Sources: Huffington Post
The Brazilian Supreme Federal Court convicts former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup in 2022 after he lost the election to Lula and imposes a 27-year prison sentence. 2025-09-11
Twenty percent of the Brasília National Forest in Brazil is destroyed by a wildfire that investigators suspect was started deliberately. 2024-09-4
Brazil reports its first death from monkeypox in a 41-year-old man from Belo Horizonte who had lymphoma and a weakened immune system. 2022-07-29
Brazil, Greece and Ghana report their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-8
Brazil and Venezuela will reopen their border after a two year closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022-02-25
Brazil becomes the first country in the Southern Hemisphere to surpass 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, as the death toll rises to 1,068 and 19,789 total cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. 2020-04-11
Judge Keyla Blanc, of Brazil's Special Tribunal for Fans and Major Events, orders Brazil police to question U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte over inconsistencies describing the armed robbery of himself and three other American Olympians. Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger are later removed from a plane returning to the United States. 2016-08-17
Pope Francis begins a week-long official visit to Brazil, his first foreign trip since assuming the pontificate. 2013-07-22
More than 2,000 Brazilian police and military personnel enter the Alemão slum of Rio de Janeiro in search of drug traffickers, in efforts to boost security well ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games. 2010-11-28