Sources: Huffington Post
Ten people are killed and several others are injured after large floods engulf the city of Ipatinga in Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2025-01-12
The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 136, with 125 still missing, and more than 300,000 people displaced. 2024-05-11
Brazil reports a record for the third consecutive day of 228,954 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 24.7 million. 2022-01-28
British Columbia reports its first three cases of Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil. 2021-03-9
Voters go to the polls in municipal elections that are held in Brazilian cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, and São Paulo. 2020-11-29
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
In Paraguay, around 50 armed men, allegedly belonging to the Brazil-based Primeiro Comando da Capital criminal gang, storm a security vault and police headquarters in Ciudad del Este, escaping with around $6 million in a daring cross-border raid. 2017-04-24
Seventy-five additional bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil two years ago, killing all 228 people aboard, bringing the total recovered so far to 127. 2011-05-31
3 people are trapped and 6 others are injured after a 30-storey building collapses in Belém, Pará, Brazil. 2011-01-30
Scientists investigate the deaths of approximately 500 penguins whose corpses washed up on Brazilian beaches. 2010-07-21