Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, claims Moraes secretly threatened one of the company’s legal representatives in the South American country with…
From raids to rescues, a survivor of slave labour uncovers the exploitation of workers on Brazilian coffee farms. Jorge Ferreira’s life has been shaped by the coffee farms that surround his home in Brazil, the world’s main producer of coffee. As a young man, he worked in the Minas Gerais…
Social media platform says shutdown ‘effective immediately’ but Brazilian users will still have access to X. Social media giant X has announced it will shutter its operations in Brazil following a legal tussle with a top Brazilian judge over the platform’s rights and responsibilities to counter disinformation. The platform, previously…
One of the pilots flying the Brazilian plane that crashed last week and killed everyone on board sounded the alarm over the impending doom a minute before it went down. A transcript from the cockpit’s “black box” voice recorder revealed that pilots noticed a steep drop in altitude leading up…
Civil defence teams are working to recover bodies of 58 passengers, four crew killed in fiery crash in Sao Paulo state. Authorities in Brazil are working to determine what caused a plane to crash in Sao Paulo state, killing all 62 people on board in one of the worst aviation…
NewsFeed Videos show a passenger plane falling from the sky and crashing in a residential area in Brazil. The airline VoePass said 62 people were on board the plane which was heading for São Paulo’s international airport. Fire officials confirmed the plane went down in Vinhedo in São Paulo state,…
BREAKINGBREAKING, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says all passengers appear to have died, offers condolences to families. The Brazilian airline Voepass has confirmed that a plane carrying 62 people crashed in Vinhedo, near the city of Sao Paulo. In a statement on Friday, the airline said it had…
Less than a year after the global breakout success of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia, a good number of that tournament’s best players will be back; this time, the global football epicentre will be Paris Olympics 2024 with 12 teams fighting for the gold medal. World champions Spain…
Indigenous voices turn to social media to reclaim their identity, creating community and challenging stereotypes one post at a time. Indigenous voices are turning to social media to reclaim their identity, culture and traditions, creating community and challenging stereotypes one post at a time. Brazil used to be home to…
Rambo’s store is one of around 45,000 businesses in the state capital that have been impacted by these devastating floods. Porto Alegre’s Chamber of Store Managers estimates that the total cost to commerce in the city was 487.7 million reals ($91m) between April 29 through May 26. The floods began…
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