The Latest Breaking News from Federal Police

A group of retired Federal Police detectives has released a statement accusing members of Brazil's Supreme Court of using the force to take what they called "authoritarian and illegal measures".

Illegal loggers have destroyed some 18,500 square kilometers (7,100 square miles) of public forests over the past six years in the Brazilian Amazon

A forensic exam carried out on human remains found in the Amazon rainforest confirmed on Friday that they belonged to British journalist Dom Phillips, Brazil's federal police said, adding that a search was underway for a man suspected of involvement in his killing.

Dom Phillips' wife Alessandra Sampaio said the discovery of her beloved husband's body would now allow his heartbroken family to "bring them home and say goodbye with love"

Manaus (Brazil) (AFP) - One of two men arrested over the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the Brazilian Amazon confessed to having buried the pair in the jungle, federal police said Wednesday after human remains were found.

Police have found human remains in their search for British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira after a suspect confessed to killing them in the Amazon rainforest, investigators said on Wednesday.

The family of the only suspect in the disappearance of a British journalist and Indigenous official in the Amazon is claiming he is innocent

Good morning, early birds. New Resources Minister Madeleine King has confirmed Labor will support WA’s $16.5 billion offshore Scarborough gas project, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has removed the Australian Federal Police from the Home Affairs portfolio. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

A preliminary autopsy concluded the man died of respiratory failure due to ‘mechanical asphyxia’