Sources: Huffington Post
Brazilian Military Police kill the main leader of the Terceiro Comando Puro, a drug trafficking criminal organization, and two other suspected members, in a shootout in the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro. 2025-05-13
Twelve people are killed and twenty-one others were injured in a bus crash in São Paulo, Brazil. 2025-02-21
The death toll from ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 90, with more than 150,000 people left homeless. 2024-05-7
India surpasses Brazil as the country with the second-most cases in the world, behind the United States. India reported 90,802 cases in the past 24 hours and 1,016 deaths, recording the single largest increase of cases in the world in almost a month. 2020-09-7
Brazil prison officials report at least 42 prisoners are found strangled to death in four separate jails in the state of Amazonas. Yesterday, 15 prisoners were killed in a fight between rival prison gangs at a facility near the Amazonas capital Manaus. 2019-05-27
Oil workers in Brazil start a 72-hour strike, amid the ongoing truck drivers' strike. 2018-05-30
At least 10 people are killed in a prison riot between rival gangs in Natal, Brazil. 2017-01-15
Police again fire tear gas at demonstrators participating in nationwide protests across Brazil. 2013-06-23
A judge orders the arrest of Bruno Fernandes de Souza, one of Brazil's top footballers, in connection with the disappearance of his former mistress. 2010-07-7