Tag: Brazil

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 15:31 UTC

  Lula's party expected to announce Haddad as the presidential candidate

  

  Jailed former Brazilian president Lula da Silva is expected to allow his Workers Party to announce running mate Fernando Haddad as its candidate, following the latest ruling from the Supreme Court. Lula had hoped the Justices would agree to an appeal for more time to switch the head of the Workers Party (PT) ticket after Brazil’s top electoral court last week banned him from running due to a corruption conviction and gave him 10 days to remove his name.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 09:29 UTC

  El Niño 2018/19 could be a repeat of 2015/16, cautions WMO

  

  There's a 70% chance of a recurrence of the El Niño weather event before the end of this year, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The last El Niño occurred in 2015-16 and impacted weather patterns around the world, but researchers say they are not expecting this new one to be as intense as 2015-16.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Japan insists with a “Sustainable Whaling Committee” to replace moratorium on whale hunting

  

  Pro and anti-whaling nations locked horns on Monday as the International Whaling Commission (IWC) began meeting in Brazil amid outrage over Japan's proposal to end a three-decade moratorium on commercial whale hunting.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Brazil criminal gang breaks into top security jail and let 100 inmates escape

  

  Heavily armed men blew down the front gate of a maximum security prison in northeastern Brazil early Monday and with guns blazing, enabled more than 100 inmates to escape while killing a policeman, authorities said.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  Lula waiting for Supreme Court decision before giving up his presidential candidacy

  

  Brazil's imprisoned former president Lula da Silva will not yet bow out of next month's presidential race, waiting first to hear a Supreme Court decision on an appeal of his ban from running, his legal team said. His decision takes his leftist Workers' Party (PT) close to the limit on registering a candidate for the October 7 election, with a court having set Tuesday as the deadline for the PT to name a replacement nominee.

• Monday, September 10th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Army chief warns politicians about “further dividing Brazilian society”

  

  The head of Brazil’s military has issued a warning against the presidential candidacy of the country’s imprisoned former leader Lula da Silva, who has been banned from standing for office on corruption charges.

• Monday, September 10th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Pro and anti-whaling nations clash in Brazil; renewed attempt to create a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary

  

  Pro and anti-whaling nations are set for a showdown when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meets in Brazil from Monday as Japan leads an assault on a three-decade old moratorium on commercial whale hunting. Tokyo heads into the biennial meeting as chair of the 88-nation body determined to shake-up what it says is a dysfunctional organization mired in dispute and unable to make key decisions.

• Monday, September 10th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Bolsonaro recovering from abdominal stabbing: functions returning and he walked a few steps

  

  The health of Brazil’s far-right leading and poll-leading presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was markedly improved after he was stabbed last week at a campaign rally, the hospital where he is being treated said on Sunday.

• Saturday, September 8th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Bolsonaro's condition stable: optimism about his recovery and resumption of campaigning

  

  The leading candidate in Brazil's presidential race who was transferred to the Albert Einstein Israelite hospital in Sao Paulo for further treatment after being stabbed at a campaign rally, is stable and recovering according to medical and official reports.

• Saturday, September 8th 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Brazilian court overturns ban on products containing glyphosate

  

  A Brazilian court this week overturned an injunction banning products containing the herbicide glyphosate, knocking down a previous ruling that had been set to disrupt the soy planting season set to begin this month.