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Brazil Passes Half a Million COVID-19 Deaths, Experts Warn of Worse Ahead
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Brazil Passes Half a Million COVID-19 Deaths Amid Chinese Vaccine Push
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Amazon City Shuts Down Amid Attacks Over Trafficker’s Death
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Brazil Identifies Indian Coronavirus Variant in Traveler Through Sao Paulo, Rio Airports
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Brazilian States Suspend AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine for Pregnant Women After Death
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Brazil’s President Suggests CCP Virus Created to Wage ‘Biological Warfare’
May 7, 2021
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro floated the idea that the CCP virus may have been a lab product created to carry out “biological warfare.” “It’s a new virus. Nobody knows whether it was born in a laboratory or because a human ate some animal they shouldn’t have,” he said in a speech on May 5. “But…
UK Court to Reconsider $6.9 Billion Brazil Dam Lawsuit Against BHP
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At Least 25 Dead During Brazilian Police Raid in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO—Police targeting drug traffickers raided a slum in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and at least one officer and 24 suspects died after being shot, authorities said. A police helicopter flew low over the Jacarezinho favela as heavily armed men fled police by leaping from roof to roof, according to images shown on…
Brazilian Teenager Kills Three Children, Two Workers in Daycare Center
SAO PAULO—A teenager broke into a daycare center in southern Brazil and stabbed three children and two workers to death on Tuesday before being overpowered by police, officials said. Municipal Education Secretary Gisela Hermann described a “horror scene” at the facility in Saudades, a town in Santa Catarina state. She told Reuters in a telephone…
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