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At least six people are killed, eight others are rescued, and six are trapped when a nursing home collapses in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
2026-03-5

The Brazilian Supreme Federal Court orders the preventive detention of former federal highway police chief Silvinei Vasques after he was captured in Paraguay while attempting to flee Brazil despite electronic tagging, following his conviction for involvement in the attempted coup.
2025-12-26

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

Georgia reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. It was found in a resident in Newton County.
2021-03-23

A group of gunmen attack a bank and block roads in Cametá, Brazil, taking several hostages and stealing money. The attackers kill a hostage with a gunshot to the head, while a security guard and a policeman are injured. Several shots and explosions were also reported. It appears that the target of the attack was a branch of Banco do Brasil, the same bank robbed in Criciúma the previous night.
2020-12-1

Brazil's Ministry of Health reports 641 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the death toll in the country to over 50,000.
2020-06-21

Paulinho Paiakan, leader of the indigenous Kayapo tribe, dies after being hospitalized with COVID-19 in Redenção, Brazil.
2020-06-17

Five unnamed Western European security sources say that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his father Kim Jong-il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports in order to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s.
2018-02-27

At least 25 people are killed after a truck and a bus collide in Brazil's Santa Catarina state.
2011-03-5

Brazilian police rescue 35 hostages from InterContinental in São Conrado, Rio de Janeiro.
2010-08-22