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Paris, France | AFP | Monday 4/17/2023 by Anne LEC’HVIEN Air France and plane manufacturer Airbus were acquitted Monday over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight after a French court ruled their errors could not be proven as the disaster’s cause. While the ruling was expected after prosecutors recommended to the Paris court not to seek a conviction, it is still a huge blow for families of victims who have waged a 14-year campaign […]
Beijing, China | AFP | Saturday 4/15/2023 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Saturday that the United States should stop “encouraging war” in Ukraine “and start talking about peace”. “The United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace, the European Union needs to start talking about peace,” Lula told reporters in Beijing at the end of a visit where he met with President Xi Jinping. In that way, the […]
by Anderson COELHO Agence France-Presse BLUMENAU, Brazil (AFP) — A 25-year-old man burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children with a hatchet-like weapon Wednesday before turning himself in to police, an attack President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as “monstrous.” The attacker, who jumped a wall to get inside, also wounded four other children at the private preschool, known as the Good Shepherd Center, in the city of Blumenau, said […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — A police raid on a favela near Rio de Janeiro Thursday left at least 13 people dead, including the suspected leader of a crime gang active in the north of Brazil, local media reported. “There are 13 dead, two individuals detained and a large number of weapons seized,” Fabricio Oliveira, from the Coordination of Special Resources of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, told a press conference. Police […]
by Marcelo SILVA DE SOUSA Agence France-Presse BRASÍLIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has not even been in power for 100 days but has already provoked the wrath of foreign oil companies with the creation of a new tax on crude exports. Multinationals Repsol, TotalEnergies, Shell, Equinor and Galp have petitioned a federal court to suspend the 9.2 percent tax due to run from March to July and announced by […]
by Joshua Howat Berger Agence France-Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil. So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean. Santos first found the plastic rocks […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Marauding attacks by gang members in northeast Brazil continued for a third night despite a beefed up presence of security forces, authorities said on Thursday. Media reports carried images of public buses and buildings in flames in nine cities — including state capital Natal — in the northeastern Rio Grande do Norte state. The unrest, which began late Monday, was orchestrated by imprisoned gang leaders as a protest against jail […]
by Luján Scarpinelli Agence France-Presse SÃO SEBASTIÃO, Brazil (AFP) — Rescuers in southeastern Brazil scrambled Tuesday to find survivors among dozens of people still missing after record rainfalls caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 44 people over the weekend. Some 680 millimeters (26 inches) of rain — more than double the expected monthly amount — fell in 24 hours around the popular beach city of Sao Sebastiao, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) southeast […]
by Luján Scarpinelli Agence France-Presse SÃO SEBASTIÃO, Brazil (AFP) — President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday toured a resort region turned disaster zone where torrential rains killed at least 36 people just as carnival celebrations were held in Brazil, where dozens remained missing. Rescue workers were racing to find any survivors buried under the mud and rubble after 24 hours of record rain over the weekend triggered violent floods and landslides that devastated […]
by Luján Scarpinelli Agence France-Presse SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rain in Brazil claimed at least 24 lives on Carnival weekend in southeast Sao Paulo state, authorities said Sunday. TV and social media footage from the town of San Sebastiao showed entire neighborhoods under water, debris from hillside houses swept away by oozing earth, flooded highways and cars destroyed by fallen trees, among other damage. At least 23 people […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by human activity and drought, researchers said Thursday, and action is needed to protect the critically important ecosystem. In a study published in the journal Science, the researchers said the damage done to the forest which spans nine countries is significantly greater than previously known. For the study, they examined the impact of fire, logging, drought and changes […]
by Mauricio RABUFFETTI Agence France-Presse BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday started his first foreign trip since being elected with a meeting in Buenos Aires with Argentine counterpart Alberto Fernandez. Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said before the trip that Lula was looking to “rebuild bridges” with the international community after four years of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro’s populist leadership. The two leftist leaders were to […]
