Sources: BBC
Brazilian Federal Police indicts former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others for attempting a coup after he lost to Lula da Silva in the 2022 election. 2024-11-21
Brazil declares an animal health emergency for the next 180 days after the detection of the influenza A virus subtype H5N1 for the first time in the country. 2023-05-22
Brazil reports its first two cases of the Deltacron variant in the Northern states of Pará and Amapá. 2022-03-15
Thailand reports its first case of a SARS-CoV-2 variant that originated from Brazil in an overseas traveler who is currently in quarantine. 2021-05-5
Prime Minister Jean Castex announces the suspension of flights from Brazil in order to prevent the spread of new variants of COVID-19 in the country. 2021-04-13
Nevada reports its first three cases of the Lineage P.1 variant, which originated from Brazil. 2021-04-9
The total number of COVID-19 deaths in Brazil surpasses 100,000. 2020-08-8
Brazilian police detain fugitive Italian former left-wing guerrilla and convicted murderer Cesare Battisti, as he was attempting to flee across the border into Bolivia to avoid extradition back to Italy and facing his life sentence prison term for four murders in the 1970s. 2017-10-4
At least 10 people are killed in a prison riot between rival gangs in Natal, Brazil. 2017-01-15
Brazil pulls out of an electoral mission to observe crucial legislative elections in Venezuela over what it says are a lack of guarantees by the government of Venezuela and its veto of the choice to head the delegation. 2015-10-20