The country registered 59,620 same-sex unions from 2013 to 2021—0.6% of all marriages in the period. The number represents a surge of 148.7% in nine years, with 3,700 records in 2013 and 9,202 in 2021.

The freezing aimed to ensure that new properties are included in a compensation program for the residents of Bom Parto, one of the districts affected by the rock salt mining in Alagoas state.

Products will be supplied at the patient’s request. The health secretariat will receive and analyze submissions with a therapeutic indication on an outpatient basis, along with documents and prescriptions filled out and signed by a doctor.

The 21 repatriated landed Tuesday morning at Viracopos International Airport in Campinas, São Paulo. They came on a Brazilian Air Force aircraft from Brasília, where they had been since Saturday, when they arrived from Cairo.

A survey indicates that the loss of vegetation stood at 116 km², 80% less than in 2022, when it reached 590 km². This was also the lowest level of deforestation reached in November since 2017.

In a year beset by drought in the Amazon, extreme temperatures, hunger, and malnutrition among indigenous communities, Brazil debates indigenous land demarcation. The Milestone Thesis was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, but representatives and senators have approved it.

Conditions have affected rivers and biodiversity, especially in the headwaters of the Solimões, Purus, Juruá, and Madeira rivers, as far as the southernmost countries of the forest, Peru and Bolivia.