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The Federal Police of Brazil announced on Friday that they arrested two intelligence agency officials as part of an action called “Operation Last Mile,” which aims investigate the abuse of geolocation systems for mobile devices without judicial authorization by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin). According to the statement, the federal police also carried out 25 [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vetoed multiple articles of Bill 2903/2023 on Friday, which aimed to define management rules and establish a time frame for the demarcation of indigenous lands. Bill 2903/2023, initially proposed as PL 490/2007, was approved by the Federal Senate on September 27. The bill’s controversial provisions included the establishment [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions Wednesday targeting individuals that contribute to Hamas operations and financing. In total, OFAC announced sanctions on ten individuals in Gaza, Sudan, Turkey, Algeria and Qatar for being members of Hamas, contributing to Hamas operations or facilitating financing for Hamas. The sanctions [...]

The Brazil-penned UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict was vetoed Wednesday by the US. The resolution advocated a temporary ceasefire to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians who are caught in the midst of the war. Despite the resolution explicitly condemning Hamas’s October 7 attacks on [...]

Over 100 Israeli civilians were killed Saturday after Hamas fired rockets into Israel and scores of Hamas militants entered Israeli territory from Gaza, according to Israeli officials. The Palestinian Ministry of Health also reported that 198 Palestinians were killed after Israel conducted airstrikes on Gaza in response to the incursions. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) [...]

On Thursday, the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil invalidated a legislative proposal 9-2 regarding the temporal boundaries for demarcating indigenous lands.  The judges ruled against the argument that the territory of indigenous peoples can only be demarcated if there is evidence of the requesting community’s existence as of the promulgation date of the Federal Constitution, i.e., [...]

The US State Department informed Congress on Monday that it would be waiving sanctions and unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian assets at banking institutions to be used for “humanitarian aid” in exchange for five US citizens held as prisoners in Iran. The exchange has allegedly been in the works for some time, with talks beginning [...]

Following a recent spate of cases of Brazilian police officers facing accusations of excessive force, Human Rights Watch has appealed to the country’s Attorney General Augusto Aras to ensure that all police killings are investigated independently by prosecutors, the organization announced Tuesday. The group said in an open letter to Aras that the current system of [...]

In the 1930s, Europe watched through a haze of perplexity and inertia as Germany built a military structure practically unrivaled in human history. France and England, although threatened by the German war machine, chose the path of passivity and the belief that the worst could be avoided through diplomacy — even as the signs indicated [...]

The Brazil Senate’s Committee on Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (CRA) approved a bill on Wednesday that would establish a continuous residency requirement for the recognition of lands belonging to indigenous communities. The bill, PL 2.903/2023, passed through the committee by a vote of 13–3. The bill would classify land as “traditionally occupied land of indigenous [...]