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By Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo BritoBRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned Latin American governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus throughout the region.A new Brazilian…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - One of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks, a paralyzed economy sending investors fleeing for the exit, and accusations that he has undermined Brazil’s young democracy have not loosened President Jair Bolsonaro’s grip on power. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro arrives to the inauguration ceremony of a temporary field…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian states are bolstering the fight against destruction of the Amazon rainforest with millions of dollars from an oil company’s corruption settlement that allows them to partially compensate for weakening environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro. FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of a tract of Amazon jungle…

FILE PHOTO: Director of the Pan American Health Organization Carissa Etienne speaks to the media during a meeting of Public Health ministers of the Mercosur trade block in Montevideo February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Stapff/File PhotoBRASILIA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization’s regional director for the Americas urged the United States…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro urged his supporters on Monday to put off their protests against the country's Supreme Court next weekend after counter-demonstrations triggered violent clashes on Sunday."Leave things alone on Sunday," the right-wing president said, referring to the protests. He spoke at the gates of his…

Image copyright EPA Image caption Covid-19 tests are carried in a rural area near Manaus in Amazonas state The number of coronavirus fatalities in Brazil has risen by almost 1,000 in a day, making the country's overall death toll the world's fourth highest.Its figure of 28,834 has now surpassed France,…

Tyron Woodley returns to the Octagon on Saturday to face Gilbert Burns. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, ... Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) MediaNews Group via Getty Images Former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is back, and so is the UFC. Woodley, who is still the No. 1-ranked contender in the UFC’s welterweight…

Relatives react during the burial of 64-year-old Raimunda Conceicao Souza, who died from COVID-19, at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil's biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 22, 2020. REUTERS/Ama… Read More

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BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned on Tuesday that new coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the tri-border area of the Amazon between Brazil, Colombia and Peru and threatens to infect remote indigenous communities in the rainforest. PAHO directors urged in a virtual briefing that special measures…