Sources: GloboNews
The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 85. 2024-05-6
The death toll from ongoing flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, increases to 13. 2024-05-2
A woman dies at the first of American singer Taylor Swift's concerts at the Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during a day when temperatures reached 39.1 C. Swift postpones her second concert in the city due to the heat. 2023-11-18
A police raid in a favela in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, results in the deaths of 13 people and the capture of two Comando Vermelho gang leaders from the northern states of Pará and Sergipe. 2023-03-23
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
Brazil surpasses five million COVID-19 cases, becoming the third country to reach that milestone after the United States and India. 2020-10-7
The Brazilian state of Bahia is expected to conduct phase III trails of Russia's Gam-COVID-Vac vaccine and buy 50 million doses. 2020-09-11
At least 62 people are killed, including sixteen who were beheaded, during prison riots in Pará, Brazil, which saw rival gangs battle for five hours. 2019-07-29
Scientists investigate the deaths of approximately 500 penguins whose corpses washed up on Brazilian beaches. 2010-07-21
Brazilian land reform activist Pedro Alcantara de Souza is fatally shot five times in the head by two men on motorcycles as he tries to ride his own bicycle in Pará. 2010-04-2