The country’s justice minister said the right-wing former president bears “a political responsibility” for the attack on “the buildings of the three branches of powers, aiming at a coup d’état.” Brazilian Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Monday that “about 1,500” people have been arrested since supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro attacked government buildings in […]
“For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth,” said one Indigenous rights campaigner. Activists and conservationists worldwide mourned Monday following news that a man believed to be the last of a remote Brazilian tribe was found dead after years of resisting all efforts […]
“At this rate, we will not be able to keep global warming below 1.5ºC, a target defined in the Paris agreement,” said the conservation institute Imazon. Encouraged by President Jair Bolsonaro, deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged to its highest annual level in a decade over the past year, with researchers warning that the accelerated destruction […]
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – The United States has blocked imports from the world’s top rubber glove maker just as health care workers are facing a new surge of coronavirus cases in some states. U.S. Customs and Border Protection imposed a “withhold release order” on two subsidiaries of Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp. on Wednesday over […]