Brazil — news through its media
Stories followed in this country, with their framing set against the rest of the world.
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Ceuta: Sánchez clears Morocco against his own report, and stands alone in Congress
Pedro Sánchez told Congress there is "no solid evidence" that Morocco orchestrated the mass arrival of migrants in Ceuta — even as a Spanish report documents that Moroccan gendarmes let people through for some ten hours. His own allies accuse him of lying, protesters fill the streets, and Vox is carrying the affair as far as Chile.
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Hormuz: Iran strikes Kuwait and the UAE, Oman refuses its toll, Washington cuts contact
Day five of the Hormuz escalation: Iran struck US bases located in Kuwait and the UAE — Gulf states themselves — and some twenty Emirati civilian flights were disrupted. Qatar condemned the strikes, Oman quietly rejected the toll Tehran wants to levy, and Washington says it has cut contact while floating an embargo.
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Nepal: 1,204 bodies recovered, over 4,200 missing — the race into the tunnels a week after the flood
A week after the Bhote Koshi flood, Nepal counts 1,204 bodies recovered and more than 4,200 missing. Rescuers are racing to reach survivors trapped in hydropower tunnels, 38 Australians remain unaccounted for, and China has reopened the Tibet road into the disaster zone.
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Nepal: 987 bodies recovered in Rasuwa, nearly 900 missing at eleven hydropower sites
A week after the flood triggered by a glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border, Kathmandu announced on 1 September 2026 that 987 bodies had been recovered in Rasuwa district and more than 12,000 people rescued. Nearly 900 remain missing at eleven hydropower sites, including workers trapped in buried tunnels. Prime Minister Balendra Shah attributes the flood to climate change and is seeking help from the Loss and Damage Fund. Death tolls differ, including between Nepali sources.
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Violence in Ceuta: Spain asks the European Union for help after a month of migration crisis
A month after a record crossing from Morocco, the Spanish enclave of Ceuta has seen a surge of violence since 26 August 2026: groups of residents attacked migrants and tore down camps, a military vehicle was stoned and twelve Moroccan nationals were arrested. Madrid is asking the European Union for help.
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Trump announces a deal giving the United States control of 65 billion Venezuelan barrels
On 28 August 2026 Donald Trump announced a deal with Caracas covering, according to both governments, 17 fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels and an expected $100 billion in investment. Axios, which had revealed the talks the day before, puts the figure at 90 billion barrels across a dozen fields. The US strategic reserve is at a forty-year low.
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Trump renames Lake Ontario "Lake America" by executive order
On 27 August 2026 Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America", as trade talks with Ottawa collapsed. The lake is a shared border water between New York State and the Canadian province of Ontario, and its name comes from an Iroquoian word. The order applies only to US federal nomenclature and does not bind Canada, which rejected it. The move follows the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America".
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The CIA director makes a confidential visit to Moscow
CIA director John Ratcliffe travelled discreetly to Moscow for talks with Russian officials, according to several US outlets; the Kremlin confirmed contacts between intelligence services. The visit comes as Vladimir Putin has just rejected the peace plan put forward by Volodymyr Zelensky. It is read very differently in Kyiv, Moscow and Washington.
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Canada retaliates against US tariffs as Trump threatens to double duties on cars
Ottawa rejected the deal proposed by Washington and announced retaliatory tariffs alongside a support plan for its industries. Donald Trump in turn threatens to double duties on Canadian cars, trucks and parts. More than 500 products already face 50 % tariffs. The value of exports affected varies: 20 billion dollars in most accounts, 28 billion according to the Canadian press.
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Colombia decrees a second state of emergency, economic and ecological, across 15 departments
On 19 August, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella signed decree 1261, establishing a second state of economic, social and ecological emergency for thirty days across 15 of the country's 32 departments. Ten days after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake, the toll stands at 319 dead and reconstruction financing has become the central issue.
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Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin sentenced to life in prison for fraud
On 20 August, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court sentenced Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin to life in prison for financial fraud, alongside a record fine. The ruling closes the collapse of the group whose default reshaped China's property crisis and hit foreign creditors.
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