More than 50 arrested at Palestine Action support rally
More than 250 protesters sat outside Labour's party conference in Liverpool to support the banned group.
‘Viscerally dedicated to social issues’: behind Lula’s drive to win final term in Brazil’s crunch election
Longtime friend tells of president’s obsession with social justice and fears for country’s future under another Bolsonaro presidencyOn 1 January 2023, a few hours after being sworn in for his third stint as Brazil’s president, a ravenous Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sneaked away from a celebratory cocktail party packed with politicians and diplomats to grab a snack with one of his oldest friends.“This is your penultimate term,” that friend, the Dominican theologian and writer Frei Betto, recalls telling Lula as the pair chewed the fat in a back room of the foreign ministry in Brasília. Continue reading...
Tom Phillips Rio de JaneiroLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaJair Bolsonaro
