Sources: MercoPress The Wall Street Journal
Brazil announces that it will revoke a decree expanding the waterways in the Amazon rainforest under a federal privatization program following protests by Indigenous groups. 2026-02-23
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
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
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, approves a bill to modernize the infrastructure of all national ports in her country. She vetoes 13 contradictory sections. 2013-06-6
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