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Twenty-three people are killed in a rainstorm in Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states, Brazil.
2024-03-24

Brazil is affected by a nationwide blackout, with all of the states connected to the national energy system impacted. The state of Roraima is unaffected as it has its own energy system. The cause of the outage is still unknown.
2023-08-15

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

Flooding in the Bahia state of Northeast Brazil kills 18 people.
2021-12-27

Brazil reports a record 3,650 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2021-03-26

The Brazilian state of Bahia is expected to conduct phase III trails of Russia's Gam-COVID-Vac vaccine and buy 50 million doses.
2020-09-11

At least 39 people are dead in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo after heavy rains hit the country's southeast region.
2020-01-26

A massive blackout hits Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil, leaving millions without power.
2019-06-16

Brazilian soldiers arrive in Teresópolis as the death toll from floods and mudslides during Brazil's deadliest disaster passes 600.
2011-01-15

95 farm workers are rescued from difficult living conditions in two south-eastern states (Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro (state)) of Brazil.
2010-09-12