Brazil’s federal government reverses a decree after Indigenous protesters pressure it to drop plans tied to dredging the Tapajos River. On Monday, officials say they revoke a Lula decree that ...

People in prisons in Louisiana and across the nation say they're not receiving proper medical care. Why are these cases so common?

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged Donald Trump on Sunday to treat all countries equally after the US leader ...

A Brazilian court reinstated late on Wednesday an order to free up access to the Santarem river port terminal where U.S.

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Drum queen Juliana Paes from Viradouro samba school performs during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026 ...

James Luckey-Lange has been spending a lot of time looking at the names he carved on a bar of soap he smuggled out of a ...

A Brazilian federal court has sentenced a key financier to more than 22 years in prison. He was found guilty of leading an illegal mining operation in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, a huge ...

A team of prison reformists made their final push Tuesday to convince a federal judge to order an end to “degrading and dehiumanizing” labor for field workers on the so-called Farm Line at the state’s ...

A French yoga teacher who was held in a blood and feces-stained Venezuelan jail on suspicion of being a US spy described how guards put him "through hell" in an attempt to break him.

APTOPIX Brazil Prison Singing Contest Inmates wish each other good luck before competing in the Voice of Freedom rehabilitation program singing contest at the Djanira Dolores de Oliveira women's ...

Inmate Carolina performs on stage in the Voice of Freedom rehabilitation program singing contest at the Djanira Dolores de Oliveira women's penitentiary in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. The ...