Brazilians take to the streets in protest against jair balsinaro. The country is populous president, though his popularity has long been waning. An enormous study of birds strongly suggests that tropical creatures are more colorful than previously thought.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left office with a sky-high approval rating, having raised millions from poverty—but was then convicted of corruption. Now he wants his old job back. Forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields, once widespread, is swiftly vanishing. And an old hypothesis confirmed: birds get more colourful the closer they live to the equator.
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