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Brazillian Police Raid ‘Bitcoin Sheikh’ for Defrauding Victims of $766M: Report
Another day, another Ponzi. Yesterday morning, 100 police agents spread across three of Brazil’s federal states raided 20 addresses linked to a crypto fraud network controlled by Francisco Valdevino da Silva, aka “Sheikh dos Bitcoins.” De Silva’s group is suspected of having defrauded and laundered up to 4 billion Brazilian reals (about $766 million) from “thousands” of Brazilians and citizens from at least ten other countries, according to the authorities.
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A Record Amount of Brazilian Companies Announce Bitcoin Holdings
Brazil's tax authorities released August figures that revealed that over 12,000 companies had cryptocurrency holdings. This is the highest amount of any month.
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Brazil halts sales of charger-less iPhones, fines Apple $2.3 million
The Brazilian government has suspended the sales of iPhones without chargers, it announced today. Apple is also facing a BRL$12,275,500 fine (about $2.3 million) from Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP). This is on top of a reported $2 million fine Apple incurred in 2021 after announcing its first smartphone to ship without a power adapter in the box, the iPhone 12 series. Apple can appeal Brazil's decision.
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Report lists Indigenous territories under greatest pressure in the Amazon
Men on horseback enter a protected Indigenous area, bringing along 100 head of cattle. Next to a village with no road access, inhabited by the Parakanã people, the men find what they were looking for: a deforested area. They abandon the cattle there and leave the protected zone without interacting with the Indigenous people.
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Brazil says Apple can’t keep selling iPhones that don’t come with a charger
Brazil is blocking the sales of iPhones without chargers.
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Large parts of Amazon may never recover, major study says
Swathes of rainforest have reached tipping point, research by scientists and Indigenous organisations concludes
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Amazon activists mourn death of ‘man of the hole’, last of his tribe
An unidentified and charismatic Indigenous man thought to have been the last of his tribe has died in the Brazilian Amazon, causing consternation among activists lamenting the loss of another ethnic language and culture. The solitary and mysterious man was known only as the Índio do Buraco, or the “Indigenous man of the hole”, because he spent much of his existence hiding or sheltering in pits he dug in the ground.
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Brazil's Indigenous Gaming Scene Is On the Rise
Featuring a native Brazilian as its protagonist, Araní takes a big step toward making gaming more authentic and inclusive.
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Telegram forgot to check its email and now it’s banned in Brazil
Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov has just put out a statement about why Brazil’s Supreme Court is now suspending the app, and the reason is incredible. In the statement, which you can read in full below or on Durov’s Telegram channel, he says it was because his company was checking the wrong email address.
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Brazil stops tracking savanna deforestation despite rising destruction
Brazil will stop monitoring deforestation in the Cerrado, the world's most species-rich savanna, a government researcher said on Thursday citing a lack of funds, days after data showed destruction hitting a 6-year high in 2021.
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Supermarkets drop Brazilian beef products linked to deforestation
Sainsbury’s is one of six European supermarkets to stop selling some or all beef products from South American country
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Carbon trading gets a green light from the U.N., and Brazil hopes to earn billions
Carbon emissions trading is poised to go global, and billions of dollars — maybe even trillions — could be at stake. That's thanks to last month's U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, which approved a new international trading system where companies pay for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions somewhere else, rather than doing it themselves.
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Ayrton Senna's father has passed away at 94
Milton da Silva, the father of the late Ayrton Senna and the grand-father of former F1 driver Bruno Senna, died on Wednesday in Sao Paulo at the age of 94 from natural causes. Although the three-time world champion raced under his mother's surname, his father was a quiet but enduring force in Senna's life.
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Brazil's unvaccinated president misses soccer match
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he was not allowed to attend a league match between Santos and Gremio because the home club did not allow unvaccinated supporters into their stadium.
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YouTube suspends pay of 14 Brazilian creators over misinformation allegations
Fourteen YouTube channels have had their payments suspended by the company amid allegations that they spread misinformation about the country’s 2022 election. "In compliance with the decision of the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of August 16, YouTube informs that it has suspended access to the revenue attributed to those responsible for the 14 channels indicated by the TSE," a YouTube spokesperson told The Hill in a statement.
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Toyota Lets Farmers Pay for New Trucks With Corn or Soybeans in Brazil
It's no secret that cars are expensive, especially now. If you're a farmer in a poorer country, it may be tough to come up with the cash you need for a new vehicle. Toyota, as it turns out, has an answer to that. No cash? No problem. Just bring your crops.
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Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs
Cutting emissions more urgent than ever, say scientists, with forest producing more than a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year
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Amazon eagle faces starvation in 'last stronghold'
One of the world's largest eagles has "nearly zero" chance of surviving deforestation, study shows.
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'Bolsonaro Out!': Massive Protests as Brazil's Covid-19 Death Toll Tops 500,000
As Brazil's Covid-19 death toll surpassed 500,000 on Saturday, at least hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of more than 400 cities across the nation and around the world to blame President Jair Bolsonaro for the grim pandemic milestone and demand his ouster.
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How Ford burned $12 billion in Brazil
A century ago Henry Ford came to Brazil and established the town of Fordlandia, hoping to become an Amazonian rubber baron, but retreated deep in the red.
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