Sources: BBC
At least ten people are killed in a fire at a guesthouse in Porto Alegre, Brazil. 2024-04-26
The United Kingdom surpasses 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the fifth country to do so after the United States, Brazil, India, and Mexico. 2021-01-26
The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency announces that the country will receive 2 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine. 2021-01-3
Brazil reports 1,113 deaths, the country's highest in two weeks, thus bringing the death toll to 133,119. 2020-09-15
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
Brazil records their first death from COVID-19 in São Paulo state. 2020-03-17
Austrian MPs vote to demand a government veto on a proposed trade deal between the European Union and South American trade group Mercosur. The deal is the result of 20 years of negotiations. France and Ireland have previously threatened to also veto the deal unless Mercosur member Brazil increases efforts to fight ongoing Amazon rainforest wildfires. 2019-09-19
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
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signs a decree promising Brazil's co-operation with United Nations sanctions against Iran. 2010-08-11
Spaniard Fernando Alonso wins the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix Formula One race; Brazilian Felipe Massa comes in second. 2010-03-14