Sources: Huffington Post
A Brazilian regional federal court orders former president Jair Bolsonaro and the federal government to each pay BRA:1000000 cursign=R$}} in damages for racist remarks he made in 2021 while in office. 2025-09-16
The government announces that Brazil's economy has grown by 4.6%, the largest increase since 2011, after suffering a slump in 2020 due to the COVID-19 recession. 2022-03-4
The Ministry of Health announces that Brazil will begin offering booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to immunocompromised people and people over the age of 70 who received their second dose more than six months ago and will also shorten the interval between the first and second doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines to eight weeks beginning in mid-September. 2021-08-25
Brazil reports a record 100,158 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. 2021-03-25
Brazil signs a deal with Pfizer to purchase 100 million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine. 2021-03-15
Russia surpasses four million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fourth country to do so after the United States, India, and Brazil. 2021-02-10
Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras says it will not do business with tankers that visited Venezuela in the past year, adhering to sanctions placed by the United States. 2020-06-12
Hundreds of thousands of students, schoolteachers and university professors hold demonstrations across Brazil against sweeping cuts in the education budget. Protestors also voice opposition to the government's plan to delegate the administrative and financial management of federal universities and institutes to a privately-held fund. 2019-08-13
Brazil announces a $17 billion austerity package after Standard and Poors further downgrades its credit rating. 2015-09-14