Sources: BBC
At a meeting with Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces his bid for a fourth non-consecutive term in next year's election. 2025-10-23
Eight people are killed and two others are injured in a vehicle collision on the BR-491 highway in Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2025-08-4
Russia surpasses seven million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fourth country to do so after the United States, India, and Brazil. 2021-09-5
Virginia reports its first two cases of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. 2021-04-16
Brazil reports a record 4,195 deaths in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 336,947. It was the first time that the country surpassed the mark of 4,000 deaths in a single day. 2021-04-6
Maryland reports their first case of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil in a deceased adult aged older than 65 living in Washington metropolitan area, who had international travel. 2021-02-17
Argentina surpasses one million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fifth country to do so after the United States, India, Brazil, and Russia. 2020-10-19
President Rodrigo Duterte rejects the prospect of reopening the country during a televised cabinet meeting. He goes on to claim that following the examples of the United States', Brazil's and others' "bold actions" would result in "pandemonium", and the potential resultant spike in COVID-19 cases would land the nation in "deep shit". 2020-07-9
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
Crowds gather throughout Brazil to demand the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff due to a bribery and corruption scandal involving senior members of the governing Workers' Party. Recent polls show her approval ratings below 10%. 2015-08-16