Sources: BBC
In Belém, Pará, Brazil, the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference begins. 2025-11-10
The Bank of England raises its interest rates by 0.75 percentage point, to 3.00%, the largest increase in 33 years, amid soaring inflation and a cost of living crisis in the UK. The bank also predicts a record-length recession, lasting until mid-2024. 2022-11-3
Alaska reports their first case of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil in a person from Anchorage with no known travel history. 2021-02-24
Brazil records their first death from COVID-19 in São Paulo state. 2020-03-17
An irregular gas company explodes and kills four people in Boa Vista, Brazil. 2019-10-15
Brazil formally withdraws from the UN's Global Compact for Migration pact; however, Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo says that the country will continue to accept Venezuelan refugees. 2019-01-8
More than 150 prominent scientists worldwide send a letter to World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan calling for the postponement or relocation of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics because of the widening Zika virus outbreak in Brazil, despite U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden's statement yesterday that "there is no public health reason to cancel or delay the Olympics." 2016-05-27
Clashes erupt outside the presidential palace in Brazil's capital Brasília between anti-Workers' Party protesters and supporters of ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, where he was due to be sworn in as President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff's chief of staff. Hundreds of anti-government protesters calling for Rousseff's impeachment and Lula's arrest also blocked the central Paulista Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city and economic hub. 2016-03-17
British bank HSBC agrees to sell its Brazilian banking business to Banco Bradesco for $5.2 billion. 2015-08-3
Huanglongbing or citrus greening, a disease which has killed millions of citrus trees in Brazil and Florida, is discovered in a residential section of Los Angeles County, California, in the United States. 2012-03-30