Brazilian comedian has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for telling offensive jokes.
Léo Lins was found guilty of inciting intolerance with a 2022 stand-up routine that made fun of black people, indigenous people, fat people, gay people, Jews, evangelicals, disabled people and those with HIV.
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A passenger plane suffered extensive structural damage from bird strike as it took off from Rio de Janeiro heading to São Paulo in Brazil.
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A Brazilian mayoral candidate tried to take out his rival by beating him over the head with a metal chair in the middle of their election debate.
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A block on the social media platform X in Brazil came into effect last weekend a Brazilian Supreme Court ordered the suspension following a months-long standoff with Elon Musk over disinformation. X shut down its business operations in Brazil earlier this month rather than obey an order from the judge to block dozens of accounts being investigated over fake news or hate speech, an order Musk denounced as censorship.
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A woman claiming to be football legend Pelé’s secret daughter has demanded the exhumation of his body to prove whether he is her father.
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Soccer legend Pelé is being immortalized in a Portuguese language dictionary as his nickname officially become synonymous with “exceptional, incomparable, unique”.
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A Brazilian politician who proposed a bill to prevent mandatory vaccination of the people of Mato Grosso do Sul against Covid, has died of the virus.
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Parts of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are being illegally sold on Facebook, the BBC has discovered. The protected areas include national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples.
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An enormous bright-red sculpture of a vagina in Brazil appears to be doing exactly what it was designed to do – spark gender issues debate.
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A consortium of Brazilian journalists under the umbrella body (Brazilian Press Association) is suing President Jair Bolsonaro for exposing them to Covid-19 infection after he removed his mask near them during a televised press conference to announce he has test positive to the virus.
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