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A Spanish court sentences three men to eight months in prison for racist chants directed towards Brazilian football player Vinícius Júnior.
2024-06-10

One person is killed and five others are injured in a mass stabbing at a school in São Paulo, Brazil.
2023-03-27

Twenty-one people are killed in a shootout between Brazilian police and the Comando Vermelho gang in a favela in Rio de Janeiro.
2022-05-24

Nevada reports its first three cases of the Lineage P.1 variant, which originated from Brazil.
2021-04-9

Brazilians elect Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party as president, with 55% of the vote, in the second round of the presidential election.
2018-10-28

Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed in the abdomen and seriously injured at a campaign rally. He is expected to be in intensive care for at least seven days. Police arrest a 40-year-old man they say appears mentally disturbed.
2018-09-6

Brazilian Minister Geddel Vieira Lima resigns following allegations he and President Michel Temer pressured a fellow cabinet minister into approving a real estate project.
2016-11-25

The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil rejects a bid by the Attorney General to suspend a vote in the parliament to begin impeachment procedures against the President Dilma Rousseff.
2016-04-15

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes rules Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should be stripped of a ministerial role in President Dilma Rousseff's Cabinet so he can be investigated in connection with the state oil company Petrobras's alleged kickback scheme. Earlier today, injunctions suspending Lula's appointment as chief of staff were overturned at Attorney General José Eduardo Cardozo's request for a Supreme Court ruling on the motions.
2016-03-18

At least seven people are killed and 20 missing after a bridge collapse in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
2010-01-5