While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
An Amazon rainforest rite of passage in threatened territory
State and federal authorities in Brazil have put into motion a plan to remove illegal landgrabbers and defend Indigenous communities, report LUCAS DUMPHREYS and DAVID BILLER
THE Indigenous adolescents danced in a circle under the thatched-roof hut from nearly dawn to dusk while parents looked on from the perimeter.
Some of the adults smoked tobacco mixed with the wood from a local tree in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
The seemingly endless loop of the procession, taking place over six long days this month, was leaving some Tembe Tenehara youngsters with swollen and bandaged feet.
Similar stories
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports


