Sources: BBC
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro starts his 27-year sentence for leading a coup plot. 2025-11-25
Brazilian police arrest a Syrian consulate employee in Brazil after discovering over 600 smuggled electronic devices and other luxury goods valued at over US$700,000 in his diplomatic vehicle during a highway inspection in Ponta Porã. 2025-03-31
A tourist dies on the stairs of the "Christ the Redeemer" statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, causing a temporary closure of the monument. 2025-03-17
Four people are killed and 12 others injured in a mass shooting targeting two schools in Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil. The suspect, a 16-year-old boy, is later arrested. 2022-11-25
Gabon, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Ghana and Albania are elected non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for the 2022–2023 term. 2021-06-11
Brazil's Ministry of Health reports a record 34,918 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,282 more deaths in the last 24 hours. Despite the record daily rise, Chief of Staff of the Presidency Walter Souza Braga Netto says the virus is now under control. 2020-06-16
Colombian Ministers of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Health meet with their Brazilian counterparts to coordinate a joint response to the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in the border region between both countries. 2020-05-15
Brazilian Minister Geddel Vieira Lima resigns following allegations he and President Michel Temer pressured a fellow cabinet minister into approving a real estate project. 2016-11-25
Brazilian police charge 16 people in connection with the Kiss nightclub fire last January including the owner of the club which killed 241 people and injured 168. 2013-03-23
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, best known for designing the main buildings of the capital Brasília, dies at the age of 104 in a Rio de Janeiro hospital. 2012-12-5