A heavy and intermittent rain that hit the state of São Paulo between Saturday (18) and Sunday (19) left dead people and a trail of destruction, mainly in the regions of the north coast. In addition, stretches of the Rio-Santos highway needed to be interdicted. The Mogi-Bertioga highway was completely banned after a crater opened
The governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), asked on Tuesday (21) that tourists who were on the north coast leave the region. The request took place in the morning, after the release of stretches of the Rio-Santos Highway. ‘The recommendation for people, who are part of this fluctuating population, to start to retract. We have to take advantage of the climatic condition, that the weather is favorable’, according to information from the newspaper ‘O Estado de S. Paulo’
The government of São Paulo announced on Friday afternoon (24) that, after five days, teams from the DER (Department of Highways) cleared all sections of the Rio-Santos highway (SP-055) that were completely blocked . On Thursday night (23), km 174.5 of the road, at Praia Preta, in Juquehy, was released for passenger and heavy vehicles. Previously, this point on the track was open exclusively for emergency and supply vehicles, which allowed for greater access and assistance to victims, in addition to the arrival of supplies
Over the last three years, the city of São Sebastião has accumulated 37 judicial convictions for regularizing housing, providing basic services to the population and, thus, reducing risks in occupied areas close to the slopes of the Serra do Mar. Most of these homes are located in risky areas, such as Vila Sahy, the place with the highest number of victims of landslides caused by heavy rains last weekend on the north coast of São Paulo
A suspect participating in the massacre that killed seven people in a bar in the city of Sinop, in the interior of Mato Grosso, was killed by the Military Police during an exchange of fire on Wednesday afternoon (22). Ezequias Souza Ribeiro was located in a forest region about 15 kilometers from the municipality of Sinop. According to the investigation, the man resisted arrest and exchanged fire with police from the BOPE-MT (Special Operations Battalion of Mato Grosso).
Edgar Ricardo de Oliveira, one of the perpetrators of the massacre of seven people, including a 12-year-old teenager, in a bar in Sinop, Mato Grosso, turned himself in on Thursday morning (23) to the police. The city is about 500 km from Cuiabá. The attack with a 12-gauge shotgun and a pistol took place after the suspect and an accomplice, Ezequias Souza Rineiro, 27, lost money in a game of pool
Two suspects of having killed seven people in a bar in the city of Sinop, in Mato Grosso, on Tuesday afternoon (21), had bet R$ 20,000 on pool and card games, but lost. The victims then mocked them. They returned home, took shotguns, returned to the bar and killed their colleagues.
The Pênsil bridge, in the city of Torres, which was between Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, partially gave way when a hundred people were on top of the structure, in the early hours of Monday (20). When crossing the bridge, there were information signs about the maximum capacity of 20 people. Most people who fell into the river managed to swim out.
A preview of official price inflation advanced 0.76% in February, informed the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). The result of the IPCA-15 (Extended Consumer Price Index-15) in the month was 0.21 percentage points above the had been registered in January, of 0.55%. The index accumulates an increase of 1.31% in the year and, in the last 12 months, the IPCA-15 is at 5.63%, below the 5.87% observed in the immediately previous 12 months. In February 2022, the IPCA-15 was 0.99%
The fine-tooth comb carried out by the federal government on Bolsa Família beneficiaries will exclude 1.55 million people from the program in March. The information was confirmed to R7 by the Minister of Development and Social Assistance, Wellington Dias, this Friday (24)
Employees, the self-employed, retirees, pensioners and other individuals who receive up to two minimum wages (R$ 2,640) will not be taxed by Income tax already from this year. The federal government announced that the minimum wage will increase from R$1,302 to R$1,320 from the 1st of May. In addition, it had also announced the exemption for up to two floors. For this, the Federal Revenue explains that the tax exemption range IRPF (Individual Income Tax) will be increased to R$ 2,112.00, with a simplified monthly deduction of R$ 528.00 being allowed
Mocidade Alegre was crowned champion of the 2023 Carnival in São Paulo. The school won for the 11th time and broke a nine-year fast without lifting the trophy — the last title was in 2014. The dispute was fierce and the result was only defined after the note of the last judge of the last item. The association participated in the Parade of Champions, on the night of this Friday (24). Also returning to Anhembi were Mancha Verde, Império de Casa Verde, Acadêmicos do Tatuapé and Dragões da Real
In Rio de Janeiro, who lifted the trophy after 22 years was Imperatriz Leopoldinense. The school, which told the death of Lampião on the avenue, will parade again in Sapucaí this Saturday (25). The following associations will also be in the Parade of Champions: Unidos do Viradouro, Unidos de Vila Isabel, Beija-Flor de Nilópolis, Estação Primeira de Mangueira and Academicos do Grande Rio
People who had a mild Covid-19, but started to face anxiety and depression months after the illness, may have brain changes that directly affect the function and structure of the brain — which compromises memory, for example. The data are from a recently released Brazilian study, funded by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), which will be presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, in Boston.
A study published Monday (20) in the journal Nature Medicine reported that a fifth HIV patient was cured after a stem cell transplant and that no trace of the AIDS virus remains in his body. Before the case of this ‘patient from Düsseldorf’ (West Germany), a 53-year-old man, four other HIV patients managed to be cured. The first of them was from Berlin, in 2009; the second, from London, in 2019; the third was a woman, in 2022; and the fourth, a 66-year-old man, also in 2022.
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, 18-year-old Mariana Alves went through an unpleasant situation. Recently, she decided to share the story on social networks, and the video already has more than 3.5 million views. The Brazilian spent months watching her belly grow in an unusual way and, in July 2020, she had a surprise: she was not gaining weight. The volume was a 7 kg ovarian cyst.
More than 97,000 people committed suicide in 2019 on the American continent,’only region in the world where suicide mortality has increased’ since 2000pointed out PAHO (Pan American Health Organization), co-author of a study released this Thursday (23)
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, made a surprise visit to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, last Monday (20). Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodmir Zelensky just days before the one-year date of the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The number of civilians killed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine confirmed by the United Nations last Tuesday (21) has exceeded the threshold of 8,000, according to the UN Office for Human Rights, which noted that a year of conflict also left 13,287 wounded. among the non-military population
A metallic sphere ended up on a beach in the city of Hamamatsu last week, and so far no one can say what it is. Police and even a bomb squad were sent to the scene to investigate the piece, which remains unexplained.
The US Department of Defense released, last Wednesday (22), the selfie that a pilot took from inside the cockpit of a U-2 surveillance plane with the Chinese balloon in the background. For Washington, the device was being used to spy on the country.
‘We will do everything possible to win this year’, said the president of Ukraine, Volodmir Zelensky, in a speech to the nation last Friday (24), the day in which the Russian invasion of his country completes one year