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Brazil's Supreme Federal Court sentences three army officers and a federal police officer to 21–24 years in prison after finding them guilty of participating in a plot to kill then-president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other officials to prevent the 2023 transfer of power. The court rules that the group helped plan the broader coup attempt linked to former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was previously convicted in the same case.
2025-11-18

Brazil's Federal Senate approves a constitutional amendment that phases in court-ordered debt payments to fiscal target calculations beginning in 2027, initially counting 10% of the total and gradually reaching full inclusion over up to ten years.
2025-09-2

The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 85.
2024-05-6

Fourteen people are killed when a boat capsizes in Pará, Brazil.
2022-09-8

Brazil reports a record 137,102 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 23,211,894.
2022-01-18

The Brazilian Senate votes to charge President Jair Bolsonaro over his controversial handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The charges include crimes against humanity, incitement to crime, falsification of documents and the violation of social rights. Brazil's COVID-19 death toll is second only to that of the United States.
2021-10-27

British Columbia reports its first three cases of Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil.
2021-03-9

Separatists in Catalonia launch a general strike in protest of the trial of Catalonia independence leaders, with major participation of the educational community. Demonstrators block major roads, highways, train tracks and the entrance to the port of Tarragona.
2019-02-21

Three people are killed and 16 missing after three office buildings collapse in Cinelândia square in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2012-01-26

Brazilian police rescue 35 hostages from InterContinental in São Conrado, Rio de Janeiro.
2010-08-22