Brazil

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defiantly rejected Donald Trump’s demands to terminate the criminal trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro, condemning Trump’s accompanying threat of 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports as an assault on national sovereignty.

The BRICS nations have voiced "serious concerns" about the unilateral imposition of tariffs and non-tariff measures, in apparent reference to the US, which they deemed inconsistent with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.

The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, which is suing New York Times is a sovereign community of about 2,000 people in the Amazonian rainforest. The defamation lawsuit has been filed in a court in Los Angeles.

According to the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, the two persons had tried to "recruit" people, including teenagers, to conduct coordinated attacks at a concert on Saturday, using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails. According to police, the attack was planned to gain "notoriety on social media."

During the series of inspections, which began in mid-November and will continue over the next few days, 163 workers were identified in conditions analogous to slavery at the outsourced company Jinjang, a service provider for BYD.

Jonas Masetti was dissatisfied with his Western life style which led him to the ancient Indian knowledge and philosophies.

Another SC ruling that reeked of judicial overreach was that of reprimanding the Central government over the 2021 Farmers’ Protest. The Supreme Court stayed the implementation of the three farm laws, taking into account only one state's farmer protests while ignoring other aspects of the matter. Moreover, the apex court ignored the blockade of railway tracks and tolls in Punjab as well as a national highway.

Elon Musk slammed Brazil's top court judge who ordered freezing of Starlink bank accounts and threatened to take down X (formerly Twitter) in Brazil.

A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed on the outskirts of Sao Paulo in Brazil on Friday. The plane also struck several houses.

The woman in Brazil tried to control the dead man's head and make him clasp the pen with which to make the signature on loan document.