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Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz says that Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is a "persona non grata" in Israel until he retracts his comments comparing the war between Israel and Hamas to the Holocaust. In response, Brazil recalls its ambassador to Israel.
2024-02-19

At least 10 people are killed in a police raid on a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, days after 19 people in Bahia and 14 people in São Paulo State were killed in other raids.
2023-08-2

Brazil reports a record 224,567 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 24.5 million.
2022-01-26

Massachusetts confirms its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant that originated in Brazil.
2021-03-16

The National Congress of Brazil approves an $8 billion spending package to help deal with the second wave of the pandemic in the country.
2021-03-11

Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac appears to be safe in providing protection against COVID-19, as preliminary results of Phase III clinical trial in Brazil show. São Paulo's Instituto Butantan, one of Brazil's leading biomedical research centres carrying out the trials, says CoronaVac proved to be safe after its two doses were applied to 9,000 volunteers, but said data on how effective it is in protecting people against COVID-19 will not be released until it has been tested on all 15,000 volunteers in newly expanded trials.
2020-10-19

Brazil surpasses two million cases. The death toll reaches 76,000.
2020-07-16

Two indigenous leaders from the Guajajara tribe are shot dead in a drive-by shooting on a federal highway in Brazil's Maranhão state.
2019-12-7

Brazil's lower house of Congress opens impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff over a corruption scandal involving the state-owned oil giant, Petrobras.
2015-12-2

Floods in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, kill more than 250 people.
2011-01-12