The absence of the U.S. highlights divisions COP30, the 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, opened on Monday in the Brazilian Amazon, Belém, with host leaders invoking indigenous concepts of collective action to push for urgent progress, even as the absence of senior U.S. …
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election. Bolsonaro, currently under house arrest in Brasilia, can still appeal the ruling. Four of the five justices found Bolsonaro guilty on five counts: attempting a coup, participating …
