Pelé remains hospitalized, but his condition is stable
“The medical team diagnosed a respiratory infection, which is being treated with antibiotics. The response has been adequate and the patient, who remains in a common room, is stable, with a general improvement in his health status. The former player will continue to be hospitalized in the coming days to continue treatment”, says the bulletin signed by the medical team at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, which includes an oncologist, endocrinologist and geriatrician.
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O Brazilian football idol was hospitalized last Tuesday (29) for a reevaluation of chemotherapy therapy for the colon tumor identified in September 2021.
Violence against indigenous people
Security guards from Brasil BioFuels (BBF) – the largest producer of palm oil in Latin America – pointed guns at indigenous people of the Tembé ethnic group, in the northeast of Pará, at the beginning of the week. The case began to have repercussions following a video circulating on the internet showing the incident.
According to residents, security guards invaded the indigenous area and attacked residents in search of the perpetrators of the alleged “fruit theft” from the company's lands, who denied the action. (FSP) 🚥
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Lula and Biden
President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confirmed, this Friday (2), that he plans to travel to the United States to meet with American President Joe Biden before his inauguration on January 1st.
“We have a lot of things to talk about because the United States suffers from a democratic need as much as Brazil. The damage that Trump did to American democracy is the same damage that Bolsonaro did in Brazil”, said Lula during a press conference. (AFP)
Malafaia and Zambelli in Xandão's sights
The minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), determined a deadline of five days for the Attorney General's Office (PGR) to express its opinion on the request of the bench of the PSOL in the Chamber to include the deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-SP) and the pastor Silas Malafaia as investigated in the digital militias investigation.
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The investigation investigates the actions of groups organized on the internet to spread fake news and anti-democratic attacks. (Estadão)🚥
Hate speech on Twitter
Discriminatory content and hate speech, common on previously blocked accounts on Twitter, increased again after the curto period of time in which the billionaire Elon Musk took over the company, point out researchers from Center for Countering Digital Hate, from Anti-Defamation League and other groups that study online platforms.
Before the Musk Era, slurs against Black Americans appeared an average of 1.282 times per day on social media, now they have jumped to 3.876 times per day. Anti-Semitic posts soared more than 61% in the two weeks of Twitter's new administration. (The New York Times*)
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Harassment in Qatar
A Rio de Janeiro journalist Isabelle Costa – known for sharing news about Flamengo, with more than 80 thousand followers on social media – denounced in a video on social media that she was constantly harassed in Qatar, where he is to cover the World Cup. This Friday (02) she was chased by men on the subway and questionada if she was a porn actress. (UOL) Look:
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