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Brazil and Venezuela will reopen their border after a two year closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022-02-25

Brazil reports its first "preliminary" cases of the Omicron variant in two people who travelled from South Africa.
2021-11-30

At least 16 people in Bandeira do Sul are killed after a high-voltage electric powerline crashed onto a float participating in a parade ahead of Brazil's carnival celebrations.
2011-02-28

Floods in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, kill more than 250 people.
2011-01-12

Voters in Brazil go to the polls for the second round of the Brazilian presidential election between Dilma Rousseff and José Serra. Rousseff won 55% of the vote and will become the first female President of Brazil.
2010-10-31

Voters in Brazil go to the polls in a presidential election with a runoff election likely between Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party and José Serra of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party.
2010-10-3

110 people are wounded as a stadium collapses during a car race in Paraná, Brazil.
2010-09-20

Candidates commence daily broadcasts in Brazil ahead of general and presidential elections on 3 October.
2010-08-18

Brazil's four main presidential election candidates participate in their first televised debate.
2010-08-6

At least 19 people are dead and five are injured as mudslide hits an island resort near Angra dos Reis, Ilha Grande. Large numbers also killed elsewhere in Brazil.
2010-01-1