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This undated Nov. 2020 photo released by Brazil's Goias state civil police shows the site where police report they recovered the body of Japanese woman Hitomi Akamatsu in Abadiania, Brazil. Brazilian ...

Irisnaide Silva, 32, an Indigenous leader of one of two main indigenous groups in the Amazonian state of Roraima, gestures in the Raposa Serra do Sol reservation RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL, Brazil (Reuters) ...

A woman brought a man in a wheelchair into a South American bank and attempted to take out a loan in his name – but the man had been dead for hours, police in Brazil said Wednesday. Érika de Souza ...

The threat of dying for freedom is one fellow activist Daniele Duarte knows well. In the 16-minute short film, Duarte explains that as a Black woman and a lesbian she’s constantly at odds with her ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil must do more to ensure its landmark law on domestic violence combats the crime in a country where statistics show a woman is killed every two hours, said ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The discovery of a domestic worker kept as a slave in a mansion in a wealthy part of Sao Paulo for years has shocked Brazil, with labor prosecutors ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Wonder Woman continues its illustrious run in movie theatres across the world and now the movie ...

A woman ran onstage and violently shoved a famous priest during a Mass Sunday in Cachoeira Paulista, a city located 130 miles southwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the shocking video, an unnamed ...

Officials in Venezuela say a woman has been killed and a dozen more injured in a clash with security forces on the border with Brazil. Gran Sabana Mayor Emilio González identified the woman shot dead ...