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Paulo Paulino Guajajara had left his village on Friday night to look for water when the attack occurred

Illegal loggers kill Amazon 'guardian of the forest'

A Brazilian land defender was killed and a second injured in an ambush by loggers in the Amazon rainforest, regional authorities reported.

News Lens • 03 Nov 19

Photographer Leo Malafaia captured the boy emerging from the sea covered in oil (Photo by Leo Malafaia/AFP via Getty Images)

Picture of oil-stained Brazilian boy goes viral

A boy walks ashore in Brazil in filthy waist-high water with a look of exasperation and his body smeared in oil, a photographer takes a shot, and the image goes viral.

Environment • 26 Oct 19

Lawyers for the Dubliner had attempted to have the case against him thrown out

Case against Kevin Mallon to return to court in Brazil

The case against Irish man Kevin Mallon, who is facing charges relating to the alleged illegal resale of tickets during the 2016 Olympics in Rio, is set to return to the courts in Brazil.

Brazil • 11 Sep 19

A researcher said the discovery indicates an enormous amount of species are waiting to be discovered in the Amazon

Shock discovery: Record-breaking electric eel found

Call it a shock discovery: DNA research has revealed two entirely new species of electric eel in the Amazon basin, including one capable of delivering a record-breaking jolt.

News Lens • 10 Sep 19

Last night President Bolsonaro told the nation he was feeling confident before undergoing his fourth abdominal surgery

Bolsonaro undergoes surgery to treat 2018 stab wound

A surgical procedure to correct an incisional hernia in Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's abdomen has ended, according to a statement from the presidential palace.

World • 08 Sep 19

The Air France plane plunged into the ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009 after entering an aerodynamic stall

Father of Air France crash victim to join appeal

The father of an Irish doctor who died in an Air France crash ten years ago has said he is disappointed but not surprised that French judges have dropped charges over the disaster.

News • 06 Sep 19

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has banned any burning of fires for 60 days

Brazil bans burning in Amazon for two months

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree to ban burning throughout the country for two months, as the authorities scramble to defuse the Amazon fires which have triggered a global outcry.

World • 29 Aug 19

Funding for prevention and control of forest fires has also been reduced

Brazil's environment agency reportedly sees budget cut

Brazil's environment agency, Ibama, has seen it's budget shrink by 25% since 1 January, when Jair Bolsonaro took office, according to internal government data collected by the opposition PSOL party.

World • 28 Aug 19

Some 1,663 new fires were ignited between Thursday and Friday in the Amazon

Hundreds of new fires in Brazil as Amazon outrage grows

Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, official data have showed, amid growing international pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro to put out the worst blazes in years.

World • 24 Aug 19

The dramatic scale of this year's fires is the result of a significant acceleration of deforestation

Why is part of the Amazon burning?

The thousands of fires burning in the Amazon don't look like the major forest fires of Europe or North America - instead, they are fuelled mainly by branches, vegetation and other byproducts of deforestation in cleared areas, experts say.

World • 24 Aug 19

Jair Bolsonaro has come under scrutiny because of his comments in the past

A history of controversy: Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil's President, Jair Bolsonaro, has recently come under international pressure for his comments about Brazil's mismanagement of wildfires which are burning the Amazon, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying the fires are an international crisis.

World • 23 Aug 19

The Mura tribe has long had a history of resistance in the Amazon

Indigenous people vow to fight for Amazon's survival

In the heart of the Amazon, the Mura indigenous people have vowed to protect their traditional land amidst threats from farmers, logging and raging fires.

News Lens • 23 Aug 19

Fires in the Amazon have surged 83% so far this year compared with the same period a year earlier

Brazil lacks resources to fight wildfires - Bolsonaro

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said his government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, just weeks after telling donors he did not need their money.

World • 22 Aug 19

The Amazon forest is home to a biodiversity sanctuary that is unique in the world

Five things to know about the Amazon

The Amazon is the largest tropical forest in the world, covering 5.5 million square kilometres, an ecological treasure threatened by escalating deforestation and forest fires.

World • 22 Aug 19

A NASA satellite image from 13 August shows fires in the states of Amazonas (top C-L), Para (top R), Mato Grosso (bottom R) and Rondonia (bottom C)

Brazil's Bolsonaro blames NGOs for Amazon forest fires

Wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year, with 72,843 fires detected so far by Brazil's space research centre INPE.

News Lens • 22 Aug 19

It is understood the gunman boarded the bus at 5.30am local time

Rio de Janeiro bus hijacker shot dead by police

A gunman holding a busload of passengers hostage in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro has been shot dead by police, officials said, ending a hijacking that had lasted for several hours.

World • 20 Aug 19

Gang leader Clauvino da Silva was found dead in Bangu prison after his failed jailbreak

Brazil inmate found dead after foiled escape

A Brazilian inmate, whose attempt to break out of jail disguised as his daughter reverberated around the world, has been found dead.

World • 06 Aug 19

Three held over $30m gold heist at Brazilian airport

Brazilian police have said three people have been arrested over the brazen theft of an estimated $30m worth of gold from Sao Paulo's international airport last week.

World • 30 Jul 19

Fighting lasted for about five hours at the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre

57 killed in Brazilian prison riot

At least 57 inmates were killed during a prison riot in northern Brazil as rival gang factions fought each other.

World • 30 Jul 19

Minister Michael Creed said that 99,000 tonnes of beef coming from South America was a concern

Mercosur not a 'done deal', Minister tells Dáil

The Minister for Agriculture has said the Mercosur trade deal must not be spoken about as if it is a done deal.

Politics • 09 Jul 19

The Mercosur trade bloc consists of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay

EU and Mercosur group agree draft free trade deal

Trade negotiators for the European Union and the South American Mercosur trading block have reached agreement on a new free-trade deal.

World • 29 Jun 19

President Bolsonaro once declared he would rather his son die than be gay

Criminalising homophobia could 'hurt' gays - Bolsonaro

Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has criticised the country's Supreme Court's decision to criminalise homophobia, saying it could "hurt" gays by deterring companies from hiring them.

World • 15 Jun 19

Brazilian riot police outside the Puraquequara Prison facility in Manaus

40 inmates killed in clashes in four Brazil prisons

At least 40 prisoners in Brazil were found dead in four jails in the city of Manaus, where a fight between rival prison gangs resulted in 15 dead the day before, authorities have said.

World • 28 May 19

Latest scalp is ex-president Michel Temer arrested on allegations that he was the leader of a criminal organisation

Hundreds arrested in Brazil's biggest corruption probe

Some of Brazil's biggest political and business names have been snared in the country's sprawling anti-corruption investigation that began in 2014 as a probe into money laundering at a car wash outlet in the capital Brasilia.

World • 21 Mar 19

Police said the gunmen took their own lives after the shooting at the Raul Brasil public school

Eight killed in Brazil school shooting

Eight people have been killed in a school shooting in Brazil.

World • 13 Mar 19

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