Brazil
Brazil reaches $23 billion settlement with mining firms over 2015 environmental disaster
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement worth tens of billions of dollars with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that was one of the country’s worst-ever environmental disasters.
FILE - A car and two dogs are on the roof of destroyed houses at the small town of Bento Rodrigues after a dam burst in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
SAO PAULO – Brazil's federal government on Friday reached a... [4771 chars]