Sources: Al Jazeera
A court declares Brazilian telecommunications company Oi bankrupt, the largest bankruptcy in the country's history. 2025-11-10
A court in Lima, Peru, sentences former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia to 15 years in prison for laundering funds from Brazilian company Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 presidential campaigns. 2025-04-15
The Brazilian Senate releases a report recommending that President Jair Bolsonaro should face criminal charges for homicide regarding his response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. 2021-10-19
Brazil prosecutors open a probe into President Jair Bolsonaro for his role in a scandal involving the Covaxin vaccine. 2021-07-2
Three children and two staff members are killed during a mass stabbing at a nursery school in Saudades, Brazil. Another child is wounded. The attacker then stabs himself and is currently in critical condition. 2021-05-4
Brazil reports a record 1,972 new deaths in the past 24 hours amid slow vaccination rollout and overwhelmed hospitals, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 268,370. 2021-03-9
A twin-engine Embraer 821 plane crashes in the Brazilian state of Pará, killing all nine passengers and the pilot. 2013-03-13
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