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Brazil's Supreme Federal Court rules that Indigenous land rights constitute unamendable constitutional guarantees, thereby blocking congressional efforts to restrict the recognition of Indigenous territories and reinforcing existing protections despite pending legislative opposition.
2025-12-17

Forty-one people are killed and seven more are injured when a bus collides with a granite block that fell from a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
2024-12-21

Fourteen people are killed in a plane crash in Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil.
2023-09-16

Brazil reports a record 298,408 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 26.09 million.
2022-02-3

A University of Campinas study finds that the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine is less effective against the Lineage P.1 Gamma variant, which originated in Brazil.
2021-07-9

Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles tests positive for COVID-19.
2021-02-16

Brazilian Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes announces that the full members of Mercosur—Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay—are negotiating a free trade deal with the United States.
2019-07-31

Several buses are set alight and an electronics store looted in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo following Brazil's crushing defeat by Germany in the World Cup semi-final.
2014-07-8

Police in Brazil arrest almost the entire council in the city of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, on suspicion of fraud and corruption, leaving the city without a government.
2010-09-2

A judge orders the arrest of Bruno Fernandes de Souza, one of Brazil's top footballers, in connection with the disappearance of his former mistress.
2010-07-7