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Brazil has filed drug trafficking charges against Alexandre Rodrigues Gomes, the son of a former congressman with Paraguay’s ruling party who was killed in a police raid in 2024.

Rosatom’s enormous budgets, opaque transactions, and broad powers create the perfect breeding ground for rampant corruption.

The father of a teen girl allegedly killed after eating poisoned raspberries, sent in an "act of vengeance" by a woman, has shared his sorrow.

The group under investigation is the country’s largest tax debtor, owing more than 26 billion reais ($4.8 billion), authorities said.

One of Brazil’s richest citizens, Rubens Menin, is chairing a sustainable cities group that launched this week at the world’s biggest climate conference.

Dozens storm the venue at a climate conference that has encouraged NGOs and Indigenous groups to play an unprecedented role in the talks.

More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were granted access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period characterized by an increase in catastrophic extreme weather, insufficient climate action, and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals.

Prince William politely refrained from commenting on the controversy involving his uncle Andrew when addressing reporters during a Q&A session on his Earthshot Prize visit to Brazil.

Thousands of protesters have gathered in the Rio favela that this week suffered the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history to demand an inquiry into the killings and an end to security policies that have turned working-class neighborhoods into "war zones".

Singer Vanessa Rios has died aged 42 after a battle with a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer.

An influencer has gone on the run after being accused of running a drug trafficking ring.

Criminal factions and paramilitary mafias have widened their reach in Brazil and now extend into neighborhoods home to at least 28.5 million people, according to a Datafolha survey commissioned by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety.

Human Rights Watch has warned that the European Union continues to export vast quantities of hazardous pesticides banned for use inside the bloc — mainly to countries in the Global South — despite evidence linking the chemicals to cancer, infertility, miscarriages, developmental problems, neurological disorders, and even death.

Thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets to rejoice at Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction for plotting a coup, as progressive politicians celebrated the historic move and rightwing figures linked to Donald Trump responded with anger and threats.

Brazil’s former president Bolsonaro has been jailed for 27 years and three months after being found guilty of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election.

Investigators are searching for three women after the group allegedly conspired to drug a British tourist to steal tens of thousands of pounds from him during his holiday.

Vagner Keith de Freitas was indicted for allegedly trafficking weapons from Paraguay to criminal figures in northeastern Brazil.

Eulalio Gomes Batista had just been charged when he was shot in a police raid at his home.

Convicted sex offender Stephen Bear, 35, has announced his marriage to his Brazilian girlfriend Miami, 18.

According to sources who prefer to remain anonymous, the hackers are encountering difficulties purchasing cryptocurrency through Brazilian OTC desks.

A Brazillian influencer has died after falling while hiking near the crater of an active volcano in Indonesia.

Brazilian police have arrested five individuals accused of being part of a far-right criminal group that planned to spy on and potentially assassinate government and judicial officials.