Due to the high numbers of cases of covi-19 in the first two months of 2022, several Brazilian capitals postponed carnival parties until April. After two years without a parade due to the covid-19 pandemic, Brazil finally celebrated carnival, with an out-of-season revelry. Watch on TV Brasil: In Rio de Janeiro, however, not everything was party. An accident resulted in the death of an 11-year-old girl. Raquel Antunes da Silva was pressed between an allegory and a pole, on Wednesday night (20), while moving the car on a street close to the Sambódromo. Paraíso do Tuiuti – Carnival 2022 04/23/2022 Sambódromo Special Group Fourth day of Carnival 2022 Photographer – Marco Antonio Teixeira – Marco Antonio Teixeira/RioTur Defendants In early April, teacher Monique Medeiros, mother of the boy Henry Borel, accused along with former councilor Jairo Souza Santos, responsible for the child’s murder, left the Instituto Penal Santo Expedito, in Complexo de Gericinó, in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro. On the 6th, she received an electronic ankle bracelet. On the 12th, councilor Chico Alencar (PSOL) was selected as rapporteur for the disciplinary process at the Council of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum of the Chamber of Rio de Janeiro, for the removal of the mandate of councilor Gabriel Monteiro (PL), the target of sexual harassment, morality, rape and manipulation. Councilor Gabriel Monteiro (PL) at Rio City Council during the ethical-disciplinary process at the Council of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum for alleged breach of decorum. – Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil Also on the 12th, the trial of four defendants involved in the case of the death of pastor Anderson do Carmo, supposedly at the request of his then wife, former deputy Flordelis, began. On the same day, the Committee on Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum of the Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo (Alesp) approved the impeachment request of Deputy Arthur do Val for having uttered sexist phrases when referring to Ukrainian refugees, saying that the women there are “ easy” for being poor, even with his resignation. On the 20th, the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes voted to condemn federal deputy Daniel Silveira (PTB-RJ) to eight years and nine months in prison in a closed regime. On the 1st, the majority of the Supreme Court endorsed a series of precautionary measures against the deputy determined by Moraes. Listen on Radioagência Nacional Saúde The World Health Organization (WHO) began monitoring cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children in Europe in April. Cases began to emerge in the United Kingdom, which until the 26th had registered 111 records of the disease. The new cases did not present the viruses normally responsible for acute inflammation of the liver – hepatitis A, B, C, D and E. On the 17th, the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, announced in a radio and TV statement, the end of the public health emergency resulting from the pandemic. According to the minister, the announcement was possible because of the improvement in the epidemiological scenario, the wide vaccination coverage and the assistance capacity of the Unified Health System (SUS). Listen on National International Radio Agency War in Ukraine More than a month after the start of the war in Ukraine, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) said he believed that the conflict could last a long time. At the beginning of the month (4) the world was stunned by the location, in the city of Bucha, of more than 300 bodies, a total of 410 in the outskirts of Kiev. On the 10th, the count was over 1,200. Place where two men were buried in Bucha – REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/all rights reserved Humanitarian aid continued to fail due to increased fighting. The installation of humanitarian corridors was also unsuccessful. Still on the 24th, there was an attempt to install the Mariupol corridor. The city was already completely taken over by Russian forces since the 16th. Residents were besieged at the Azovstal power plant. The conflict intensified in the East, starting on the 18th, the Battle of Donbass. Watch on TV Brasil Birthday and re-election On the 21st, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom celebrated her 96th birthday at her country estate in Sandringham. Gun salutes were fired in London and Windsor and military bands played Happy Birthday to You to mark the date. French President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected on Sunday (24) for a new term. He defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. Deaths The writer and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), Lygia Fagundes Telles, died on the 3rd in São Paulo, aged 98. Lygia won the Camões Prize, in 2005, for her body of work, and the Juca Pato Prize, in 2009, as intellectual of the year. The writer was born in São Paulo, studied at the Caetano de Campos School and graduated from the Largo de São Francisco Law School, at the University of São Paulo (USP). She joined the ABL in 1987 in chair 16, succeeding Pedro Calmon. Lygia died at her home in São Paulo of natural causes. Writer Lygia Fagundes Telles – National Archive/ Fundo Correio da Manhã Writer Lygia Fagundes Telles – Reproduction/Facebook Lygia Fagundes Telles Elections During the 30-day party window period, the deadline for federal or state deputies to change political parties to run in the 2022 Elections without losing their mandate due to party infidelity, which ended on April 1, about 70 federal deputies changed their initials. Since 2018, by decision of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the change of acronym can only be made by the parliamentarian at the end of the current term. Governors of six Brazilian states have resigned to contest the 2022 elections. Oscar The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood announced on the 8th that its board of directors has prohibited actor Will Smith from attending any of its events, including the Oscar ceremony for 10 years after the best actor winner slapped host Chris Rock during this year’s awards show.
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