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Lula offers to host COP30

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has offered to host the 2025 edition of UN climate summit, COP30, and to put the venue in the Amazon rainforest, rather than the more populous coastal region.

Police raid leaves 18 dead in Brazil

At least 18 people have been killed in a Brazilian police raid on a sprawling complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro, state military police said, in the latest deadly police operation in the city’s impoverished communities.