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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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Police tear gas indigenous protest for land rights in Brazil
Jun 23, 2021 07:28Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a group of indigenous people protesting outside Brazil’s Congress against a bill lawmakers were about to debate that would undermine recognition of protected reservation lands.
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Hundreds of indigenous Brazilians protest bill curtailing land rights
Jun 17, 2021 03:16Several hundred indigenous Brazilians protested outside the Congress building in Brasilia on Wednesday against a bill backed by the country’s farm sector that would limit recognition of reservation lands.
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Iran loses to Brazil at VNL 2021
Jun 17, 2021 00:38Iran was defeated against Brazil 3-1 (25-19, 23-25, 25-19, 25-21) at the 2021 Volleyball Nations League (VNL) Wednesday night.
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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.
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Brazilian Amazon is now releasing more carbon dioxide than it absorbs
May 09, 2021 15:24The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20 percent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbed, according to a stunning report that shows humanity can no longer depend on the world's largest tropical forest to help absorb manmade carbon pollution.
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Brazil seeks to hold Bolsonaro accountable for more than 400,000 COVID-19 deaths
May 06, 2021 05:49Brazil’s COVID-19 crisis remains one of the worst in the world, and a brutal economic depression has forced millions into poverty.