After Brazil’s biggest party was effectively canceled for the second straight year, a group of artists rallied to play on despite police orders.
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Your Monday Briefing: Ukraine Agrees to Talks
Plus new research into the pandemic’s origins and North Korea’s latest missile test.
Brazil, Land of the Thong, Embraces Its Heavier Self
A country known for beach bodies is confronting soaring obesity rates with new laws that enshrine protections for people who are overweight.
Russia Vetoes UN Security Council Resolution Calling on it to Withdraw from Ukraine
Eleven countries voted in favor of the U.S.-backed measure, and three abstained.
A World Away From Ukraine, Russia Is Courting Latin America
The Ukraine crisis has revived a struggle over Latin America between the U.S. and Russia, as Vladimir V. Putin seeks greater influence in the region.
Brazil’s Joe Rogan Faces His Own Firestorm Over Free Speech
Bruno Aiub became one of Brazil’s biggest podcasters with irreverent interviews of newsmakers. Now remarks about Nazis plunged him into a controversy akin to his idol’s.
Brazil’s Joe Rogan Faces His Own Firestorm Over Free Speech
Bruno Aiub became one of Brazil’s biggest podcasters with irreverent interviews of newsmakers. Now remarks about Nazis plunged him into a controversy akin to his idol’s.
Black Authors Shake Up Brazil’s Literary Scene
Young Black Brazilians are publishing on their own terms, achieving the critical and commercial success that eluded past generations of writers from marginalized communities.
Olavo de Carvalho, Bolsonaro’s Far-Right Guru, Dies at 74
He was the intellectual leader of Brazil’s far-right movement and a conspiracy theorist who mocked the pandemic. He died days after announcing he had Covid.
Covid setbacks to schooling are ‘nearly insurmountable,’ the U.N. says.
Many millions of children have “significantly missed out” on the academic learning they would have acquired in the classroom, the United Nations Children’s Fund said in a new report.