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Next month's Copa America soccer tournament will take place in Brazil, the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said on Monday, as it thanked President Jair Bolsonaro for stepping in after original host Argentina pulled out after a surge of COVID-19 cases. The surprise decision, which relocates the competition from one…

A man wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) walks past a grocery store painted with graffitis depicting Diego Maradona, Carlos Tevez and Juan Roman Riquelme, after CONMEBOL announced Argentina pulled out hosting the Copa America, in Buenos Aires, Argentina May 31, 2021. REUTERS/Agustin…

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Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN)Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets Saturday to voice their frustrations with President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the Covid-19 crisis, in what appeared to be the largest protests the country has seen since the pandemic began last year. Demonstrators in some of the country's…

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World Demonstrators in Brazil burn a doll representing President Jair Bolsonaro during a rally in Rio de Janeiro on May 29, 2021 AFP/Andre Borges 30 May 2021 06:05AM (Updated: 30 May 2021 10:22AM) RIO DE JANEIRO: Tens of thousands of people in Brazil staged another day of protest against President…

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro visited two indigenous reservations in the Amazon on Thursday for the first time as head of state, despite protests from some tribal leaders against his drive to open up their protected lands to commercial mining. Bolsonaro, flanked by army officers and wearing a feather head-dress, watched…

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro listens to national anthem next to a Tukano indigenous person in the Balaio reservation in the Upper Rio Negro river region of Amazonas state, bordering Colombia and Venezuela, near Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brasil May 27, 2021. Marcos Correa/Handout via REUTERS 
 BRASILIA, May 28 (Reuters)…

Jair Bolsonaro faces mounting public pressure and a Senate inquiry into his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a COVID-19 sceptic who has refused to enact public health measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus, has been fined for failing to adhere to health safety…

(RNS) — On the day before Easter Sunday, Kassio Nunes Marques, Brazil’s newest Supreme Federal Court justice, appointed just months before by President Jair Bolsonaro, allowed houses of worship across the COVID-19-ravaged country to hold worship services indoors, claiming the bans put in place by mayors and governors on religious…