BRASILIA, BRAZIL – JUNE 23: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro looks on during ceremony to inaugurate the Main Spacial Operations Center (COPE-P) amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at the Comando de Operações Aeroespaciais on June 23, 2020 in Brasilia. Brazil has over 1.145,000 confirmed positive cases of Coronavirus and 52,645 deaths. (Photo by Andressa Anholete/Getty Images)…
Coronavirus cases are rising sharply in South America, made worse by inequality, reports Luke Taylor from Bogotá, Colombia. A demonstrator’s placard reads “30,000 deaths, ‘so what?’” at a pro-democracy protest in Manaus, Brazil, on 2 June – BRUNO KELLY/Reuters/PA Images CONFIRMED cases of COVID-19 have surged in South America in recent weeks. As daily infections surpassed…
At least 30 people have been killed following more than two days of torrential rains in the southeast of the country. The severe weather comes one year after a dam break killed nearly 300 people. Two days of torrential downpours have unleashed heavy flooding and landslides in southeast Brazil, killing at least 30 people, according to authorities. Civil…
“Shmuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers; and the spirit of Hashem gripped David from that day on. Shmuel then set out for Rama.” I Samuel 16:13 (The Israel Bible™) Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen during a visit at the Western Wall,…
The number of fires this year in the Amazon is the highest since 2010, reaching more than 90,000 active fires. Farmers and ranchers routinely use fires to clear the forest. But this year’s number reflects a worrisome uptick in the rate of deforestation, which had started to drop around 2005 before rebounding earlier this decade….
The Amazon has been on fire for the last three weeks. And those blazes — they’re actually visible from space — have resulted in widespread outrage and alarm among lawmakers, environmental activists, and celebrities. This year, the number of fires in Brazil is the highest on record since 2013 and is up by 85 percent…
Dengue fever Aedes aegypti/CDC Brazil health officials are reporting a dramatic increase in dengue fever cases during the first 23 weeks of 2019, according to recent data from the country’s Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. From Jan. 1 through June 8, 1,127,244 probable dengue cases were registered in the country (excluding discarded cases- some 300,000)….
The three Northern Triangle nations have done little to provide for the poor. Central American refugees ride a cargo truck in Mexico. Photographer: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are, by all accounts, countries ravaged by gang violence, drug trafficking and extreme poverty. It’s these elements that have driven wave after wave of illegal immigration to…
Both Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital – AHMAD GHARABLI (AFP/File) Both Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital. The Arab League on Tuesday adopted a resolution calling on Australia and Brazil to “abide by international law” concerning the status of Jerusalem. It comes after Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro announced in…
A four-year-old girl died last week, becoming the latest scorpion victim in Brazil, where 184 people died from stings last year. Specialists in Brazil have warned of the rising danger of deadly scorpions amid a spiralling number of reported deaths and bites by the hardy arachnids which are proliferating in the country’s urban centres. The…