Scientists
from Brazil, USA and EU prove that climate change is the cause of drought in
the Amazon
Last
December, boats were no longer able to ascend the Amazon River and its
tributaries, interrupting the supply of water and food to several villages in
Brazil. Since mid-2023, the Amazon basin has been hit by an exceptional drought
due to low precipitation and persistently high temperatures throughout 2023.
Scientists have discovered that the responsibility goes far beyond
the climate phenomenon El Niño…
Increase
in rays in Tocantins
In recent months, Tocantins has faced an
increase in the incidence of lightning during storms, causing significant
losses to producers in the region. This phenomenon is attributed to the
combination of intense heat and lack of precipitation in the previous months.
Boat
sinks in Salvador
Navy
investigates excess passengers on vessel that sank in BA; boat carried out
irregular transport, The vessel involved in the sinking that left eight dead in
Madre de Deus, in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador, was carrying passengers
irregularly. According to a note sent by the Navy on Monday (22), the agency is
investigating whether there were too many passengers in the vehicle.
Israeli
Parliament invaded by family members of Hamas hostages
Family members
of hostages from the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, still detained in the
Gaza Strip, invaded last Monday morning (22) a session of the finance committee
of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, to demand urgent action for the release
of their relatives kidnapped more than three months ago.
The invasion
is part of the protest that has been taking place since last night near Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem.
The group
criticizes the Israeli leader for his lack of action to bring the hostages home
"before it is too late."
Israeli
authorities removed the protesters from the commission and suspended work in
Parliament.
The protest
comes on the day that Israeli troops gradually advance westward into Khan
Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and towards Rafah.
According to
military radio, the Israeli Army has surrounded the Nasser hospital and is
completing the isolation of the city center. The military also arrived at
al-Aqsa University and is one kilometer from the Moassi humanitarian zone,
close to the sea, where thousands of displaced people are located.
The Red
Crescent's central building in Khan Yunis was also besieged, and the Israeli
military effectively paralyzed all its activities. Tanks have surrounded the building
and snipers are positioned on the roofs of nearby buildings.
Information
released by the Gaza Ministry of Health revealed that at least 25,295 people
have lost their lives in the region since the conflict began on October 7.
Earlier, the
EU's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrel, questioned
"when there will be many deaths in Gaza" and announced that the
situation in the region will be discussed in the EU Council with the bloc's
foreign ministers.
"The
humanitarian situation in Gaza could not be worse, there is no food, medicine
and people are under bombs. Some ministers accept that there are many civilian
casualties, but when is enough?" asked Borrell, emphasizing that this
"is not the way to conduct a military operation."
For him,
"from now on we must talk about a two-state solution and not a peace
process." "I know Israel doesn't agree, but it is unacceptable, as
the UN Secretary-General said. So we need to discuss. What is the solution?
Expel people from Gaza? Kill them all? Israel has been inciting hatred for
generations" , he highlighted.
An
American state that failed to administer a lethal injection to a convict
According to Jornal Nacional, Kenneth Smith,
sentenced to death in 1989, survived the first execution attempt in November
2022, and the method chosen has now provoked reactions from the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights. The US state of Alabama, along with Oklahoma and
Mississippi, are the only states in the United States that authorize the
execution of criminals by nitrogen hypoxia. The method chosen now to execute
Kenneth Smith is the first execution in the United States by nitrogen
asphyxiation. A mask will be placed on Kenneth Smith and for 15 minutes there
will be a flow of nitrogen gas. Alabama authorities argue the process is
painless and will cause him to quickly lose consciousness. However, experts say
that wearing a mask could allow oxygen to enter and prolong the process, and
that Smith will be the subject of an unproven experiment that could cause
suffering . The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says the method would
violate an international treaty against torture.
Israel
suffers soldier casualties
Israel
suffered this Tuesday, the 23rd, its worst day in terms of military casualties
since the beginning of the attacks on the Gaza Strip, which began in October
2023. According to the spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Daniel Hagari,
24 soldiers from the country died in the Palestinian enclave, with just one
ammunition simultaneously killing 21 soldiers.
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Scientists
from four countries discover that it was human action that did the most harm to
last year's devastating drought in the Amazon.
Russia
accuses Ukraine of shooting down plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners
Everyone on
the plane died. According to the Russian government, of the 74 people on board,
65 were Ukrainian prisoners of war. When accusing Ukraine of the plane crash,
the Russian government did not present any evidence. According to the Russian government,
of the 74 people on board, 65 were Ukrainian prisoners of war - soldiers that
Russia captured during almost two years of conflict. They would be exchanged
for Russian prisoners. In other words: Russia accuses Ukraine of having shot
down a plane carrying Ukrainian troops.
The Russian
military transport plane left an air base in Moscow and crashed at around 11am
local time – 5am Brasília’s time -, very close to the border with Ukraine, in a
village called Yablonovo, in the Belgorod region. This province has been the
target of frequent attacks from Ukraine in recent months.
When
accusing Ukraine of the plane crash, the Russian government did not present any
evidence and defined this Wednesday's episode (24) as a “barbaric act of
terrorism”. Words from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The Russian
government called an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss
the plane crash.
