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Brazil blocks X after they ignore court orders relating to misinformation about the 2023 Brazilian Congress attack on the platform.
2024-08-30

Brazil adopts a free trade agreement with the Palestinian Authority and ratifies an agreement with the Mercosur trade bloc. Uruguay also backs the deal with Palestine.
2024-07-8

Brazil reports the deaths of 522 seals along the coast of Rio Grande do Sul, attributing the cause to avian flu.
2023-10-25

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly wins election to Brazil's presidency with 50.9% of the vote, defeating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the second-round run-off.
2022-10-30

India reports their first four cases of the 501.V2 variant from South Africa and one case of the Lineage P.1 variant from Brazil in people who traveled internationally.
2021-02-16

Russia surpasses three million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fourth country to do so after the United States, India, and Brazil.
2020-12-26

Seven bodies are recovered from the base of Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2018-06-10

Fifteen people are injured and an infant is killed after a car hits a group of pedestrians near Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The police report that the driver had an epileptic seizure.
2018-01-19

Pope Francis begins a week-long official visit to Brazil, his first foreign trip since assuming the pontificate.
2013-07-22

An 82-year-old Brazilian Catholic priest from Arapiraca is defrocked after being filmed on camera engaging in sexual activity with a male teenage altar attendant. The activity was filmed by an alleged abuse survivor and broadcast on a news channel this week.
2010-03-19