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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

Fourteen people are killed, six are missing, and three are injured after an apartment building collapsed in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
2023-07-7

At least four people are killed and thirteen others are injured after a fire breaks out in a shelter in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
2023-04-14

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

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

Supporters of the governing Workers’ Party took to the streets, in a sense answering the massive anti-government gatherings since Sunday, in all of Brazil’s 26 states. Organizations from both sides of the protests have called for people opposed to the Workers’ Party to stay home Friday to avoid a repeat of Thursday's clashes.
2016-03-18

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

The death toll in Brazilian storms rises to 46 in Brazil's Alagoas and Pernambuco states.
2010-06-24

The death toll from floods and mudslides reaches at least 31 people in Alagoas and Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil.
2010-06-22