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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro faced mounting legal pressure on Friday, as investigators probed his personal finances and communications while a jailed former aide mulled confessing to...

By Ricardo Brito and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro faced mounting legal pressure on Friday, as investi...

A Brazilian hacker told a congressional inquiry on Thursday that former President Jair Bolsonaro asked him to tamper with an electronic voting machine to show Brazil's electoral system was vulnerable to fraud during last year's presidential campaign. Computer programmer Walter Delgatti told lawmakers he met in August with then-President Bolsonaro, who asked him to discuss the idea with experts at the defense ministry and offered to pardon him if he suffered legal consequences. "He...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian hacker told a congressional inquiry on Thursday that former President Jair Bolsonaro asked him to tamper with an electronic voting machine to show Brazil's electoral system was vulnerable to fraud during last year's presidential campaign.

Approval of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvas government increased in August on voter perceptions that Brazils economy is improving and he is doing a good job governing, a new Genial/Quaest... -Today at 09:20 am- MarketScreener

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Brazilian police on Friday raided the addresses of a lawyer to former President Jair Bolsonaro and the family of his jailed personal aide to investigate the alleged sale of jewelry and other presents from Arab governments. The search warrant issued by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes followed police allegations that Bolsonaro's aides used government resources for their personal advantage. A Federal Police statement said those under investigation "are suspected of using the s...

Corkwoman Fiona Murphy has travelled the world teaching and creating art

Brazil's has 1.69 million Indigenous people, almost twice as many as previously acknowledged by the state, according to numbers announced on Monday by the national statistics agency IBGE from the 2022 census. In 2010, the IBGE had counted 896,917 indigenous people. Government officials said the 88% increase was due to changes in methodology by census teams that traveled to remote villages in the Amazon rainforest to count indigenous population for the first time.

By Leonardo Benassatto and Ueslei Marcelino BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) - Raoni Metuktire, an Indigenous chief from Brazil's Amazon, will urge the region's