Sources: Al Jazeera
Six people are killed, including a five-year-old, and three others are injured when a boat capsizes and sinks on the Grande River in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2026-02-21
Brazil reports a record 224,567 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 24.5 million. 2022-01-26
Maine reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. 2021-03-26
Georgia reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. It was found in a resident in Newton County. 2021-03-23
Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras says it will not do business with tankers that visited Venezuela in the past year, adhering to sanctions placed by the United States. 2020-06-12
Hundreds of thousands of students, schoolteachers and university professors hold demonstrations across Brazil against sweeping cuts in the education budget. Protestors also voice opposition to the government's plan to delegate the administrative and financial management of federal universities and institutes to a privately-held fund. 2019-08-13
Brazilian prosecutors file homicide charges against 21 people employed by the companies Samarco, Vale, and BHP Billiton for the November 2015 iron ore mine dam burst in the state of Minas Gerais that killed 19 people and polluted waterways. 2016-10-20
A cargo train laden with corn derails in São José do Rio Preto in southeastern Brazil, smashing into houses and killing at least eight and injuring another six. 2013-11-25
Rescue efforts continue in Brazil in an attempt to locate around 200 people believed to have been buried in their homes by a large landslide in Morro do Bumba near Rio de Janeiro city in the state of Rio de Janeiro. 2010-04-9
The death toll in the storm which caused severe damage to Brazil's Rio de Janeiro metro area reaches 200. 2010-04-8