Sources: Huffington Post
A Piper PA-24 Comanche crashes in the forest region between Rio Grande da Serra and Ribeirão Pires, in Greater São Paulo, Brazil. Two people were killed. 2024-01-25
Brazil and China sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary. 2023-03-29
At least 25 people are killed in a shootout between police and drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the deadliest police operation to occur in the country since 2016. 2021-05-6
Three children and two staff members are killed during a mass stabbing at a nursery school in Saudades, Brazil. Another child is wounded. The attacker then stabs himself and is currently in critical condition. 2021-05-4
The National Congress of Brazil approves an $8 billion spending package to help deal with the second wave of the pandemic in the country. 2021-03-11
Brazil reports a record 1,910 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 259,271. 2021-03-4
Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles tests positive for COVID-19. 2021-02-16
Brazil surpasses 200,000 deaths of COVID-19, becoming the second country to do so after the United States, as a record 87,843 cases are reported in the past 24 hours. 2021-01-7
After fifteen days of raging fires in the Amazon Forest in Rondônia, thick smoke clouds cover the Brazilian city of São Paulo in darkness. Street lamps had to be lit in the city around 2PM. The fires, suspected to be intentional, are still burning the forest. 2019-08-19
Public school teachers in the Brazilian state of São Paulo vote to return to work after three months of strike action. [https:--www.bbc.com-news-world-latin-america-33120843 (BBC)]|2015-06-12