Pele is depressed, reclusive due to health issues, says son
Brazilian soccer great Pele is depressed over his poor health and reluctant to leave the house because he cannot walk unaided, his son Edinho said in an...
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As Amazon burns, Brazil’s Bolsonaro tells rest of world not to interfere (V)
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...
Thiago Silva says Brazil want to forget Mineirao 7-1 humiliation
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...
At least 40 inmates strangled to death in Amazon prison gang clashes
SAO PAULO, May 27 (Reuters) – At least 40 prisoners in Brazil were found strangled to death on Monday in four jails in the Amazon...
Hundreds missing after Vale dam burst at Brazil mine, seven bodies found
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...
Brazilian honour for Consul Keheyan
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...
Climate: some progress in Poland
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...
Far right, ex-military officer wins Brazil vote, faces leftist in runoff
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...
Far-right candidate Bolsonaro widens lead in Brazilian presidential race -poll
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...
Brazil election in turmoil after front runner stabbed (Update)
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...
Brazil mourns museum blaze, seeks answers to ‘tragedy foretold’
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...
Neymar histrionics risk making him his own worst enemy
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...
Car plows through Copacabana sidewalk, kills baby, injures 15
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...
Mercedes F1 team members robbed at gunpoint in Brazil
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...
Brazil protesters, police clash in first general strike in years
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...
EU, China cut imports of Brazil meat amid scandal
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...
At least 33 prisoners killed in new Brazil prison uprising
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,...
Bolivia suspends airline as Colombian crash probe points to lack of fuel (Update)
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,...
Plane in Colombia crash was running out of fuel
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...
Plane carrying Brazil’s Chapecoense football team crashes in Colombia, 76 dead
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,...
