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A second scourge is battering Brazil's flooded south: disinformation
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoWhile flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside, another...
CEO of Brazil’s oil and gas giant Petrobras steps down following dustup over dividends
U-T San Diego· 1 hour agoThe head of Brazil’s state-controlled oil and gas giant Petrobras has stepped down, the company said in a prepared statement Wednesday, following months of tensions with the federal government ...
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The Christian Science Monitor· 15 hours agoOn a quiet evening in a New Delhi market, the normal crowd of customers thinned by lockdown rules, Anirban Mukherjee sat exhausted. This is but one story of the heartbreak now playing out daily ...
Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMinutes after it became clear that Javier Milei had been elected president of South America’s...
Floods unite Brazilians in solidarity despite political rift
AFP via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoAt a former railway station in Rio de Janeiro, a fast-growing mountain of food, bottled water and...
Brazil government announces Petrobras chief dismissed
AFP via Yahoo Finance· 16 hours agoThe government of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Tuesday that the CEO of...
This smartphone tool lets Brazilians track government corruption in real time
Fast Company Magazine· 1 day agoShortly before Brazil’s 2022 general election, 69% of the public believed government corruption was widespread. A major problem has been a lack of transparency. Politicians think, “If no one ...
Brazil markets fall as central bank split decision triggers concern about dovish turn
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoBrazil's markets fell on Thursday after the central bank cut rates in a split decision that saw...
Trump Meets Three of the Four Criteria for Fascism
The Bulwark· 2 days agoIN THE INITIAL, HEADY DAYS after Joe Biden’s 2020 victory over Donald Trump, many public commentators played down Trump’s threats of not leaving the...