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The government of Brazil begins expelling non-indigenous residents off of the Apyterewa and Trincheira-Bacajá indigenous territories in Pará state.
2023-10-2

A police raid in a favela in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, results in the deaths of 13 people and the capture of two Comando Vermelho gang leaders from the northern states of Pará and Sergipe.
2023-03-23

Fourteen people are killed when a boat capsizes in Pará, Brazil.
2022-09-8

Russia reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 Gamma variant, which was originally detected in Brazil.
2021-07-22

At least 62 people are killed, including sixteen who were beheaded, during prison riots in Pará, Brazil, which saw rival gangs battle for five hours.
2019-07-29

Several gunmen open fire inside a bar in Belém, Brazil, killing at least eleven people.
2019-05-19

Brazilian President Michel Temer abolishes the 46,000 km 2 National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca) ecological reserve, which spans the borders of Amapá and Pará states in northern Brazil. More than 20 domestic and multinational firms have expressed an interest in accessing the area's deposits of gold, copper, tantalum, iron ore, nickel and manganese.
2017-08-25

A twin-engine Embraer 821 plane crashes in the Brazilian state of Pará, killing all nine passengers and the pilot.
2013-03-13

Brazilian land reform activist Pedro Alcantara de Souza is fatally shot five times in the head by two men on motorcycles as he tries to ride his own bicycle in Pará.
2010-04-2