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The league announced Tuesday that the Eagles’ opening game of the 2024 NFL season, played on Friday, Sept. 6, in Sao Paolo, Brazil, will air exclusively on NBC’s Peacock streaming service.

The Brazilian newspaper O Globo revealed on Wednesday that prosecutors in the country are pursuing charges of money laundering and fraud against 25-year-old Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the youngest son of the nation’s eponymous ex-president.

Brazil indicted conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly falsifying proof of ingestion of a Wuhan coronavirus vaccine.

More than a dozen Brazilian lawmakers led by Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and current member of the chamber of deputies, denounced the persecution that opponents of radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are being subjected to in a Tuesday Congress hearing.

Indian police on Sunday detained four men and continued their manhunt for three others who allegedly attacked a Spanish tourist couple, beat them both, and gang-raped the woman.

President Joe Biden’s State Department allowed a convicted child rapist from Brazil to come to the United States on a B-2 tourist visa, federal officials reveal.

Officials overseeing the Brazilian Amazon registered almost 3,000 fires during February, marking a new record for the South American country, according to data released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

Brazil’s far-left socialist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he hopes Joe Biden wins the 2024 presidential election.

The recent stream of antisemitic comments issued by radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Brazilian government’s condemnations of Israel are fueling fear of possible “lone-wolf” jihadist attacks, the Argentine news agency Infobae reported on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians flocked to the streets of São Paulo Sunday to express their support for former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Participants at an ongoing meeting of the top diplomats of G20 states achieved “virtual unanimity” on demanding the establishment of a state of “Palestine” carved out of Israel, host country Brazil declared on Thursday – in apparent disregard of the fact that both Israel and the government of Gaza, the terrorist organization Hamas, reject that proposal.

A 19-year-old Brazilian social media influencer is calling for justice after saying she was drugged, beaten, and raped by a group of male influencers at a party.

The United States reportedly hopes that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will use his “influence” to help Venezuela.

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister of Diaspora affairs, called out U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday for “rushing to embrace a Holocaust-denying antisemite” by meeting with Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira accused the Israeli government on Tuesday of “lying” about recent public comments in which far-left President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva compared Israel’s self-defense operations against Hamas to the Holocaust.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Havana on Monday, kicking off a tour of Latin America by condemning the United States for its “blackmail, ultimatums, threats” against Russia and Cuba.

The government of Israel declared Brazil’s far-left President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva persona non grata on Monday in response to comments in which Lula compared Israel’s self-defense operations against Hamas to the Holocaust.

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, caused outrage Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by comparing Israel’s war against Hamas to the Holocaust, then defending Russian president Vladimir Putin in the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to start a new tour in Latin America next week, including scheduled visits to Cuba and Venezuela before heading to Brazil for a G20 foreign minister meeting, the Russian state-run TASS news agency announced on Wednesday.

Joseph Humire, executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society, warned that Iran could expand its influence in Latin America.

Latin American countries began their yearly four-day Carnival festivities, an especially significant celebration to Brazil.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Monday to have targeted and damaged an “American ship” in the Red Sea with an “accurate and direct” missile strike.

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to hand over his passport – effectively trapping him in the country – as part of a broad probe into an alleged “coup” plot following Bolsonaro’s defeat in the 2022 presidential election.

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva and Supreme Federal Tribunal Minister Alexandre de Moraes made calls for the regulation of social media.

Jerônimo Rodrigues, the Gov. of Bahia, Brazil, is celebrating his successful efforts to ban water pistols at this year’s upcoming Bahia Carnival. 

Brazil’s Federal Police raided the house of Carlos Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, on Monday morning.

Brazil’s Federal Police acted to fulfill 47 warrants on Monday against people suspected of financing the January 8, 2023, Brasilia riot.

The anti-American BRICS economic and security coalition will welcome five new members on January 1: a country in a severe economic crisis, another openly defaulting on its sovereign debt, and two countries embroiled in a proxy war against each other.

The world is approaching the conclusion of President Joe Biden’s third year in office in a state of elevated geopolitical chaos.

Brazil’s Senate approved the nomination of pro-censorship Justice Minister Flavio Dino to the nation’s top court.

The Brazilian national newspaper O Globo reported on Monday that socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rejected a request from Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to meet with him during a stopover in Brasilia this week.

Actress Florence Pugh was struck in the face by an object thrown at her by a fan at Brazil’s comic con on Sunday.

CARACAS, Venezuela — The socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro is preparing to hold a sham referendum on Sunday that asks voters “what to do” to address a 120-year-old territorial dispute with neighboring Guyana.

President Joe Biden’s State Department gave a tourist visa to a Brazilian national convicted of raping a child, federal officials detailed.

Argentine President-elect Javier Milei won the nation’s top office on November 19 by standing against many of the policies and values that define the administration of his American counterpart Joe Biden – and presents a serious challenge to Biden’s Latin America policy.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lionel Messi led his Argentina lineup off the field and into the locker rooms because of a brawl between rival fans in Brazil, delaying the start of their South American World Cup qualifier by 27 minutes Tuesday at the Maracana Stadium.