Will Brazilians follow wider Latin American trend?
“Flávio Bolsonaro is Trump’s candidate and what Trump wants is to colonise Brazil, take our riches, steal our future and leave us in the dust,” claims the latest ...
Bolsonaro, Lula statistically tied in simulated Brazil runoff, Atlas/Bloomberg poll shows
Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are statistically tied in a simulated runoff ahead of next month’s election, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on ...
Brazil election rivals offer competing cures for high long-term interest rates
Brazil’s presidential campaigns are clashing over how to bring down long-term interest rates, with advisers to the leading candidates offering sharply different prescriptions for reducing borrowing costs across the ...
At least 23 die as bus and truck collide in Brazil’s Parana, police say
At least 23 people died in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the BR-373 highway in Brazil’s southern state of Parana in the early hours of ...
Cafu backs Ancelotti rebuild but says Brazil must remember how to play
Brazil’s World Cup wound is open again and, for Cafu, the cure will not be found only in tactics, systems or another forensic search for scapegoats. It may begin ...
Brazil face Haaland and Norway hoodoo in World Cup last 16
Brazil have spent decades collecting World Cup wins like precious stones but on Sunday in New Jersey they run into opponents who stubbornly refuse to join the pile – Norway.
The ...
Neymar has two months to show he is ready for World Cup, says Ancelotti
Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti has left open the possibility of Neymar earning a place in his 26‑man squad for this year’s World Cup, saying the forward has two months ...
Brazil’s jailed ex-president Bolsonaro hospitalised in ICU with pneumonia
Brazil’s imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalised in an intensive care unit on Friday after being diagnosed with bronchopneumonia, according to a medical note from the DF Star ...
European allies working on plan should US move on Greenland
Allies including France and Germany are working closely on a plan on how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, as Europe seeks ...
Ousted Maduro pleads not guilty to US narcotics charges
Toppled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of narco-terrorism after President Donald Trump’s stunning capture of him rattled world leaders and left officials in ...
Brazil says US crossed ‘unacceptable line’ over military strikes on Venezuela
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday condemned the U.S. military attack on neighbor Venezuela and the capture of his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, saying it ...
Brazil’s Supreme Court votes to affirm Indigenous land rights in defiance of Congress
A majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court reaffirmed protections to Indigenous land rights on Wednesday, curbing attempts by Congress to limit the recognition of reservations in a ruling likely to ...
Brazil lawmakers vote to cut Bolsonaro’s jail term after chaotic session
Brazilian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to shorten the prison sentence of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, although the bill is likely to face resistance from senators, the Supreme Court and ...
World secures compromise deal at COP30 that sidesteps fossil fuels
World governments agreed on Saturday to a compromise climate deal at the COP30 conference in Brazil that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omit any ...
Brazil’s ex-president Bolsonaro detained by police ahead of vigil
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday before a planned supporters’ vigil near his home, ending months of house arrest as he appeals a ...
Fire disrupts COP30 climate talks as UN chief urges deal
Talks at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil were disrupted on Thursday after a fire broke out in the venue, triggering an evacuation just as negotiators were hunkering down to ...
COP30 passes mid-point
COP30 reached mid-point during the weekend, but despite the positive spin by the hosts Brazil, real progress made so far is limited. Even though more progress is likely this week, ...
COP30 stews over fossil fuels and final deal as Indigenous fight for forest
UN climate talks were nearing a midway point on Friday, with countries still wrangling over which issues they might be able to rally around in a final summit deal – and ...
COP30 makes a subdued start
COP30 has started at Belem in Brazil, but with low expectations. Not only under President Trump the US has pulled out of the Paris Agreement – starting January – but his administration ...
COP30 events will be safe, Brazil official says after Rio violence
Events next week in Rio and other Brazilian cities linked to the COP30 climate summit will be safe for visitors, a Brazilian ministry official said, seeking to reassure attendees after ...
Corpses line Rio street, pushing death toll from police raids to 132
The deadliest police operation in Brazil’s history killed at least 132 people, officials said on Wednesday, after Rio de Janeiro residents lined a street with dozens of corpses collected overnight, ...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to ...
Brazil carries out raids in crackdown on organised crime in the fuel sector
Brazilian police and tax officials carried out a series of raids early on Thursday across the country targeting multibillion-dollar money laundering and fraud schemes linked to organised crime in the ...
Lula rejects ‘humiliation’ of calling Trump over US-Brazil tariff
As US tariffs on Brazilian goods jumped to 50 per cent on Wednesday, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Reuters in an interview that he saw no room ...