Brazil
Caught Russian spy was on the way to Hague internship
Dutch intelligence said the spy’s elaborate 12-year plot included stealing a Brazilian’s identity and a cover story complete with trance music and bean stew.
- by Anthony Deutsch and Anthony Boadles
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Bodies retrieved in Amazon search for British journalist, Indigenous worker
A man earlier confessed to killing them, police said. The 10-day search for the men has provoked international outrage.
- by André Spigariol, Jack Nicas and Ana Ionova
‘Deeply sorry’: Brazil apologises for telling journalist’s family bodies were found in Amazon
The confusion is the latest misstep by officials in the search for the British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous worker Bruno Pereira.
- by Terrence McCoy
Family waits for ID of bodies found in Amazon search for missing pair
British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous rights worker Bruno Pereira went missing after receiving threats. Family and official reports differ.
- by Terrence McCoy
‘Every second counts’: British journalist, Brazilian expert missing in lawless part of Amazon
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira went missing while reporting in a remote part of the rainforest near the border with Peru, after reports of threats.
- by Fabiano Masonnave and David Biller
Brazilian Bruno Borges identified as diver found dead near cocaine drop
The scuba diver involved in a failed multimillion-dollar drug drop in Newcastle has been identified.
- by Amelia McGuire and Angus Dalton
‘Now we can be happy again’: Rio’s dazzling Carnival returns
Rio’s top samba schools have begun putting on their delayed Carnival parades, their first after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19-pandemic.
- by David Biller and Mauricio Savarese
Rio's Carnival: Hot and sweaty in $400 costumes
Our instructions – only in Portuguese – include how we must dress, how we must behave, and how we must respect the hierarchy of the school during the parade.
- by Lia Timson
Melbourne coffee drinkers warned the $6 flat white is coming
Baristas say cafe owners can’t keep absorbing spiralling costs and cost pressures push the price of a regular flat white towards $6 in some parts of the city.
- by Noel Towell
Spy couple tried to sell submarine secrets in a peanut butter sandwich. They failed
The engineer and his wife appeared to believe that soliciting US adversaries like Russia or China was a bridge too far, so they went for a US ally.
- by Julian E. Barnes, André Spigariol, Jack Nicas and Adam Goldman
‘Losing resilience faster’: Drying Amazon rainforest struggling to recover
Most of the Amazon rainforest has been losing its ability to recover from shocks, a new study has found.
- by Anastasia Moloney