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The Brazilian environment and climate change ministry reports that deforestation in the Amazon rainforest decreased by 30.6% compared to last year, the lowest level in nine years. Additionally, deforestation in the Cerrado tropical savannah region decreased by 25.7%, the first decrease in five years.
2024-11-8

Scalabrinian nun sister Rosita Milesi is awarded the Nansen Refugee Award by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for her work with refugees and internally displaced people in Brazil for over 40 years.
2024-10-9

Ten people are killed and 42 others are injured when a bus crashes into a bridge in São Paulo state, Brazil.
2024-07-5

Brazil reports a record 137,102 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 23,211,894.
2022-01-18

Brazil surpasses 10 million cases of COVID-19, being the second country to do so after the United States.
2021-02-18

India surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, becoming the third country to reach that milestone behind the United States and Brazil.
2020-10-3

More text messages between judge Sérgio Moro and prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol are leaked, implicating Vice-President of the Supreme Federal Court Luiz Fux in illicit collaboration between Brazilian judges and Car Wash's team of prosecutors.
2019-06-12

Fifteen days after the first wave of protests, millions of students, schoolteachers and university professors hold demonstrations in over a hundred Brazilian cities against massive cuts in the education budget. Brazilian Education Minister Abraham Weintraub accuses teachers of "coercing" students into participating in the protests.
2019-05-30

Three people, two employees of a television company and a Brazilian Air Force sergeant, are killed when their Robinson R44 crashes into the sea at Praia de Pina, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
2018-01-23

A standoff between security forces and striking policemen occupying the state legislature continues in Salvador, Brazil.
2012-02-7