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Brazil's Lula says he was as surprised as Trump with their 'chemistry' at UN despite bad relations

September 25, 2025 9:15 am

The Trump administration has slapped sanctions on judges and others and imposed 50% tariffs on many of Brazil’s exports to the United States over the arrest and conviction of the president’s ally, former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Trump says Brazilian President Lula can call him 'anytime' amid tariff row

August 02, 2025 9:57 am

“He can talk to me anytime he wants,” Trump said at the White House, adding he liked the Brazilian people but believed “the people running Brazil did the wrong thing.”

Brazil's Bolsonaro slams 'vague' accusations after attempted coup indictment

February 20, 2025 1:38 am

Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet on Tuesday charged Bolsonaro with devising a multi-pronged scheme to remain in power despite his loss to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Brazil's Lula leaves intensive care as he recovers from surgeries

December 13, 2024 8:37 pm

Doctors operated on Lula for about two hours on Tuesday to drain bleeding between his brain and meningeal membrane.

Brazilian president Lula da Silva in ICU after emergency brain surgery

December 10, 2024 6:10 pm

The 79-year-old Lula is "well" and being monitored in the intensive care unit after the successful operation, a medical note published by the government said.

Brazil's Lula sees new poll as one way out of Venezuelan crisis - 'if Maduro has good sense'

August 15, 2024 9:35 pm

Lula also said a "coalition government" could be another possible solution for Venezuela after the contested presidential election on July 28, which both Maduro and the opposition claim to have won.

How Amazon deforestation rates have fallen since Bolsonaro

July 09, 2023 12:22 pm

Satellite images have showed a 33.6 percent decrease, but the area of rainforest cleared during the first half of 2023 is still greater than the size of Luxembourg.

PM Modi, Brazilian President Lula discuss ways to further deepen bilateral strategic partnership

May 21, 2023 12:54 pm

Modi and Lula met on the sidelines of the summit of the G7 advanced economies here in Hiroshima, the first meeting between them since the Brazilian leader was reelected as the president for a third term.

Denying defeat, Bolsonaro’s supporters ask army to step in

November 03, 2022 12:57 pm

They were there, they said, to save Brazil’s democracy from a rigged election, and there was only one way to do so: The armed forces needed to take control of the government.

Lula's victory: Brazil back from the brink?

February 08, 2023 2:08 pm

Brazil has got a reprieve. But this time around, Lula's challenges will be of a far greater magnitude

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Bolsonaro vs Lula: Fate of Amazon rainforest hinges on Brazil's presidential poll

October 29, 2022 3:12 pm

Brazil's presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world's largest rainforest, after deforestation soared in the past four years under President Jair Bolsonaro.

Dussehra in Delhi to mourning in Thailand: Top photos from around the world this week

October 09, 2022 1:35 pm

From the devastation left behind by Hurricane Ian in Florida and Cuba, to a deadly stampede at an Indonesian soccer stadium, to a massacre at a daycare centre in Thailand, here is a look at some of the most compelling images from around the world in the past week