It's unclear what South Africa's attitude will be to negotiating new deals with the UK and the EU. In the past seven years it has lost its appetite for trade deals, particularly with the developed world.
Bolivia midfielder Jhasmani Campos deflects a pass from Argentina forward Sergio Aguero.
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To celebrate 100 years of football’s oldest international competition, South American fans have flocked north, sticking two fingers up to Donald Trump.
Brazil’s economy was once considered ready to take flight. What happened?
Academics have sent an open letter to the World Health Organisation calling for the Olympics to be postponed or moved because of the Zika threat. They're overreacting.
Graffiti at a bus stop in Sao Paulo, Brazil reads “Out Temer.”
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The BRICS bank is positioning itself to play a significant role in those areas in which the international financial institutions are seen to have failed.
Dilma Rousseff Carnaval masks on a factory assembly line near Rio.
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Brazil has a powerful and dominant national identity, which could be a casualty of the current political crisis. The author of an upcoming book on the subject considers the harm that's been done.
Are Olympic athletes, officials, reporters and spectators at risk travelling to this Zika-affected city?
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The outbreak of mosquito-borne Zika virus in South America has cast a shadow over preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in Rio de Janerio.
With an ongoing impeachment process and a deep economic recession, the host nation is on thin ice ahead of one of the world's largest sporting mega-events.
Criminal gangs who use slave labour are often involved in deforestation or pollution.
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Whatever you call it, the new leader, Michel Temer, has an opportunity to return Brazil to policies that promote growth through fiscally sound social inclusion. Can he do it?
