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Brazil's former president Lula walks free after 18 months behind bars

Lula's highly-anticipated exit from the facility where he had been held since April 2018 came hours after his lawyers requested the immediate release of the 74-year-old

Govt could look at Israel, Brazil models for onion storage: Ficci study

For ensuring cost-effective storage of onions, Ficci said the emphasis should be laid on building low-cost farm gate storage

Brazil's jailed ex-president Lula could be freed after Supreme Court ruling

That move will initially depend on a judge based in the southern city of Curitiba, where the former president is jailed.

PM Modi to visit Brazil on Nov 13 and 14 to attend 11th BRICS summit

Through a network of high level and working group meetings, the BRICS agenda has expanded considerably to include issues of mutual concern.

We have collected small amount, worst yet to come: Bolsonaro on oil spill

He said he did not know if additional oil would impact his country's coastline, but that "everything indicates that the currents went to the coast of Brazil."

Good news for Indian travellers: Soon, no need for visas to enter Brazil

Both India and China are part of BRICS - an association of five major emerging national economies including Brazil, Russia and South Africa

Amazon fires down 35.5% in Sept compared to August, but spread elsewhere

Scientists say the vast rainforest is a bulwark against global warming, as its lush vegetation absorbs heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Bolsonaro says Macron must withdraw insults before Brazil accepts G7 aid

The Amazon forests have been hit with this decade's worst blaze. Brazil's handling of the fires has led to ill-feeling between the two Presidents

Brazil govt open to foreign aid for fighting Amazon fires: Spokesman

The essential point is that this money, on entering Brazil, will be under the control of the Brazilian people

'Use funds to reforest Europe': Brazil rejects G7 aid to fight Amazon fires

A top official told French President Emmanuel Macron to take care of 'his home and his colonies.'

Amazon is still on fire: 4 essential reads on Brazil's vanishing rainforest

Environmental researchers explain how farming, big infrastructure projects and roads drive the deforestation that's slowly killing the Amazon

Brazil prez causes outrage over Amazon fires; Europe threatens to end trade

Pope Francis added his voice to the chorus of concern, warning that the lung of forest is vital for our planet

Colonialist mentality: Brazil hits out at Macron over Amazon fire criticism

Macron had tweeted that fires burning in the Amazon amount to an international crisis

Amazon fire: EU warns of trade retaliation, Brazil scrambles to make amends

Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon, which accounts for more than half of the world's largest rainforest, have surged in number by 83% this year

How trade war between US and China could be fueling Amazon fires

The danger of the current situation is that China's hunger for soy may derail the halting recent progress in ending deforestation

Slum Soccer transforms the lives of slum children with the help of football

Slum Soccer has won the FIFA Diversity Award 2016 and FICCI Gender Diversity Award 2018. It now plans to mentor talented footballers under 14 years of age

As fires rage in Amazon forests, Brazil pushes back against global flak

President Jair Bolsonaro's senior foreign policy adviser tweeted a long English language thread defending Brazil's record on Amazon deforestation and attacking media coverage

WTO to set up dispute settlement panel to review India's sugar subsidy

India also reiterated that the measures were consistent with its WTO obligations

52 inmates killed in Brazil prison riot, 16 of them decapitated: Official

Fighting broke out in the Altamira Regional Recovery Center at around 7:00 am (1000 GMT), an official from the Para state government's penitentiary department told AFP

Brazil joins Australia in dragging India to WTO over sugar subsidies

In February, Brazil had requested that the WTO start consultations on the subject but the two sides failed to reach a resolution