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Covid rating will be downgraded in Japan

In addition to suspending the recommendation to use masks indoors, the Japanese government will downgrade the covid-19 classification, according to the announcement by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, this Friday (27).

The changes, which come into effect at the beginning of May, will downgrade the disease to the same classification as the flu. Currently, it is at the same level as tuberculosis and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). (AFP)

PF searches for suspects of participating in coup acts

This Friday (27), the Federal Police began the third phase of Operation Lesa Pátria, which aims to identify people who participated in or financed the coup acts carried out on January 8. According to the PF, 11 preventive arrest warrants and 27 search and seizure warrants are being served. (Brazil Agency)

• Rio de Janeiro (9 search and seizure and one arrest)
• Minas Gerais (4 search and seizure and two arrests)
• Paraná (1 search and seizure and one arrest)
• Santa Catarina (1 search and seizure and one arrest)
• Holy Spirit (8 search and seizure and four arrests)
• Federal District (4 search and seizure and two arrests)

Daniel Alves asks for restrictions on visits in prison, says newspaper

According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the player requested a restriction on the number of people he can communicate with in prison. According to the article, the player wants to prepare for a defense that will get him out of prison as quickly as possible. Therefore, he only wants to receive visits from his lawyers and closest family members. (The world)

Daniel Alves will be detained without the right to bail

A Barcelona judge on Friday ordered the preventive detention without bail of Brazilian defender Daniel Alves for an alleged sexual assault against a woman in a nightclub in the city at the end of December, the court said.

Neymar will be a witness in an operation against loan sharks

The Civil Police of the Federal District (PCDF) reported that the player Neymar will be summoned to give testimony, as witness, as part of an operation investigating a group suspected of loan sharking, receiving jewelry and precious stones and money laundering. According to police, the player received two pieces of jewelry from a target of the operation. He is not considered to be investigated in the action and must clarify his involvement with the group and whether he knew about the illicit activities committed by them. (G1)

“There is strong evidence” of diversion of indigenous resources

The Minister of Social Development, Wellington Dias, said yesterday (26) that “there is strong evidence” of resources transferred to the Ministry of Health for the purchase of medicines that did not reach the care units of indigenous communities. In an interview with CNN, Dias stated that “it is a tragedy that we are still far from knowing the extent of”.

“How come so many people who are not indigenous can enter a protected territory? How were the health units deactivated? How did schools practically close down back then? How come the food supply wasn't there? How come Auxílio Brasil was not registered for these families?”, she declared. (CNN)

Police open investigation into genocide of Yanomami Indians

This Tuesday (23), the police opened an investigation for “genocide” against the Yanomami indigenous people, after a report revealed the death of a hundred children from malnutrition and other causes, while the Lula government dismissed 43 soldiers from the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (Funai).

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Putin accuses Ukraine of 'neo-Nazi' crimes

This Friday (27), the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, accused Ukraine of committing “neo-Nazi” crimes, in a rhetoric that he frequently uses to justify his military offensive, this time on the International Day in Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust .

Tragedy at Kiss Nightclub: 10 years later, has justice been served?

The fire at Nightclub Kiss, in Santa Maria (RS), turns ten years old this Friday (27). The tragedy left 242 people dead and more than 600 injured. The case moved the country and even led to changes in legislation... But a decade later, has anyone been held responsible? O Curto That's it: no. After a mistrial, family members and victims are still waiting for a response from justice.

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