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The Brazil Federal Police arrests seven military police officers that are accused of assisting right-wing rioters and supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro during the January 8 attacks on government buildings in Brasília.
2023-08-18

The first case in Latin America is confirmed by the Ministry of Health of Brazil in São Paulo.
2020-02-26

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

A helicopter carrying Brazilian journalist and news anchor Ricardo Boechat crashes in São Paulo, killing both Boechat and the pilot.
2019-02-11

At least 15 people are killed by flooding and mudslides in and around São Paulo, Brazil, following heavy rain.
2016-03-11

Brazilian police clash with protestors angry over the cost of hosting the World Cup in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
2014-05-16

More than 3 million people take part in "the world's largest gay pride parade" in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2013-06-3

Fernando Haddad is elected mayor of São Paulo, giving the governing Workers' Party control of Brazil's financial capital and biggest city.
2012-10-29

José Alencar, Vice-President and current Acting President of Brazil in the absence of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is taken to the Sirio Libanes hospital in São Paulo following a heart attack.
2010-11-12

A fire at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, destroys its entire collection of preserved snakes—the world's largest—and nearly half a million arachnid specimens, including many novel and yet-unclassified species.
2010-05-15