Ukraine's
Military Intelligence stated that the country had not received any requests to
guarantee the security of Belgorod's airspace, as has been done in other
prisoner exchanges with Russia; that it was up to Russia to take care of the
operation.
The text
also says that Ukrainian intelligence does not have reliable information about
who was on board the Russian plane. The note does not deny that the plane may
have been shot down by a missile from Ukrainian forces.
President
Volodymyr Zelensky canceled a trip and events linked to his own birthday until
it is clarified what happened. This episode further intensifies tensions
between Ukraine and Russia in a war that has lasted almost two years.
Argentines
go on strike against Milei's economic reforms
The strike
was joined by workers in industry, commerce, transport and public companies.
Thousands of Argentines, in several cities, protested against the reforms
proposed by the new president.
Donald
Trump's victory
In the
second primary vote to be the Republican Party's US presidential candidate. The
vote took place on January 24, 2024, and Donald Trump won the second
preliminary vote in the dispute for the Republican Party's candidate position
in the 2024 presidential election ¹.
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Alexandre Ramagem, EXdirector of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency,
currently deputy for PL, is suspected of having used Abin to illegally spy on
politicians and public authorities. He was the target of a Federal Police
operation, which carried out 21 search and seizure warrants in Rio de Janeiro,
Minas Gerais and Brasília. The PF seized four computers, six cell phones and 20
flash drives at the deputy's addresses.
Explosion
in an oil tank leaves four injured at the Abreu e Lima Refinery
An explosion
hit an oil tank at the Abreu e Lima Refinery (Rnest), in Ipojuca, on the South
Coast of Pernambuco, on Thursday afternoon (25). According to Petrobras, four
workers were injured in the accident, which happened around 3:30 p.m.
Government
publishes dengue vaccination strategy
The Ministry
of Health announced this Thursday (25) the cities that will receive the dengue
vaccine - with priority given to the age group of 10 to 14 years. At the
beginning of 2024, the number of cases and the demand for testing for the
disease exploded.
It's a
finger prick to collect a blood sample and, within 15 minutes, the result comes
out. A pharmacy in São Paulo has been testing for dengue since 2023. According to the Ministry of Health,
in the first three weeks of 2024, Brazil registered more than 120 thousand
cases of dengue. An increase of 170% compared to the same period in 2023.
According to doctors, you can
differentiate dengue from other diseases by paying attention to some symptoms.
A high fever starts suddenly and it is common for people to feel pain behind
their eyes. Headache, pain in the muscles, abdomen and spots on the skin may
also appear. The advice is to drink plenty of water - to avoid dehydration -
and seek a health service immediately.
Pé de meia Program… Understand more
A law was
passed that creates the Pé-de-Meia program to encourage students
enrolled in public high school to stay and complete school. The program is a
financial-educational incentive, in the form of savings, designed to
promote the retention and completion of school for students enrolled in public
secondary education. The program aims to democratize young people's access to
secondary education and encourage them to remain in the stage; mitigate the
effects of social inequalities on retention and completion of secondary
education; reduce school retention, dropout and dropout rates; contribute to
the promotion of social inclusion through education; promote human development,
acting on structural determinants of extreme poverty and its intergenerational
reproduction; and stimulate social mobility. In 2024, low-income students
enrolled in regular public secondary education, belonging to families enrolled
in the Bolsa Família Program at the beginning of the school year, will be
eligible for incentives under the Pé-de-Meia program. The value of the
financial incentive is up to R$9,200 per student.
United
Nations Court does not call for ceasefire in the war against Hamas
The
International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take all necessary measures to
prevent acts of genocide from being committed against Palestinians in Gaza, but
did not call for a ceasefire in the conflict.
The main
judicial body of the United Nations released this Friday (26) the decision on a
request presented by South Africa in December 2023. These are emergency
measures related to Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The Court of
The Hague, in the Netherlands, ruled that:
Israel must
prevent acts of genocide from being committed;
ensure that
Israeli forces do not commit such acts;
prevent or
punish public incitement of Palestinian genocide in the Gaza Strip;
enable the
delivery of basic services and humanitarian assistance in the territory;
preserve
evidence of alleged acts of genocide; and send, within a period of up to one
month, a report proving that it has adopted the determined measures.
The Court
did not call for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza, which was
another demand from South Africa. The judges stated that the body has
jurisdiction to judge the case and denied Israel's request for it to be
dismissed.
The South
African government accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, violating the
1948 United Nations international convention. The two countries signed the
document that defines the crime as "acts with the intention of destroying
in whole or in part a national, ethnic group , racial or religious". This
decision should take years to be judged, according to experts.
Although
this Friday's (26) decisions by the International Court of Justice are
mandatory, they are difficult to implement because they need to be approved by
the UN Security Council, where the United States, Israel's allies, has veto
power.
South Africa
said the decision was a decisive victory for the rule of law and international
law, and said it expected Israel to comply.
The
Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the decision was an important reminder that
no country is above the law.
Israel's
Prime Minister stated that the country will continue to defend itself following
international law and that the war is against Hamas terrorists, not against
Palestinian civilians.
Outside the
Court, there were demonstrations on both sides.
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