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Brazilian federal police and the taxation authority conduct nationwide raids targeting organized crime schemes in the energy sector, investigating money laundering and fraud involving more than R$10 billion (US$1.9 billion) in imports, R$52 billion (US$9.7 billion) in domestic sales, and R$46 billion (US$8.6 billion) in related financial transactions.
2025-08-28

Brazil adopts a free trade agreement with the Palestinian Authority and ratifies an agreement with the Mercosur trade bloc. Uruguay also backs the deal with Palestine.
2024-07-8

Virginia reports its first two cases of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil.
2021-04-16

A seven-storey apartment block collapses in Fortaleza, Brazil. One person is confirmed dead with seven more rescued; a further ten people are believed to be trapped in the wreckage.
2019-10-15

More than 150 prominent scientists worldwide send a letter to World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan calling for the postponement or relocation of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics because of the widening Zika virus outbreak in Brazil, despite U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden's statement yesterday that "there is no public health reason to cancel or delay the Olympics."
2016-05-27

At least ten people are killed in Brazil's Minas Gerais state after a bus accident. [http:--www.nst.com.my-latest-10-dead-in-brazil-bus-accident-after-brakes-fail-1.318839?localLinksEnabled=false (AP via "New Straits Times")]date=April 2020
2013-07-13

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

An 82-year-old Brazilian Catholic priest from Arapiraca is defrocked after being filmed on camera engaging in sexual activity with a male teenage altar attendant. The activity was filmed by an alleged abuse survivor and broadcast on a news channel this week.
2010-03-19