Sources: Los Angeles Times
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approves a bill that reduces penalties for certain crimes, including attempted coup, which could significantly shorten former president Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year prison sentence. 2025-12-10
Four people, including Chinese architect Kongjian Yu, are killed when a Cessna 175 Skylark aircraft crashes in Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. 2025-09-23
Russia surpasses seven million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fourth country to do so after the United States, India, and Brazil. 2021-09-5
President Jair Bolsonaro signs a law allowing vaccine and medication patents to be broken in situations of public health emergency in Brazil, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021-09-2
India reports their first four cases of the 501.V2 variant from South Africa and one case of the Lineage P.1 variant from Brazil in people who traveled internationally. 2021-02-16
The first case in Latin America is confirmed by the Ministry of Health of Brazil in São Paulo. 2020-02-26
A bus plunges over a ravine in Brazil's São Paulo state, resulting in at least 18 people killed and 28 injured. 2016-06-9
Voters in Brazil go to the polls for the second round of a presidential election with incumbent President Dilma Rousseff re-elected. 2014-10-26
At least ten people are killed in Brazil's Minas Gerais state after a bus accident. [http:--www.nst.com.my-latest-10-dead-in-brazil-bus-accident-after-brakes-fail-1.318839?localLinksEnabled=false (AP via "New Straits Times")]date=April 2020 2013-07-13
A man is killed and at least 74 people are injured in major riots in the Greek capital Athens on the second day of a nationwide general strike, as Greeks protest in their thousands against new austerity measures intended to alleviate the country's ongoing debt crisis. 2011-10-20