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countdown to britains first ever space launch. we are going to be live in cornwall, where the mission is taking off. lets start in brazil. security forces there have detained over 1,000 people after supporters of the former president jair bolsonaro stormed government buildings. this was the scene in brasilia — the capital — on sunday. thousands of demonstrators were involved. in the last few hours, brazilian authorities have issued a statement branding the riots "terrorist acts of ...

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In today’s newsletter: For years Jair Bolsonaro set the anti-democratic tone that fomented Sunday’s attacks. Our Latin America correspondent explains how

Of the damage there. richard lapper is a journalist and expert on bolsonaro — heres his take. the kind of gratuitous snatching up of modernist artworks — which, of course, they detest. theyre breaking up electronic machinery, they are smashing glass, using security barriers to smash the glass of the supreme court. and then theyre taking selfies of themselves, right? everyones taking selfies. its kind of like a works outing gone mad — like everyones had too much to drink and theyve decided ...

Brazil’s runoff election underscored the country’s deep divides. Despite protests contesting his win, President-elect Lula says his focus will be on unity.

We were joined from Sao Paulo by the author Richard Lapper, who's written a book about the rise of right-wing populism in Brazil entitled Beef, Bible and Bullets - Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro.

Lapper’s Beef, Bible and Bullets provides an excellent guide through Brazil’s current political complexities and the man who would be Trump. It is strongly recommended.

“I’ve got five kids but on the fifth I had a moment of weakness and it came out as a girl”, Jair Bolsonaro said in 2017, a year prior to

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COVID-19: UN experts urge WTO cooperation on vaccines to protect global public health Format GENEVA (1 March 2021) – UN experts said today billions of people, especially in the Global South, risk being excluded from the benefits of COVID-19 immunisation until 2024 and urged rich States to end short-sighted vaccine nationalism that is fuelling a vaccine-divide and undermining worldwide recovery. “Recovery from the pandemic is impossible unless it ends for everyone. New mutating forms of the ...