Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Africa’s peace mission to Ukraine: Brazil, SA leaders talk

Africa’s peace mission to Ukraine: Brazil, SA leaders talk

BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he had discussed the war between Russia and Ukraine and an upcoming BRICS summit with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa as they met in Paris. Ramaphosa recently led a delegation of African leaders to Russia and Kyiv seeking to share the continent's "perspective on finding peace in Ukraine," but key elements of their peace plan ended up being rebuffed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lula has also pitched himself as a peace broker to end the war, which began when Russia invaded its neighbour in February 2022. The Brazilian leader irritated Western countries…
Read More
Brazil’s Lula condemns invasion of Ukraine, touts peace initiative

Brazil’s Lula condemns invasion of Ukraine, touts peace initiative

ANTHONY BOADLE BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has condemned the violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity by Russia and again called for mediation to end the war, a peace initiative that was criticized by the Ukrainian government. Speaking at a lunch with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Lula said a group of neutral nations must come together to help broker peace between Russia and Ukraine. His comments came after he set off a storm among Western allies by stating over the weekend that they were prolonging the fighting by supplying arms to Ukraine. A White House spokesperson accused Lula of "parroting Russian…
Read More
Bolsonaro denies ‘illegal acts’ over Saudi jewels; Lula government vows probe

Bolsonaro denies ‘illegal acts’ over Saudi jewels; Lula government vows probe

BRAZIL'S former President Jair Bolsonaro denied committing "illegal acts" after a report that jewellery allegedly gifted by Saudi Arabia to him and his wife was brought into the South American nation without being declared to authorities. The government of Bolsonaro's successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, pledged to investigate the matter. The Saudi embassy in Brazil did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "I'm being accused of a gift I neither asked for nor received," Bolsonaro was quoted as saying in an interview with CNN Brasil. "There is no illegality on my part. I never committed illegal acts."…
Read More
Brazil bids farewell to beloved soccer star Pele

Brazil bids farewell to beloved soccer star Pele

EDUARDO SIMÕES EMOTIONAL crowds bid Brazil soccer legend Pele a final farewell, lining the streets of Santos to watch his coffin taken to its final resting place from the city's stadium where 230,000 mourners had filed past his open casket. Young and old embraced as the funeral procession wound its way through the coastal city's streets for hours, with some fans in tears and others cheering and drumming for a national hero who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history. "It's an irreparable loss for Brazil," said Brazil's newly sworn-in President…
Read More
Lula takes over in Brazil, slams Bolsonaro’s anti-democratic threats

Lula takes over in Brazil, slams Bolsonaro’s anti-democratic threats

ANTHONY BOADLE and GABRIEL STARGARDTER LUIZ Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course to rescue a nation plagued by hunger, poverty and racism. In a speech to Congress after officially taking the reins of Latin America's biggest country, the leftist said democracy was the true winner of the October presidential vote when he ousted Bolsonaro in the most fraught election for a generation. Bolsonaro, who left Brazil for the United States on Friday after refusing to concede defeat, rattled the…
Read More
‘Coup-mongering’ Bolsonarista’s battle cry reveals a radicalized Brazil

‘Coup-mongering’ Bolsonarista’s battle cry reveals a radicalized Brazil

GABRIEL STARGARDTER NEARLY two weeks after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil's most fraught election in a generation, Milton Baldin arrived in the capital Brasilia to try to overturn the result. A small business owner from the deep interior of Brazil, Baldin, 55, joined thousands of hardcore Bolsonaro supporters who had set up an encampment outside army headquarters, from where they were urging the military to stage a coup. On November 26, Baldin took to the camp's stage and made a call to gun owners across Brazil, a group that has surged to nearly a…
Read More
‘It hurts my soul’: Brazil’s Bolsonaro ends post-election silence

‘It hurts my soul’: Brazil’s Bolsonaro ends post-election silence

BRAZILIAN President Jair Bolsonaro broke his silence for the first time since his election defeat on October 30 and spoke to supporters calling for a military coup to stop leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office. Bolsonaro said he had kept silent for almost 40 days, adding, "it hurts my soul." "Who decides where I go are you. Who decides which way the armed forces go are you," Bolsonaro told his supporters at the gates of the presidential residence. In his ambiguous comments, Bolsonaro did not endorse their call for military intervention but said the armed forces…
Read More
Brazil’s Bolsonaro maintains silence after Lula’s election victory

Brazil’s Bolsonaro maintains silence after Lula’s election victory

LISANDRA PARAGUASSU and ANTHONY BOADLE PRESIDENT Jair Bolsonaro had yet to concede defeat in Brazil's presidential election by Monday afternoon, raising fears the far-right nationalist might contest the victory of his leftist rival, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Tens of thousands of jubilant Lula supporters took to the streets of Sao Paulo on Sunday night to celebrate a stunning comeback for the 77-year-old former metalworker, who governed Brazil from 2003 to 2010. His electoral win follows a spell in prison for corruption convictions that were later annulled. Bolsonaro, who left his residence on Monday morning and headed to the presidential…
Read More