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Russia's Lukoil begins shipping crude oil from Murmansk to Madre de Deus, Brazil.
2023-09-8

Brazil and Venezuela will reopen their border after a two year closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022-02-25

Prime Minister Jean Castex announces the suspension of flights from Brazil in order to prevent the spread of new variants of COVID-19 in the country.
2021-04-13

Brazil's Ministry of Health reports 641 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the death toll in the country to over 50,000.
2020-06-21

After fifteen days of raging fires in the Amazon Forest in Rondônia, thick smoke clouds cover the Brazilian city of São Paulo in darkness. Street lamps had to be lit in the city around 2PM. The fires, suspected to be intentional, are still burning the forest.
2019-08-19

A judge in Peru issues an arrest warrant for former President Alejandro Toledo for allegedly receiving US$20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, in exchange for a contract deal to build a transoceanic highway between Brazil and the Peruvian coast. Toledo denies any wrongdoing.
2017-02-10

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

Seventeen people are killed and 34 others are injured in a bus crash near the town of Taperas, Bolivia, along a newly built highway to Brazil.
2013-01-24

Credit rating agency Moody's in its weekly credit report dismisses the significance of last week's EU agreement, saying it "does not change our view that risks to the cohesion of the euro area continue to rise." [https:--www.cnbc.com-id-45636510 (Reuters)]date=August 2019
2011-12-12

The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency downgrades the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. [https:--www.reuters.com-article-2011-08-06-us-usa-debt-downgrade-idUSTRE7746VF20110806 (Reuters)] [http:--www.ajc.com-business-s-p-downgrades-us-1080498.html (AP via "Atlanta Journal-Constitution")]date=July 2019
2011-08-5