‘Not afraid,’ Brazil’s Bolsonaro rallies fans despite legal woes

Despite his wide-ranging legal woes, far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro crisscrosses Brazil campaigning, received by rapt crowds seemingly unbothered by claims he helped stoke an attempted coup. Like Donald Trump in America, 69-year-old Bolsonaro has retained a core of radical supporters in a deeply divided country even as the accusations and investigations

Brazil’s Vinicius uses football to stimulate young Brazilian minds

At a primary school in football-mad Brazil, pupils are spurred to academic greatness in classrooms resembling soccer pitches -- with a virtual avatar inspired by star forward Vinicius Junior cheering on every correct answer. Perched on football-patterned cushions on classroom floors of artificial grass, they learn on tablets and smartphones using

Brazil court fines execs, firms $50 mn for deadly metro cave-in

A Brazilian court fined executives and companies including French transportation giant Alstom nearly $50 million for a 2007 collapse at a subway construction site that killed seven people, in a ruling seen by AFP Saturday. A judge for the Sao Paulo state court of justice ordered six then-directors of the municipal

Olympic champions Brazil shocked 1-0 by Paraguay in 2024 qualifier

Olympic champions Brazil suffered a setback in their bid to secure a place at this year's Paris Games after their under-23 team slumped to a shock 1-0 defeat by Paraguay on Monday in the final four South American qualifying tournament. Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Venezuela are competing in a round robin

44 killed in week of deadly police operations in Brazil

Nine people were killed Wednesday in a police operation targeting criminal gangs in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said, the latest in a week of security force raids that have left at least 44 dead across Brazil. The Rio raid came after days of deadly police crackdowns on drug trafficking gangs that

PM for signing trade deals with South American nations

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday stressed the need for signing preferential trade agreement (PTA) or free trade agreement (FTA) with four South American countries as Bangladesh will graduate into a developing country in 2026.The premier’s remarks came when Brazilian Ambassador to Bangladesh Paulo Fernando Dias Feres paid a courtesy call

Lula defeats Bolsonaro to become Brazil’s president

LuizInacio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent JairBolsonaro Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics. With 99.9% of the votes tallied in the runoff vote, da