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Brazil reports its first "preliminary" cases of the Omicron variant in two people who travelled from South Africa.
2021-11-30

Greenpeace partially leaks a draft report from the International Panel on Climate Change, revealing that a number of large oil, coal, beef and animal feed-producing countries including Australia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Argentina are lobbying the IPCC for looser restrictions on global heating.
2021-10-21

India surpasses 400,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the third country to do so after the U.S. and Brazil.
2021-07-2

Prime Minister Jean Castex announces the suspension of flights from Brazil in order to prevent the spread of new variants of COVID-19 in the country.
2021-04-13

Brazil reports 85,663 new confirmed cases and 2,216 more deaths from COVID-19, surpassing India as the country with the second-highest number of cases in the world, and also bringing Brazil's total cases to 11,363,380.
2021-03-12

Switzerland reports its first case of the Brazilian P.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2.
2021-02-9

A seven-storey apartment block collapses in Fortaleza, Brazil. One person is confirmed dead with seven more rescued; a further ten people are believed to be trapped in the wreckage.
2019-10-15

Five unnamed Western European security sources say that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his father Kim Jong-il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports in order to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s.
2018-02-27

Brazil becomes the fifteenth country to legalise same-sex marriage.
2013-05-14

A twin-engine Embraer 821 plane crashes in the Brazilian state of Pará, killing all nine passengers and the pilot.
2013-03-13