Glenn Greenwald has speculated that coronavirus lockdowns could have contributed to the armed robbery that saw him bound and held at gunpoint for an hour at his farm in Brazil last month. The journalist, who was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting about government surveillance programs based on leaks … Read more
Brazilian law student, 20, dies after playing Russian roulette with his .38 calibre revolver while drinking with a friend Cades Emanuel Pimenta Santos Norte, 20, had taken the .38 calibre revolver out and started playing Russian roulette which his friend at home in Janaúba, Brazil They took it in turns to hold the loaded gun … Read more
First humans who crossed the Bering Strait some 15,000 years ago had indigenous Australian DNA that is now found in the bloodline of South America tribes, study finds Previous work found ancient Australian DNA in modern-day Amazonians However, a new study finds the ancestral DN runs deeper in South America A genetical analysis found tribes along the Pacific … Read more
Eating just two sausages per week increases your risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and early death, experts have warned. A multinational team of researchers tracked the diets and health outcomes of 134,297 people from 21 countries spanning five continents, including Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Sweden and China. They found a 46 per cent higher risk of major … Read more
Brazil’s coronavirus death rate tripled among people in their 20s in February as the country’s dangerous new variant took over, a study has found. Researchers investigated the ratio of Covid cases to deaths in Brazil last month and found it surged in young people. Even though the numbers of cases across the country were declining … Read more
New York health officials are worried that some coronavirus variants will reinfect people who have had COVID-19 before. At a press conference on Tuesday, Dr Dave Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner, said that reinfection appears to be rare. However, he noted that the coronavirus variants that were first identified in South Africa and Brazil have … Read more
Brazil currently accounts for one-quarter of the entire world´s daily COVID-19 deaths, far more than any other single nation, and health experts are warning that the nation is on the verge of even greater calamity. The nation´s seven-day average of 2,400 deaths stands to reach to 3,000 within weeks, six experts told the Associated Press. … Read more
Argentina will be suspending flights from Mexico, Brazil and Chile as of Saturday as part of a plan to prevent different strains of the coronavirus from entering the country. The South American nation announced the move Thursday as it prepares itself for a second wave of infections. The government said in a statement that the … Read more
Brazil’s over 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus amount to the ‘biggest genocide’ in the Latin American country’s history, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday in a scathing attack on current leader Jair Bolsonaro. ‘On Tuesday, 3158 people died of Covid in Brazil. It’s the biggest genocide in our history,’ Lula told Germany’s … Read more
Octopuses have two sleep states just like humans — a ‘quiet’ one where their skin stays pale and short periods of ‘active’ sleep in which they twitch and change colour. Experts from Brazil who recorded video clips of the eight-legging animals dozing said that octopuses may have short dreams ‘like small videoclips, or even gifs.’ … Read more