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Protests have erupted in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro after an eight-year-old girl was allegedly killed by police, as the number of victims in operations by security forces continues to rise. Ágatha Vitória Sales Félix was with her grandmother in a van when she was shot in the back in a …

Conditions at a prison in Brazil where 57 inmates were killed in fighting on Monday have been described as “terrible” in an official report. The National Justice Council said that Altamira jail in north-eastern Pará state contained more than double the number of inmates it was built for. It also …