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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged the largest-ever gathering of business leaders at the United Nations to help fight global poverty by fighting the ``scandalous subsidies'' rich countries give their farmers.Declaring that poverty is ``morally and ethically unacceptable,'' Lula said business must join governments and civic groups to ensure that millions do not go to bed and wake up hungry. They must change a world in which 24,000 people die everyday because they have nothing to eat, he said.``I would like to see you engaged in a campaign to free all human beings from...

He was dressed to kill. A suspected serial killer who reportedly confessed to 80 murders was arrested in Brazil while trying to evade justice by dressing as a woman. Wild video shows cops arresting Jorlan Alves da Silva, 33, in a striped dress and loosely fitting long black wig during the dramatic raid in Paraiba state, northeastern Brazil, Record R7 reported. Cops pulled off the wig, revealing the smiling suspected serial killer’s short hair. Silva, 33, was also wearing women’s sandals, dark glasses and painted nails — and carrying a 2-year-old child, O Globo reported — with cops still trying...

As the October election in Brazil approaches and is likely to pit, once again, a Lula vs. Bolsonaro matchup—this time with President Bolsonaro’s son Flávio running in his place—timing has never been better to hold accountable those in the U.S. who collaborated in the subversive campaign, both stateside and abroad, that would lead to President Bolsonaro’s political persecution and ultimately, incarceration, following the presidential election of 2022 in Brazil. It is in this context that President Trump’s measures to pressure the Brazilian government must be understood: as the unmaking of an injustice perpetrated by the U.S. Left, with Biden-era taxpayer...

WASHINGTON — A shady plastic surgeon nicknamed “Dr. Frankenstein” confessed to escaping from Florida with help from his “friends” in Brazil’s Miami consulate to avoid trial for allegedly butchering and stealing from patients — an explosive admission that threatens to unravel diplomatic relations. Joao Araujo, 57, insists he had little choice but to take a boat to the Bahamas on Aug. 1 and then fly to Rio de Janeiro, claiming he was the victim of political persecution by the Trump administration due to his personal clash with a State Department envoy and the fact that his wife, the Jeffrey Epstein-connected...

A BUNGLED secret French attempt to rescue a Colombian politician held hostage in the Amazon jungle has enraged the governments of Brazil and Colombia and embarrassed President Chirac. The bid to rescue Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candididate who has dual French-Colombian nationality, was ordered by Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister. Señora Betancourt is one of his former students. The operation ended in fiasco, with French undercover agents arrested by Brazilian police and M de Villepin accused of a cavalier approach that has set back hopes of Señora Betancourt’s release. M de Villepin denied that he had...

REUTERS — A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online. A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company said it was investigating the report. The State Department said it took “full responsibility” for the confusion caused and that the map had been produced by a team member who hastily changed the slide...

The two ideologies doing battle against the modern West have a shared belief: It’s going to get a lot worse (often with their help) before it magically gets better. arx’s theory of immiseration and Twelver Shia eschatology share a common structural feature: both teach that history moves forward only through a period of necessary, progressive worsening, after which a total redemptive inversion suddenly occurs. Everything else follows from that single shared manifesto. “Redemptive inversion” is the common core. It means the existing order is not improved by degrees; it is completely reversed. Workers’ misery and Islam-defined injustice are inverted into...

Move comes amid concerns that Trump delegation could help Bolsonaro family cast doubt on electronic voting ahead of October’s presidential election SÃO PAULO—Brazil has denied visas to two senior Trump administration officials who were planning to travel to the country, amid concerns that they sought to undermine confidence in the electronic-voting system before October’s presidential election. The move comes as fears deepen in Brazil that the Bolsonaro family is working with President Trump and his allies to unseat leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and help return the Brazilian right to power. Former president Jair Bolsonaro is serving a...

Homeschooling is legal in Brazil but a judge has just sentenced two parents to 50 days in prison for “intellectual neglect” because their 11- and 15-year-old daughters, accomplished pianists and polyglots, received no classes on gender theory, sex education, tolerance, diversity and Afro-Brazilian culture. The court argued that they would suffer in their personal lives and interactions with people of their own age from not knowing the Brazilian funk music style, which romantizes crime, life in favelas and is hyper-sexualized. Apart from being accomplished pianists, the two girls speak Portuguese, English and Latin. They also read 30+ classic books per...

A self-proclaimed psychic has tearfully claimed that aliens are about to invade the planet and are targeting the World Cup game between Scotland and Brazil on Wednesday in Miami. Vo Bahiana, a Brazilian spiritualist with over 23million followers on social media, outlined her prediction in a video that has gone viral across social media. She claims she has had two dreams about the invasion. She predicted that aliens would come out from a spacecraft hovering above Miami's Hard Rock Stadium, which is set to be packed full with 65,000 fans for the standout game of the day at the World...

