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In our October edition of Undertones, we examine a movement calling for accountability and coordinated online action to challenge Meta’s problematic content moderation policies and governance practices in Brazil.
Flavio Bolsonaro says he may run again for Brazilian presidency
Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his immediate family landed in Miami, Florida on Wednesday after he refused to surrender his passports as ordered by his country's Supreme Court in connection with a money-laundering probe. The US State Department on Tuesday announced it had granted entry visas to the senator and his family. France 24's Kethevane Gorjestani explains.
Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami on Wednesday (October 28) after fleeing Brazil. The stunning move came after 48 hours in which Bolsonaro refused to concede to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and then threatened to attempt to annul the election result. Details by FRANCE 24's correspondent Tim Vickery.
A Japanese-Brazilian teenager forced to face a family loss nobody will talk about is at the heart of “Yellow Chrysanthemum,” the first feature from Japanese-Brazilian director André Hayato Saito, which is among the projects at this year’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market. The film is set in São Paulo in July 2014, while Brazil is staging the […]
Brazilian former presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro travelled to Argentina before flying to Ecuador, Argentina's government said Wednesday, days after his election defeat to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He is en route to the US where allegedly he will seek asylum following his passports being nullified after failure to comply with a Supreme Court order in a money-laundering probe.
Lula’s election victory rattled Brazilian markets and set up a fiscal test as he weighs costly campaign promises against pressure to rein in spending.
Brazilian police shot a man who assaulted and threatened his partner with a fake gun in Criciuma, southern Brazil.
Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro said on Monday that a Supreme Court justice had barred him from leaving the country after he narrowly lost to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro, who refused to concede defeat, denounced the order as intimidation and vowed to challenge the election results.
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International leaders and politicians congratulate the Brazilian president on his re-election.
Leftist President Lula has defeated right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro to win a historic fourth term in office. Bolsonaro has refused to concede and called for the results to be annulled. DW has the latest.
Still a teenager, Yamal could surpass Brazilian legend Ronaldo Nazario, who won the Ballon d'Or at the age of 21.
From student protests across France over the weekend and presidential elections in Brazil pitting leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva against right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro to wildfires in Indonesia, FRANCE 24 looks back at some of the most striking images from the past week.
Some 21 percent of Brazilian adults did not cast a ballot in the first round of voting. Will they affect the run-off?
Ex-Barcelona forward to make November return, having last played for Brazilian club Fluminense in 2015.
As Brazilians head to the polls on Sunday for the second round of presidential elections, our correspondents take us to the heart of the country's favelas, where residents live in unsanitary conditions. Over the past 40 years, the area occupied by Brazilian favelas has almost tripled in size. They now cover around 460,000 hectares, compared with 53,700 in 1985.
A judge also doubled the daily fine for noncompliance with a previous court order governing political content.
The messages, reported by a Brazilian daily, say the platform recommended Bolsonaro's profile and his WhatsApp channel.
Poll shows right-wing candidate with two percent advantage over Lula going into second round of voting on October 25.
