RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Under the watchful gaze of heavily armed police, residents of a violence-plagued Rio de Janeiro shantytown lined up alongside the rich at a polling station in a golf ...

South Africa’s G20 presidency’s Digital Economy working group tried to make progress on digital inequality, high data costs ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A Brazil government research group says the country’s large gap between rich and poor has narrowed over the last decade to the smallest difference on record. The Institute of ...

Brazil's northeast, a harsh place of arid land, cyclical drought and crushing poverty, is emerging as the next crisis zone in the coronavirus pandemic. An aerial view of a burial is seen at the Bom ...

Bad news for the 224 million Americans that drink a cup of coffee each morning: prices are expected to go up. This year’s harvest is anything but fruitful in Brazil, as high temperatures and little ...

As United Nations climate talks bubble to a critical point, negotiators on Tuesday were pressured to ensure that oil — along with fossil fuels coal and natural gas — won't be burned in the future.

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July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25) today is up +0.40 (+2.31%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25) is up +11.30 (+2.32%). Sugar prices today are sharply higher as a slump in the dollar index ...

* Brazil, China, India, South Africa to discuss climate * Brazil to propose climate fund, technology for poor * U.S. could lose face without strong climate bill-Brazil By Raymond Colitt BRASILIA, Jan ...

The arrival of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at U.N. climate talks on Wednesday was hoped to spur nations to meet a self-imposed early deadline for progress on tough issues. For now, ...