The Brazilian government has temporarily suspended the rollout of the world’s first single dose dengue vaccine. There have been reports of two deaths and 42 cases of serious adverse reactions after inoculation. The vaccine, developed by the Butantan Institute, has been administered to approximately 500,000 individuals. “The Ministry of Health reported 42 cases, or 0.008 percent of the 500,000 doses given through May 30, though officials are unsure if the vaccine caused the problems. This pause serves as a precautionary measure to respect life and science, allowing deeper probes by the Ministry of Health, Anvisa, and the Butantan Institute, especially...

Two helicopters collided over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday, killing all six people aboard the aircraft. American musician Oliver Tree, 32, was among the deceased individuals. According to Rio de Janeiro’s military fire department, one of the helicopters crashed on a car dealership, which ignited a fire. “The Brazilian Air Force (FAB), through the Center for the Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Cenipa), informs that, on Sunday (14), investigators from the Third Regional Service for the Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Seripa 3), based in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), were called to carry out the initial action...

April 20 — At least three senior United Nations officials are suspected of taking multi-million dollar bribes from the Saddam Hussein regime, U.S. and European intelligence sources tell ABCNEWS. One year after his fall, U.S. officials say they have evidence, some in cash, that Saddam diverted to his personal bank accounts approximately $5 billion from the United Nations Oil-for-Food program. In what has been described as the largest humanitarian aid effort ever undertaken, the U.N. Oil-for-Food program began in 1996 to help Iraqis who were suffering under sanctions imposed following the first Gulf War. The program allowed Iraq to sell...

Dementia is a degenerative disease that no known drug can completely stop or reverse, despite decades of tests. Now, a historically vilified psychedelic is emerging as a possible new avenue for controlling Alzheimer's symptoms. Neuroscientists around the world are starting to investigate if psilocybin – the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms – can help protect the aging brain. A recent case study in Brazil hints at that tantalizing possibility. It reports that after a patient in her 80s with advanced Alzheimer's disease took a high dose of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, she temporarily regained bladder control and the ability to speak beyond...

Brazilian Senator and presidential contender Flavio Bolsonaro met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the ​White House on Tuesday as he looks to move past a scandal ‌that has dented his popularity with voters ahead of Brazil's election later this year. The encounter took place in the Oval Office and was closed to the press, but the senator spoke to ​journalists at a press conference in Washington after the meeting. The senator, the ​eldest son of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, said Trump asked him ⁠about his father, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his ​involvement in...

A U.S. citizen was found not guilty Tuesday of illegally voting in the 2018 election when she was a lawful permanent resident of the United States. A guilty verdict would have led to up to 18 months in prison for Maria Dearaujo, 63. But Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Chris Brown sided with the defense’s argument of entrapment. This generally entails a government actor leading a person into committing a crime they wouldn’t have otherwise committed. Brown, a Democrat, said Dearaujo’s trial testimony lines up with the documentary evidence. She admitted to “inconvenient” facts like having voted when she knew...

These figures are based on annualized data from January to November 2025, compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and reported by Visual Capitalist and other sources. The United States is the world’s largest oil producer, followed by Russia and Saudi Arabia, with the top 10 countries supplying over 70% of global crude oil.United States 16.1%Russia 11.7%Saudi Arabia 11.3%Canada 5.9%Iraq 5.2%China 5.1%Iran 5.0%United Arab Emirates 4.5%Brazil 4.4%Kuwait 3.1%

AwakenedOutlaw repostedJoshua Philipp@JoshJPhilipp·7hPresident Trump prevented a major war in South America.Right before Nicolás Maduro was captured, Venezuela was preparing to invade Guyana over one of the world’s largest offshore oil discoveries.US special operations forces moved in before the conflict could spiral into a regional war and humanitarian crisis that would have sent waves of migrants across the region.And somehow, the mainstream media barely wants to talk about it.May 20, 2026

A Brazilian man has 'come back from the dead' after a funeral home realised he was still breathing as they prepared his body for his wake. Juraci Rosa Alves was admitted to a hospital on May 16, where a doctor declared him dead due to respiratory failure. A funeral home was then called and Alves, 88, was transported there for standard post-death procedures. But while staff were preparing the body for the wake, they detected signs of life. Jacqueline Brogiato, the funeral home's technical nursing supervisor, told local media: 'Our funeral staff carried out the transfer as a standard procedure....

A glamorous lawyer who has amassed a following online for reenacting her gangbanger clients’ cases is suspected of helping out the criminals she defended in court. Viral attorney Gabriela Vieira Serafin’s home in the southern Brazilian city of Florianopolis was raided by drug enforcement agents on Tuesday morning as investigators suspect she may have used her privileged access to inmates to pass messages to and from gangsters on the outside. Serafin was not home at the time and has not yet been charged with a crime — however police discovered and seized two cell phones, SIM cards, USB drives and...