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Brazil, Greece and Ghana report their first cases of monkeypox.
2022-06-8

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

British Columbia reports its first three cases of Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil.
2021-03-9

A plane crashes in Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil, killing four Palmas Futebol e Regatas footballers, their team's president, and the pilot.
2021-01-24

Two indigenous leaders from the Guajajara tribe are shot dead in a drive-by shooting on a federal highway in Brazil's Maranhão state.
2019-12-7

Officials with former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva say shots were fired at two of his reelection campaign buses.
2018-03-28

Clashes between rival gangs in at least two prisons in Brazil, leave at least 18 people killed.
2016-10-17

Brazil's Federal Accounts Court (TCU), in a unanimous 8-0 decision, rules that President Dilma Rousseff's government manipulated its accounts in 2014 to disguise a widening fiscal deficit. The ruling, while not legally binding, is expected to be used by opposition lawmakers who are calling for impeachment proceedings.
2015-10-7

Brazil calls on the United States, asking to explain why US intelligence agencies have been monitoring millions of emails and phone calls of Brazilian citizens in their country.
2013-07-8

President of the United States Barack Obama is announced to visit Brazil, Chile and El Salvador from March 19 to 23.
2011-02-18