The fires took on an international dimension over the weekend, as French President Emmanuel Macron tackled the topic on Twitter during the G7 summit

With six months to go before a presidential election, Lula’s imprisonment for corruption has created ever deeper divisions

Artist and fierce government critic Ai Weiwei has transformed a crippling tax fine he says is designed to silence him into a huge wave of solidarity.

China is now the only country to detain a Nobel Peace Prize laureate after Burma released Aung San Suu Kyi.