Sources: BBC
The Federal Police of Brazil arrest at least eleven people in an operation aiming to reduce drug trafficking in favelas in Rio de Janeiro. 2025-06-10
Brazilian Military Police kill the main leader of the Terceiro Comando Puro, a drug trafficking criminal organization, and two other suspected members, in a shootout in the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro. 2025-05-13
Twenty-five people are killed and six others are injured in a crash involving a truck and a tourist minibus on a highway near São José do Jacuípe, Bahia, Brazil. 2024-01-8
The government of Brazil begins expelling non-indigenous residents off of the Apyterewa and Trincheira-Bacajá indigenous territories in Pará state. 2023-10-2
At least 43 people are killed in São Sebastião and another person is killed in Ubatuba during floods and landslides in São Paulo, Brazil. 2023-02-19
The government announces that Brazil's economy has grown by 4.6%, the largest increase since 2011, after suffering a slump in 2020 due to the COVID-19 recession. 2022-03-4
Russia reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 Gamma variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. 2021-07-22
Brazil's Ministry of Health reports 54,771 new cases and that there are now 1,032,913 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, becoming the second country in the world, after the United States, to surpass one million cases. 2020-06-19
Voters in Brazil go to the polls for the second round of a presidential election with incumbent President Dilma Rousseff re-elected. 2014-10-26
The death toll in Brazilian storms rises to 46 in Brazil's Alagoas and Pernambuco states. 2010-06-24