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Extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil causes the river banks of the city of Manaus to fall to their lowest levels since 1902, severely impacting trade in the region.
2024-10-4

Brazil prosecutors open a probe into President Jair Bolsonaro for his role in a scandal involving the Covaxin vaccine.
2021-07-2

Armed miners on seven boats attack the indigenous Yanomami community in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, opening fire against them and wounding one person. The Yanomami respond to the fire, killing three miners and wounding four others.
2021-05-11

Nevada reports its first three cases of the Lineage P.1 variant, which originated from Brazil.
2021-04-9

Brazil surpasses 10 million cases of COVID-19, being the second country to do so after the United States.
2021-02-18

Brazil readies its military to fight wildfires in the Amazon rainforest, but does not deploy troops.
2019-08-24

A judge in Peru issues an arrest warrant for former President Alejandro Toledo for allegedly receiving US$20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, in exchange for a contract deal to build a transoceanic highway between Brazil and the Peruvian coast. Toledo denies any wrongdoing.
2017-02-10

Dilma Rousseff and Barack Obama greet each other in spite of revelations of spying on the Brazilian leader in the Global surveillance disclosures.
2013-12-10

Footage of the isolated and previously unseen Kawahiva tribe is recorded for the first time in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil.
2013-08-13

Special services are held in Brazil in memory of the 237 people killed in last week's Kiss nightclub fire in Santa Maria.
2013-02-3