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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy strongly denounces a Brazilian–Chinese peace initiative, stating that both nations are effectively siding with Russia for allowing the Russian army to take Ukrainian territory as a means to "de-escalate" the war instead of assisting Ukraine in resisting the invasion.
2024-09-12

Brazil and China sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary.
2023-03-29

Brazil reports a record for the third consecutive day of 228,954 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 24.7 million.
2022-01-28

Family and friends of Brazilian Workers' Party activist Rodrigo Pilha, who has been imprisoned for over a month after displaying a banner calling President Jair Bolsonaro "genocidal" over poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic, say that he was beaten and tortured in prison by wardens.
2021-04-30

China reports 101 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. This is the highest number of new cases since mid-April, and 89 of them are from Xinjiang.
2020-07-29

Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão says the government will not exclude Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co. from operating a fifth-generation (5G) mobile telecom network.
2019-06-7

Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in Durban for the 2013 BRICS summit.
2013-03-26

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in New Delhi, India, for the 2012 BRICS summit.
2012-03-29

Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa attend a BRICS summit in Sanya in China's Hainan Province.
2011-04-14

China surpassed the United States last year as the country with the most clean energy investment. China's clean energy investments were $34.6 billion, compared with U.S.A.'s $18.6 billion last year. The US still leads the world in installed renewable energy, with 52.2 gigawatts of wind energy, small hydroelectric, biomass and waste generating capacity, per a report by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts, but has dropped below ten other countries, including Canada and Mexico in investments as a share of the national economy.
2010-03-26