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Brazil govt open to foreign aid for fighting Amazon fires: Spokesman

The essential point is that this money, on entering Brazil, will be under the control of the Brazilian people

'Use funds to reforest Europe': Brazil rejects G7 aid to fight Amazon fires

A top official told French President Emmanuel Macron to take care of 'his home and his colonies.'

Amazon is still on fire: 4 essential reads on Brazil's vanishing rainforest

Environmental researchers explain how farming, big infrastructure projects and roads drive the deforestation that's slowly killing the Amazon

Brazil prez causes outrage over Amazon fires; Europe threatens to end trade

Pope Francis added his voice to the chorus of concern, warning that the lung of forest is vital for our planet

Colonialist mentality: Brazil hits out at Macron over Amazon fire criticism

Macron had tweeted that fires burning in the Amazon amount to an international crisis

Amazon fire: EU warns of trade retaliation, Brazil scrambles to make amends

Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon, which accounts for more than half of the world's largest rainforest, have surged in number by 83% this year

How trade war between US and China could be fueling Amazon fires

The danger of the current situation is that China's hunger for soy may derail the halting recent progress in ending deforestation

Slum Soccer transforms the lives of slum children with the help of football

Slum Soccer has won the FIFA Diversity Award 2016 and FICCI Gender Diversity Award 2018. It now plans to mentor talented footballers under 14 years of age

As fires rage in Amazon forests, Brazil pushes back against global flak

President Jair Bolsonaro's senior foreign policy adviser tweeted a long English language thread defending Brazil's record on Amazon deforestation and attacking media coverage

WTO to set up dispute settlement panel to review India's sugar subsidy

India also reiterated that the measures were consistent with its WTO obligations

52 inmates killed in Brazil prison riot, 16 of them decapitated: Official

Fighting broke out in the Altamira Regional Recovery Center at around 7:00 am (1000 GMT), an official from the Para state government's penitentiary department told AFP

Brazil joins Australia in dragging India to WTO over sugar subsidies

In February, Brazil had requested that the WTO start consultations on the subject but the two sides failed to reach a resolution

Ex-Rio de Janerio governor admits he paid $2 nm bribe to host 2016 Olympics

Sergio Cabral told a judge the money went to Lamine Diack, the former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations and was used to buy as many as nine votes

Brazil's new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to be sworn in today

Before becoming a politician, Bolsonaro served in Brazil's military, where he was a paratrooper and rose to the rank of Captain

Brazil's Israel move may set off diplomatic storm with West Asia

Brazil exports $16 billion annually to the West Asia and Turkey, with just 3% going to Israel, which can be affected

Brazil's next defense minister wants snipers to take out armed criminals

Asked if his plan included shooting suspects in the back, he said: 'Gun in hand? He's a threat. He's going to use that gun to attack anyone who's in front of him'

The rise of a strongman

Implications of Jair Bolsonaro's presidential win

Bolsonaro, a right-winger, wins Brazil's election on anti-corruption plank

Despite repulsing many with his open support of the torture used by Brazil's former military dictatorship, as well as remarks deemed misogynist, racist and homophobic, Bolsonaro won

Brazil's right-wing Bolsonaro poised to win presidency as voting begins

Bolsonaro's sudden rise was propelled by rejection of the leftist Workers Party (PT) that ran Brazil for 13 of the last 15 years

Brazilian vigilante tattoo punishment depicts skepticism of human rights

This act depicted a rejection of basic human rights like the right to life, dignity & a fair trial