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The government announces that Brazil's economy has grown by 4.6%, the largest increase since 2011, after suffering a slump in 2020 due to the COVID-19 recession.
2022-03-4

Brazil signs a deal with Pfizer to purchase 100 million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine.
2021-03-15

The United Kingdom reports their first cases of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Manaus, Brazil in three people from England and three people from Scotland.
2021-02-28

Russia surpasses four million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fourth country to do so after the United States, India, and Brazil.
2021-02-10

Brazilian prosecutors file homicide charges against 21 people employed by the companies Samarco, Vale, and BHP Billiton for the November 2015 iron ore mine dam burst in the state of Minas Gerais that killed 19 people and polluted waterways.
2016-10-20

The Government of Brazil sues iron miner Samarco and parent companies Vale and BHP Billiton for 155 billion Brazilian reals ($43.5 billion US) for the collapse of a tailings dam that resulted in 19 deaths and caused major pollution to the Doce River.
2016-05-3

British bank HSBC agrees to sell its Brazilian banking business to Banco Bradesco for $5.2 billion.
2015-08-3

Indonesia executes six people for drug trafficking including foreign citizens from Brazil, Malawi, the Netherlands, Nigeria, and Vietnam. Brazil and the Netherlands withdraw their ambassadors in protest.
2015-01-18

At least 13 people are killed by floods and mudslides in Sao Paulo state, Brazil.
2011-01-11

The Instituto Butantan in São Paulo, Brazil, which had one of the world's largest snake collections, is destroyed by fire.
2010-05-17