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Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 10:38 UTC
Meta tells Brazil end of fact-checking limited to the US

The end of the fact-checking service provided by Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp owning Meta has only been implemented in the United States (US), at least for the time being. The company made those remarks to Brazil's Federal Attorney General's Office (AGU) checking the company's compliance to the legislation in force in the South American country.
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Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 08:47 UTC
Brazil’s 2024/25 harvest production estimated to reach 322.2 million tons, with soy exports of 105 million tons

Brazilian farmers should harvest 322,2 million tons of grains from the 2024/25 crop, representing an 8,2% increase over 2023/24, equivalent to an additional 24.5 million tons, according to the latest estimates from Conab, the county’s National Supply Company.
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Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 10:55 UTC
Brazil’s reacts to Meta’s decision to drop fact checking program, “social media will not become a lawless land”

Brazil’s government and Justice Branch have reacted strongly to Meta’s announcement to abandon its fact checking program. The country’s newly appointed Communication Minister Sidonio Palmeira criticized Meta's decision, calling it “bad for democracy.”
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Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 10:23 UTC
Lula signs into law the banning of cell phones in elementary schools

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed Monday into law Bill 104/2015 restricting the use of portable electronic devices such as cell phones in public and private elementary schools nationwide. A presidential decree is due in the next 30 days to regulate the measure so that it becomes valid by the start of the school year in February. The bill was approved by Congress at the end of last year.
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Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 10:18 UTC
Former Bariloche official shot in Rio dies

A 51-year-old Argentine traveler who was mugged and shot in the head in a Rio de Janeiro favela on Dec. 12, 2024, after mistakenly following GPS directions, died Monday after nearly a month in the Souza Aguiar Municipal Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Gastón Burlón was a former Tourism Secretary in the Patagonian skiing resort of Bariloche until 2023.
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Monday, January 13th 2025 - 21:06 UTC
Venezuela reopens borders with Colombia and Brazil

Venezuela's Bolivarian regime Monday reopened the borders with Colombia and Brazil it had closed ahead of Friday's inauguration of Nicolás Maduro as President for a third consecutive six-year term. The measure had been adopted due to an alleged “international conspiracy” following the controversial July 28, 2024, elections the Opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) of retired diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia also claimed to have won.
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Sunday, January 12th 2025 - 03:45 UTC
Macron and Lula urge Maduro to resume talks with the opposition

Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil were reported Friday to have spoken on the telephone with Veenezuela's Nicolás Maduro to persuade him to resume talks with the opposition after being inaugurated for a third consecutive six-year term following the controversial July 28, 2024, elections.
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Friday, January 10th 2025 - 10:29 UTC
Presence of serotype 3 of dengue virus worries Brazilian authorities

Brazilian health authorities have expressed concern following the reappearance of the dengue virus serotype 3, particularly in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Amapá, and Paraná since the last four weeks of December, Agência Brasil reported Thursday. The virus has not circulated predominantly in the country since 2008. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the disease generated a “historic epidemic in the Americas” in 2024, with more than 12.6 million cases.
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Thursday, January 9th 2025 - 10:00 UTC
Brazil: Works of art broken during Jan. 8 uprising restored for 2nd anniversary ceremony

Brazilian authorities took delivery Wednesday of some 21 works of art that had been vandalized during the Jan.8, 2023, uprisings in Brasilia ending in hundreds of arrests of alleged followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro and convictions for attacking democracy.
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Wednesday, January 8th 2025 - 09:47 UTC
Last year was the hottest in Brazil since 1961

Last year was the hottest for Brazil since 1961, Agencia Brasil reported citing data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock's National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet). The weather agency also found a rising trend in average annual temperatures.
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