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Brazil’s Moraes demands Bolsonaro conviction in first Supreme Court vote
Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has called for former president Jair Bolsonaro's conviction on five criminal charges, including attempted coup d'état, during the first day of deliberations in Brazil's historic coup trial.
Amazon bets on Rappi to take on MercadoLibre in Latam
Amazon has acquired a stake in Colombian delivery platform Rappi through a $25mn convertible note, gearing up to challenge MercadoLibre's dominance across Latin America's booming e-commerce landscape.
The rise of the Southern Consensus
It’s increasingly looking like a clash of civilisations, isn’t it? In the last 24 hours there was yet another Global South summit where the collective leaders of the world’s biggest countries gathered to show unity in the face of US aggression.
Xi and Putin to join BRICS emergency talks on US trade measures
Brazil's President Lula rallies leaders from emerging economies for a virtual meeting to find a coordinated response to aggressive US trade measures.
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EU pushes trade pacts with Mexico and Mercosur
The European Union has thrown its weight behind two major Latin American trade agreements, formally launching the ratification process for deals with Mercosur and Mexico despite sustained resistance from agricultural nations and farmers.
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Volkswagen's dark Brazilian chapter ends in $30mn court ruling
Volkswagen's Brazilian unit has been ordered to pay $30mn after a court found it had subjected hundreds of workers to slavery-like conditions at an Amazon cattle ranch in the 1970s-80s.
BRICS leaders gather in China to coordinate anti-Trump alliance
The EU’s 27 foreign ministers will debate seizing Russia’s frozen $200bn at an informal gathering in Copenhagen, as the leading BRICS nations gathered in Beijing to form a common strategy to deal with US trade aggression on August 30.
Brazil tightens surveillance of Bolsonaro as coup trial approaches
Brazilian authorities have imposed round-the-clock police monitoring of former president Jair Bolsonaro amid warnings he represents a "concrete flight risk" ahead of his trial on coup-related charges.
US EPA’s controversial Climate Crisis report is full of lies and mistakes
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a controversial report in July claiming the effects of the Climate Crisis were overblown. A fact check by Carbon Brief found it is full of lies and errors.
Mapping global drought risk - Statista
By 2050, more than 1.6bn people, including almost 20% of the African population, will be exposed to severe and extreme droughts, if a pessimistic scenario plays out, according to a report by INFORM Climate Change.
Forest carbon credits are facing a reckoning over albedo risks
Planting trees should reduce the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere right? Well, its not so easy as that. Trees also provide shade and prevent sunlight from reaching the ground that could reflect it back into space, cooling the plant.
Brazilian companies, government mount comprehensive defense against US trade investigation
The cabinet and businesses have urged Washington to reconsider the probe that could impose additional restrictions beyond current 50% tariffs.
The unintended consequence of Trump's tariffs is pushing BRICS together
President Donald Trump’s tariff salvo aimed at some of the BRICS economies is in danger badly of backfiring on US interests by driving the more moderate members of the world’s leading emerging economies into the anti-Western Sino-Russian alliance