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The estimated area burned by wildfires in Brazil this year reaches 37.6 e6ha, an area larger than the size of Germany and more than double the yearly average from 2012–2023.
2024-09-14

At least 25 people are killed in a shootout between police and drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the deadliest police operation to occur in the country since 2016.
2021-05-6

Louisiana reports their first two cases of the Lineage P.1 variant that originated in Brazil.
2021-04-29

President Joe Biden signs an order banning travel from South Africa due to fears of the 501.V2 variant; the ban is expected to take effect on January 30. Additionally, Biden also extends travel restrictions to Brazil, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and other European countries, which were expected to expire tomorrow under an executive order signed by former President Donald Trump.
2021-01-25

India surpasses Brazil as the country with the second-most cases in the world, behind the United States. India reported 90,802 cases in the past 24 hours and 1,016 deaths, recording the single largest increase of cases in the world in almost a month.
2020-09-7

Brazil formally withdraws from the UN's Global Compact for Migration pact; however, Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo says that the country will continue to accept Venezuelan refugees.
2019-01-8

Brazil's Superior Electoral Court reopens the illegal campaign funding case against President Michel Temer, who was the vice presidential candidate on former President Dilma Rousseff's ticket in 2014. Temer became president in August 2016 when Rousseff was impeached, and could be unseated if the court annuls the Rousseff–Temer election victory.
2017-06-6

Police again fire tear gas at demonstrators participating in nationwide protests across Brazil.
2013-06-23

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff convenes a truth commission to investigate Brazil's military dictatorship.
2012-07-30

Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa attend a BRICS summit in Sanya in China's Hainan Province.
2011-04-14