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The Federal Police of Brazil, cooperating with the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency, announced on Wednesday that it had arrested two people in Sao Paulo with ties to Hezbollah, preventing a terrorist attack on Jewish community centers.

Another attempt by the United Nations Security Council to address the October 7 Hamas massacre of over 1,200 people in Israel failed on Wednesday as permanent members China and Russia vetoed an American-drafted resolution, supported by most Council members, that would have condemned the jihadist terrorist group.

Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said Brazil is worried about a possible victory by conservative Javier Milei in Argentina’s Sunday presidential election.

The United Nations Security Council once again failed to address the October 7 mass murder of civilians in Israel by the terrorist organization Hamas.

The government of Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called another meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, set for Friday, to address the aftermath of the harrowing jihadist attack on Israeli civilians last weekend by Hamas.

An estimated 10,000 people answered a call to attend the funeral on Tuesday night of Bruna Valeanu, 24, a Brazilian immigrant to Israel murdered by Hamas terrorists during the ongoing assault on Israel that began on Friday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva engaged in a meeting on Wednesday evening that reportedly lasted more than an hour – following months of tensions and personal swipes that began when Lula, still a presidential candidate, insulted Zelensky as a “nice comedian.”

Six students from Santo Amaro University have been expelled after viral video emerged of their disgusting masturbation stunt.

Brazil’s radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened Tuesday’s U.N. General Assembly declaring, “Brazil is back.”

Brazilian citizens protested the presence of their country’s president, radical leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in New York City on Sunday, branding him a “thief” and a “communist.”

The United Nations General Assembly’s general debate begins on Tuesday, expected to bring over 140 leaders to New York to discuss this year’s theme of “restoring trust” – and resist Western pressure for the Ukraine war to dominate the conversation.

The highest court in Brazil sentenced two of the first defendants implicated in the January 8 riot to 17 years in prison on Thursday.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s fatal plane crash might have been caused on purpose, but Russia will not allow an investigation measuring up to international standards to discover the truth.

Russian state media outlets, citing alleged sources close to the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), reported that the head of that organization Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried in a small, private service in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, preventing hoards of supporters from organizing a mass gathering.

Larissa Borges, a Brazilian fitness influencer, has died at the age of 33 after suffering a double cardiac arrest. No official cause of death has been given.

Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa is in Brazil on Monday to discuss the details of an agreement with radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that would allow Argentina to pay for Brazilian imports using the Chinese yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, the Argentina state-run Télam news agency reported.

A delegation of “progressive” Democrats led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) visited Chile, Brazil, and Colombia.

Former liberation theologian Friar Clodovis Boff has blamed Liberation Theology for the sharp decline of Catholic belief and practice in his native Brazil.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro paid the government of São Paulo about $184,000 in fines on Wednesday for not wearing a mask.

Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday that he hopes to see more American investments in Brazil’s green energy projects one week after failing to invite President Joe Biden to an environmental summit despite Biden pledging $500 million to Lula’s Amazon fund.

Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo criticized one of his “heroes,” Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Thursday over the latter allegedly not doing enough to protect the Amazon Rainforest during a regional summit.

The China-led BRICS trade and security bloc will reportedly discuss reducing their reliance on the U.S. dollar for trade during their upcoming South Africa summit — furthering plans to diminish American influence around the world.

Brazil failed to invite the United States to participate in the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) summit beginning on Tuesday – a notable omission given that President Joe Biden pledged 2.5 billion Brazilian reais ($500 million) to Brazil’s Amazon Fund this year.

Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree over the weekend that authorizes the purchase of electricity from neighboring Venezuela, a nation plagued with daily blackouts as a result of years of gross socialist mismanagement.

Illegal Chinese fishing boats are plundering some of the Brazilian Amazon’s most fertile fishing grounds, sweeping up a wide variety of species including endangered fish, and significantly harming the national fishing trade, a local mayor told the Argentine news outlet Infobae in a report published Tuesday.

Brazilian Senator Luis Carlos Heinze introduced a bill on Monday that seeks to suspend the new “Responsible Gun Control” decree issued by radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last week.

Climate activists projected a “Climate Clock” on the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over the weekend, claiming that the world has “less than six years left” to stop climate change and avoid “catastrophic scenarios.”

Brazil’s President Lula dismissed Chilean counterpart Gabriel Boric as a “hasty young man” for demanding Latin American leaders condemn Russia for invading Ukraine.

Brazil announced a police investigation of Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, for
condemning “teachers who indoctrinate.”

Peruvian officials on Sunday announced they had intercepted 23 Afghans in the custody of migrant traffickers operating along the border with Brazil. The migrants included four children, one of them a two-month-old baby.

President Joe Biden’s State Department gave a B-2 tourist visa to a Brazilian national convicted of murder. The man ultimately overstayed his visa and had to be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Chinese electric carmaker BYD announced on Tuesday that it will invest $620 million to build a new electric vehicle industrial complex in Brazil, a dramatic expansion of its operations in Latin America.

A seven-judge panel in Brazil on Friday barred former president Jair Bolsonaro from running for office until 2030, effectively ending his hopes for a political comeback after narrowly losing to left-wing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was himself convicted of taking bribes in 2017.

Over 100 million Americans in 23 states suffered a dramatic collapse in their air quality this week as a result of Canadian wildfire smoke.

The Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) has moved to strip conservative network Jovem Pan of its three radio broadcasting licenses.

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