BRASILIA – Millions of Brazilians vote on Sunday to choose between far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro and leftist Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party in the second and final round of presidential elections. Bolsonaro remains in […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – The controversial far-right candidate in Brazil’s presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, won the first round on Sunday by a margin of 17 percentage points but fell short of the 50% of valid […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilians are going to the polls to vote in the most polarised presidential election for many years. Polling has started in almost all of Brazil in its general elections, except for […]
BRASILIA – Brazil’s top electoral court has prohibited that the jailed former president Lula Inácio da Silva stand for the upcoming 7th October presidential elections over corruption charges leveled against him. Six judges voted against […]
BRASILIA – Imprisoned former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, along with the current leader of the Workers Party he founded, has been hit with fresh corruption charges by federal prosecutors. Authorities allege that Lula, along […]
BRASILIA – A Brazilian court on Wednesday turned down ex-president Lula da Silva’s latest appeal against his 12-year sentence for corruption, seemingly putting his bid for a political comeback even farther out of reach. The […]
BRASILIA – More than 60 Brazilian members of congress from the opposition Worker’s Party have formally changed their names, adding ‘Lula’ to their names after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was jailed last weekend. The […]
BRASILIA – Hundreds of supporters of the former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have set up camp outside the cell where he is being held. Lula has been sentenced to 12 years and […]
BRASILIA – Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will begin his 12 years prison term from Friday, April 6, 2018, after a judge gave him 24 hours to surrender to police. The order […]
BRASILIA – Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court judges voted early Thursday to reject former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s plea to avoid prison. He will begin serving his 12-year prison sentence while he continues to […]
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