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A Voepass Linhas Aéreas ATR 72-500 aircraft crashes in Vinhedo, São Paulo, Brazil, killing all 62 people on board.
2024-08-9

It is reported that wildfires have burned around 32000 ha of tropical wetland in Brazil's Pantanal so far this year, a 935% increase in the number of fires that occurred in the same period last year.
2024-06-10

Brazil reports its first "preliminary" cases of the Omicron variant in two people who travelled from South Africa.
2021-11-30

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

Brazilian Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes announces that the full members of Mercosur—Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay—are negotiating a free trade deal with the United States.
2019-07-31

A fire at Flamengo sports club's youth training camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, leaves ten people dead and three injured.
2019-02-8

Oil workers in Brazil start a 72-hour strike, amid the ongoing truck drivers' strike.
2018-05-30

Amid impeachment proceedings in Brazil against President Dilma Rousseff Pope Francis appeals for prayer and dialogue.
2016-05-12

Brazilian police begin an operation in a shanty town in Rio de Janeiro to end a surge of violence; at least 30 people have been killed in recent days.
2010-11-25

Brazil's four main presidential election candidates participate in their first televised debate.
2010-08-6