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As Amazon burns, Brazil’s Bolsonaro tells rest of world not to interfere (V)

Reuters News ServiceAugust 23, 2019

By Reuters News ServiceAugust 23, 20190498

Amid growing international criticism over the wildfires raging through the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday admitted farmers could be illegally setting the rainforest ablaze...

Copa America

Thiago Silva says Brazil want to forget Mineirao 7-1 humiliation

Press AssociationJuly 2, 2019

By Press AssociationJuly 2, 2019091

Thiago Silva insists Brazil must forget about their World Cup humiliation ahead of their return to Mineirao. Tite’s side face Argentina in their Copa America...

Americas

At least 40 inmates strangled to death in Amazon prison gang clashes

Reuters News ServiceMay 28, 2019May 28, 2019

By Reuters News ServiceMay 28, 2019May 28, 20190388

SAO PAULO, May 27 (Reuters) – At least 40 prisoners in Brazil were found strangled to death on Monday in four jails in the Amazon...

Americas

Hundreds missing after Vale dam burst at Brazil mine, seven bodies found

Reuters News ServiceJanuary 26, 2019January 26, 2019

By Reuters News ServiceJanuary 26, 2019January 26, 20190107

By Anthony Boadle and Marta Nogueira BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Brazilian rescuers were searching for some 200 missing people after a tailings...

Cyprus

Brazilian honour for Consul Keheyan

Staff ReporterJanuary 11, 2019January 11, 2019

By Staff ReporterJanuary 11, 2019January 11, 2019062

The Order of Rio Branco was bestowed upon Garo Keheyan, Honorary Consul of Brazil in Cyprus, on the 26th November, 2018, in recognition and appreciation...

Opinion

Climate: some progress in Poland

Gwynne DyerDecember 23, 2018December 23, 2018

By Gwynne DyerDecember 23, 2018December 23, 2018029

By Gwynne Dyer Global warming is physics and chemistry, and you can’t negotiate with science for more time to solve the problem: more emissions mean...

Americas

Far right, ex-military officer wins Brazil vote, faces leftist in runoff

Reuters News ServiceOctober 8, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 8, 2018027

Far-right Congressman and former Army captain Jair Bolsonaro won nearly half the votes in Brazil’s first-round presidential election on Sunday, as voters’ anger at corruption...

World

Far-right candidate Bolsonaro widens lead in Brazilian presidential race -poll

Reuters News ServiceSeptember 20, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceSeptember 20, 2018037

Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro gained ground over his rivals in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election set for Oct. 7, a new poll showed...

Americas

Brazil election in turmoil after front runner stabbed (Update)

Reuters News ServiceSeptember 7, 2018September 7, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceSeptember 7, 2018September 7, 2018031

The run-up to a presidential election in Brazil was plunged into chaos on Friday after a knife attack on far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro put the...

Americas

Brazil mourns museum blaze, seeks answers to ‘tragedy foretold’

Reuters News ServiceSeptember 3, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceSeptember 3, 2018036

Brazil on Monday mourned a fire that destroyed its National Museum, a cherished historical repository that lacked a sprinkler system and was reeling from years...

World Cup

Neymar histrionics risk making him his own worst enemy

Reuters News ServiceJune 22, 2018June 22, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceJune 22, 2018June 22, 2018126

As Brazil forward Neymar broke down and wept uncontrollably on the pitch at the end of his team’s hard-fought 2-0 win over Costa Rica on...

Americas

Car plows through Copacabana sidewalk, kills baby, injures 15

Reuters News ServiceJanuary 19, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceJanuary 19, 2018024

A speeding car plowed through evening strollers on a crowded sidewalk of Rio’s famed Copacabana beach on Thursday in an apparent accident, killing an 8-month...

Formula 1

Mercedes F1 team members robbed at gunpoint in Brazil

Reuters News ServiceNovember 11, 2017

By Reuters News ServiceNovember 11, 2017150

Armed robbers held up a Mercedes Formula One team minibus outside the Brazilian Grand Prix circuit in Sao Paulo on Friday night but nobody was...

Americas

Brazil protesters, police clash in first general strike in years

Reuters News ServiceApril 29, 2017

By Reuters News ServiceApril 29, 2017038

By Brad Brooks and Anthony Boadle Brazilian protesters torched buses, clashed with police in several cities and marched on President Michel Temer’s Sao Paulo residence...

Health

EU, China cut imports of Brazil meat amid scandal

Reuters News ServiceMarch 21, 2017

By Reuters News ServiceMarch 21, 2017048

By Brad Brooks and Dominique Patton China and the European Union curtailed meat imports from Brazil on Monday after police, in an anti-corruption probe criticized...

Americas

At least 33 prisoners killed in new Brazil prison uprising

Reuters News ServiceJanuary 6, 2017January 6, 2017

By Reuters News ServiceJanuary 6, 2017January 6, 20175 93

By Pedro Fonseca At last 33 inmates have been killed in a new prison riot in the Amazon region of Brazil, officials said on Friday,...

World

Bolivia suspends airline as Colombian crash probe points to lack of fuel (Update)

Reuters News ServiceDecember 1, 2016December 1, 2016

By Reuters News ServiceDecember 1, 2016December 1, 2016135

Bolivian authorities on Thursday suspended the license of a tiny charter airline whose plane crashed in Colombia this week after apparently running out of fuel,...

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Plane in Colombia crash was running out of fuel

Reuters News ServiceNovember 30, 2016November 30, 2016

By Reuters News ServiceNovember 30, 2016November 30, 2016134

The pilot of a plane that crashed in Colombia virtually wiping out a Brazilian football team had radioed he was running out of fuel and...

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Plane carrying Brazil’s Chapecoense football team crashes in Colombia, 76 dead

Reuters News ServiceNovember 30, 2016November 30, 2016

By Reuters News ServiceNovember 30, 2016November 30, 20163 51

Brazilian football team Chapecoense, heading for the biggest game in their history, were on board a plane that crashed into Colombian jungle, killing 76 people,...

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