According to local outlet Folha, the planning was being carried out by Hezbollah operatives

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It was supposed to be a good-news story out of the damaged Amazon rainforest: a project that replanted hundreds of thousands of trees in an illegally deforested nature reserve in Brazil.

President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva unveiled a pact on workers' rights Wednesday, as the pro-union US leader grapples with a major auto employees' strike at home.

Worried by the surge of skyscrapers fast replacing the houses and historic buildings in her Sao Paulo neighborhood, Rosanne Brancatelli put up a sign on her street: "Don't take away our sun."

"Cuba has been an advocate of fairer global governance. And to this day it is the victim of an illegal economic embargo," President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said.

Brazil is a leading country in ethanol-blended gasoline, and has successfully achieved a 25% level.

The huge marijuana fair opened its first international edition Friday in Sao Paulo, complete with DJs, guest speakers, myriad pot products and a large outdoor space packed with hundreds of visitors, nearly all of them smoking up.

As the world order goes through a kind of reshuffling, Brasília is expanding its strategic partnership with India as part of the countries' shared vision for a multipolar order.

The sentence came after a lawsuit was filed against Uber in November 2021 with Brazil's public prosecutor's office.

Brazil's 11-member high court has had just three black justices in its 132-year history, all of them men.

This initiative is a joint effort by the Amazon nations to combat criminal activity in the world's largest rainforest.

Brazil's high court opened the first trials over the January 8 riots in Brasilia by supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, who were demanding the ouster of his successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Pismo is the latest big success story of a Brazilian company in the fintech sector -- the one luring the most venture capital in Brazil and Latin America in general. With more than 450 employees and five offices around the world, Pismo was acquired by Visa in June in one of the biggest deals yet in the Brazilian tech sector.

Things are awkward between the commander-in-chief and the armed forces, which were heavily involved in the government of Lula's predecessor and nemesis, far-right ex-army captain Jair Bolsonaro.

Hundreds of Indigenous protesters, many in traditional feather headdresses, rallied in the capital Brasilia as the court weighed the legality of the so-called "time-frame argument," which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988, when the current constitution was ratified.

This berry has been lauded as a way to bring "green development," but experts say it is also threatening biodiversity.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has gathered leaders and high-level officials from South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia for a two-day summit on charting shared strategies to protect the world's tropical forests.

Starting next year, students aged 14 and over at 5,300 schools across Brazil's most populous state will study on digital media, except for literature classes, state education officials said.

The news about the drop in deforestation comes ahead of the Amazon Summit, which will take place in Belém from Aug. 8 to 9.

The exact cause of the explosion of the silo, which stored about 40,000 metric tons of corn and 12,000 metric tons of soybeans, is yet to be determined.

The last time Brazil recorded a lower number of violent deaths was in 2011 when the total reached 47,215 killings.

These futuristic aircraft, manufactured by Embraer's subsidiary Eve, are expected to be operational and flying passengers from 2026.

The Brazilian meat lobby ABPA stated that this represents the second favorable advancement in bilateral trade this year.

The apartment building collapsed during heavy rainfall, catching residents off guard as they were still asleep at the time of the incident.

Manioca has become an invaluable member of the homicide unit, making history as the first dog in Latin America trained to detect human blood.

Brazil economists are anticipating deeper monetary easing in the coming months and improved inflation prospects until 2026.