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Brazil supreme court upholds X ban for non-compliance

By Lee-Yandra Paulsen Brazil's Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a ban on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, following Elon Musk's refusal to comply with local laws. All five justices supported the decision, reinforcing Brazil's commitment to holding foreign companies legally accountable. Speaking to PM Drive on Tuesday, Dr Fazlyn Petersen, a Senior Lecturer in the Economic and Management Science Faculty's Information Systems Department at the University of […]

4 September 2024

International

Why Turkey wants to join Brics

Turkey has made a strategic move to join the Brics economic bloc earlier this year, three Turkish officials with knowledge of the matter told Middle East Eye. Brics, an acronym for its early members - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - is seen likely by some commentators to dominate the global economy in the coming decades. Often seen as an alternative to the G7, which is led primarily […]

8 June 2024

International

Palestinian groups ask Brazil to denounce Israeli apartheid

A delegation from the Front in Defence of the Palestinian People met with officials from the Brazilian Presidency's Communications Office (Secom) in Brasilia on Monday to highlight the grave situation lived by the Palestinian people under occupation and ask Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's administration to recognise and denounce Israel's apartheid policies. The delegation asked "the new government to take the lead in Latin American and the Global South in […]

28 April 2023

International

Brazil sinks aircraft carrier in Atlantic despite pollution risk

Brazil has sunk a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean despite concerns expressed by environmental groups that the ageing warship was packed with toxic materials. The “planned and controlled sinking occurred late in the afternoon” on Friday, some 350 km (220 miles) off the Brazilian coast in the Atlantic Ocean, in an area with an “approximate depth of 5,000 meters [16,000 feet]”, Brazil’s Navy said in a statement. The decision to […]

4 February 2023

International

COP27; Brazil’s Lula vows halt to rampant deforestation

INTERNATIONAL Speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vowed to crack down on illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and to make his country a leader in the global fight against climate change. The statements on Wednesday, which come six weeks before Lula is set to take office, signalled a departure from the policies of current President Jair Bolsonaro, who presided over years of rampant […]

17 November 2022

International

Brazilian Muslims demand Harvard return skull of slave who fought in uprising

INTERNATIONAL The Islamic community of Salvador, in Brazil’s Bahia state, has pushed Harvard University to repatriate the skull of an enslaved man who allegedly took part in a famous uprising of African Muslims in the city in 1835. The skull is part of a Harvard collection of human remains of 19 people of African origin likely enslaved in the Americas. The University’s Peabody and Warren museums also hold the remains […]

16 October 2022

International News

Brazil sets new COVID deaths record as health minister sworn in

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has confirmed his fourth health minister since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the South American country registered a new single-day record for coronavirus deaths. Bolsonaro, a coronavirus sceptic who continues to reject public health restrictions and lockdowns despite a recent surge in coronavirus infections, signed a decree on Tuesday installing cardiologist Dr Marcelo Queiroga as health minister. Queiroga replaces Army General Eduardo Pazuello, who […]

24 March 2021

International News

‘Pandemic and chaos’: Brazilians protest coronavirus lockdowns

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets across large cities in Brazil, snarling traffic as they denounced pandemic lockdown measures opposed by President Jair Bolsonaro. Protesters in trucks, cars and motorcycles, some wrapping in the country's green and yellow flags, honked horns in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and the capital of Brasilia on Saturday, calling for governors to resign over measures that have forced most […]

19 April 2020

Local

10th annual Brics summit kicks off

Leaders of the Brics emerging economies -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- will gather in Johannesburg on Wednesday for a three-day meeting focused on the threat of a US-led global trade war. China's President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Michel Temer will attend the annual summit, along with several African leaders invited as guests. Xi held talks with […]

25 July 2018

Brazil

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