousands of Brazilians march to demand Bolsonaro’s impeachment
May 31, 2021 11:14Tens of thousands of protesters poured on Saturday (May 29, 2021) onto the streets of Brazil’s largest cities to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro over his catastrophic response to a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly half a million Brazilian lives.
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Why is COVID killing so many young children in Brazil? Doctors are baffled
May 20, 2021 03:58COVID-19 is ravaging Brazil, and, in a disturbing new wrinkle that experts are working to understand, it appears to be killing babies and small children at an unusually high rate.