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A blimp promoting Brazil soccer team São Paulo FC crashes into houses in the Brazilian municipality of Osasco, injuring the pilot.
2024-09-25

Fifty-nine percent of Brazil's area suffers from significant drought conditions, the worst national drought recorded. These conditions cause historically low Amazon basin levels and are contributing to at least 160,000 wildfires in 2024 that are causing widespread air pollution.
2024-09-9

The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 100, with 128 people still missing and 163,000 people displaced.
2024-05-8

Israel criticizes the government of Brazil for allowing two Iranian warships to dock in Rio de Janeiro and urges Brazil to send the warships away calling it a "dangerous and regretful development".
2023-03-2

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes near Tarija, Bolivia, and is felt as far as São Paulo, Brazil, approximately 3,000 km away. There are no reports of major damage or casualties.
2018-04-2

An apparent gang riot at Colonia Agroindustrial prison in Goiânia, Brazil, results in nine deaths and 14 inmates injured. Authorities report 233 prisoners escaped but now only 95 prisoners remain at large.
2018-01-1

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

Further landslides and more rain are feared in Brazil which is dealing with the worst disaster in its history.
2011-01-16