Sources: BBC
The death toll from the highway collapse between Maranhão and Tocantins, Brazil, six days ago, increases to eleven, with six others still missing. 2024-12-28
A Brazilian judge orders a temporary shutdown of social media app Telegram over its failure to provide information on Neo-Nazi chat groups to the Federal Police of Brazil. 2023-04-26
Brazil surpasses 300,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the second country to do so after the U.S. 2021-03-24
The Supreme Court of Brazil orders Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello to fix the starting date for a nationwide vaccination program. 2020-12-13
France registers a record 52,010 new confirmed infections over the past 24 hours, according to a statement from the health ministry, taking the nationwide total to 1,138,507 and becoming the world's fifth highest number of cases after the United States, India, Brazil and Russia. 2020-10-25
Finland, current chair of the European Union, asks the bloc to contemplate a ban on beef from Brazil in response to the ongoing disaster. 2019-08-23
A landslide leaves at least 10 people dead while eleven others are injured in Niterói, Brazil. 2018-11-10
Officials with former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva say shots were fired at two of his reelection campaign buses. 2018-03-28
Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes Cabinet post as chief of staff to Brazil's current president, Dilma Rousseff, thereby gaining legal shield. Only the Brazilian Supreme Court can try presidential Cabinet members for crimes. 2016-03-16
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