Sources: BBC
It is reported that wildfires have burned around 32000 ha of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal so far this year, a 935% increase in the number of fires that occurred in the same period last year. 2024-06-10
Russia surpasses seven million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fourth country to do so after the United States, India, and Brazil. 2021-09-5
Brazilian health regulator Anvisa grants a conditional approval for the Sputnik V and Covaxin vaccines. 2021-06-4
Family and friends of Brazilian Workers' Party activist Rodrigo Pilha, who has been imprisoned for over a month after displaying a banner calling President Jair Bolsonaro "genocidal" over poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic, say that he was beaten and tortured in prison by wardens. 2021-04-30
Switzerland reports its first case of the Brazilian P.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-9
David Miranda, journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner in covering United States and British mass surveillance programmes, arrives in Brazil, after being released from detainment at Heathrow airport, London. 2013-08-21
Papal conclave, 2013: The Brazilian Conference of Bishops (the largest such conference in the world) officially advises the cardinals of Brazil in the conclave explicitly to ask the mass media to print supportive articles on the Archbishop of São Paulo, Cardinal Odilo Scherer. 2013-03-6
Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega moves to secure the Brazilian real amid concerns expressed in the "Financial Times" of currency manipulation by the United States, China and others. 2011-01-10
A judge orders the arrest of Bruno Fernandes de Souza, one of Brazil's top footballers, in connection with the disappearance of his former mistress. 2010-07-7
The death toll in Brazilian storms rises to 46 in Brazil's Alagoas and Pernambuco states. 2010-06-24