#jair-bolsonaro

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BRASILIA Jair Bolsonaro, the former right-wing president of Brazil, returned home on Thursday morning after a three-month self-imposed exile in the United States following his defeat last year in an election that tested the stability of one of the world's biggest democracies.He returns to a series of investigations that could see him arrested and face prison if found guilty for his role in spreading baseless claims that Brazil's election system was vulnerable to fraud despite reviews by independent security experts showing otherwise and that the left was bent on stealing the vote.

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Sam BordenESPN Senior Writer

CloseSam Borden is a senior writer for ESPN.com.DOHA, Qatar -- It is a meeting of titans and, really, the clash of the World Cup quarterfinals, a game where flickers of grace and beauty, of originality and style, will make it impossible to ever look away.

The News Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is scheduled to go on trial this month on charges that he abused his power as president to make baseless attacks against Brazil's election systems.If convicted, he would be ineligible to run for office for eight years.A panel of seven judges in Brazil's electoral court will decide the case, which is scheduled to start on June 22.

The News Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is scheduled to go on trial this month on charges that he abused his power as president to make baseless attacks against Brazil's election systems.If convicted, he would be ineligible to run for office for eight years.A panel of seven judges in Brazil's electoral court will decide the case, which is scheduled to start on June 22.

Rita Lee, a convention-flouting titan of Brazilian music who emerged with the seminal experimental band Os Mutantes and went on to become a solo star known widely as her country's Queen of Rock, died on Monday at her home in Sao Paulo.She was 75.Her death was announced in a statement posted on her Instagram account.

An illegal-fishing trafficker ordered henchmen to kill an expert on Indigenous tribes in June because he was disrupting the illicit game trade, Brazilian authorities said Monday, leading to an assassination that also left a British journalist dead.The killings attracted international attention to the bloody conflict over the Amazon rainforest.

RIO DE JANEIRO  Among the first Brazilians to vote on Sunday were President Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist challenger, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.Mr. Bolsonaro went to cast his ballot as soon as the gates opened at his polling location in a bucolic neighborhood on the western side of Rio de Janeiro, which is home to many military officers.

Rishi Sunak has pledged the UK's continued support for conserving threatened forests around the world, through a funding programme covering a third of the world's forests, at the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt.Brazil is expected to join the initiative, under the incoming president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and new funding from the public and private sector will take the spending for forest conservation above $20bn over the next five years.

The mastheads report on fears for the triple lock and expectations from Rishi Sunak's Government.The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express lead on reports the Prime Minister and the Chancellor plan to reverse the triple lock on pensions.Mr Sunak is meanwhile featured on the front of The Times warning that people cannot expect the state to fix everyone's problems.

The last time a leftist party held power in Brazil, in 2016, a right-wing fixture on the fringes of Congress was making a name for himself: Jair Bolsonaro.Among presidential hopefuls he was polling in the single digits, known for positions like exalting torturers.Pundits scoffed at the idea that he could one day win.

And Nike's advertising campaign for the new shirt features personalities from different sides of the political spectrum - focusing on togetherness as its main topic.Governments come and go, but our country and our team will always exist.""When our team enter the pitch, so does the pride we have as Brazilians.Djonga, who was part of Nike's official campaign for the Brazilian World Cup kit, told a crowd at one concert that wearing the shirt in public was an act of protest.And yet, for some Bolsonaro supporters, the shirt has become an even bigger symbol of patriotic love - taking on a new life during his government.