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A court in Brazil sentences two former Military Police officers to 59 and 78 years in prison respectively for the assassination of Rio de Janeiro city councilor and human rights activist Marielle Franco in 2018.
2024-10-31

SpaceX removes its employees from Brazil amid ongoing legal issues between CEO Elon Musk and the Brazilian Supreme Court over Musk's social media company X.
2024-09-4

Fourteen people are killed, six are missing, and three are injured after an apartment building collapsed in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
2023-07-7

At least four people are killed and thirteen others are injured after a fire breaks out in a shelter in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
2023-04-14

At least 106 people are killed by mudslides and flooding in the Recife metropolitan area, Pernambuco, Brazil.
2022-05-28

Brazilian drug regulator Anvisa approves the use of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children between the ages of 6 and 11 years.
2022-01-20

Yukon confirms their first two cases of the Lineage P.1 variant that originated in Brazil.
2021-04-14

British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announces a ban on all travellers from South American countries, as well as Portugal, Panama and Cape Verde due to a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that was identified in Brazil. The ban will come into effect tomorrow at 4:00 a.m. GMT.
2021-01-14

The death toll from floods and mudslides reaches at least 31 people in Alagoas and Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil.
2010-06-22

The death toll as a result of recent mudslides which have hit Brazil rises to more than 85, including at least 29 in a hotel collapse, and two nuclear power stations are intended to be shut down as a precaution.
2010-01-3