Sources: BBC
At least eight people are killed in police raids in Curitiba, Brazil. 2022-08-11
India surpasses 300,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the third country to do so after the United States and Brazil. India recorded its last 100,000 deaths in less than a month. Experts warn that the real number of deaths could be much higher as many are not officially recorded; some models speculate that about a million people may have actually died. 2021-05-24
Brazil reports 85,663 new confirmed cases and 2,216 more deaths from COVID-19, surpassing India as the country with the second-highest number of cases in the world, and also bringing Brazil's total cases to 11,363,380. 2021-03-12
Nelson Teich resigns as Brazil's Minister of Health less than a month into office amid disagreements with President Jair Bolsonaro over the federal government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020-05-15
Germany and Norway cease paying into the Amazon Fund, citing concerns over Brazil's environmental policies and the role they have played in the fires. 2019-09-1
Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie announces that the European Union and Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay achieved a breakthrough in free-trade talks after 20 years. 2019-06-28
Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed in the abdomen and seriously injured at a campaign rally. He is expected to be in intensive care for at least seven days. Police arrest a 40-year-old man they say appears mentally disturbed. 2018-09-6
Protesters in Brazil hold a violent demonstration against a proposed public spending cap in the capital Brasilia. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets in order to disperse the demonstrators. 2016-11-29
A bus crash in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina kills at least 51 people. 2015-03-14
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