Brazil

A fire fighter tries to put out fire in a sugar cane plantation near Dumon city, Brazil, August 24, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joel Silva
Climate Change

Wildfires affecting 30 cities in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, leave 2 dead

The Sao Paulo state government has created an emergency committee to handle the fires, which had also blocked some 15 highways either fully or partially

Volunteer firefighter members of the Alto Pantanal Brigade are seen on a tractor as they work to extinguish a fire rising in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, June 14, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo
Environment

Wildfires affecting 30 cities in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, leave 2 dead

A person shows passports from Brazil that were found on the banks of the Rio Bravo River, on the border between the US and Mexico, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico September 19, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo
World+Biz

Brazil to tighten entry rules to curb migration to North America

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
World+Biz

X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

Brazil's then Minister of Justice and Public Security Anderson Torres walks on the day of a news conference at Headquarters of the Federal Highway Police in Brasilia, Brazil, Brazil October 28, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
Politics

Brazil ex-minister formally accused of blocking voters in 2022 election

A drone shot shows a cargo plane at the flooded Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, May 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Wesley Santos/File Photo
World+Biz

Brazil's Porto Alegre airport to resume operations after major floods

Members of Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade work to extinguish a fire rising in Amazon rainforest in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado
World+Biz

Brazil fire brigades fight Amazon blazes off to torrid start in 2024

This frame grab from video shows wreckage from a plane that crashed by a home in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Aug. 9, 2024. (Felipe Magalhaes Filho via The Associated Press)
World+Biz

Passenger plane crashes in Brazil, killing all 61 onboard

Brazilian Sharpnose Sharks (Rhizoprionodon Lalandii) are being analysed at a laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in this handout picture made available on July 23, 2024. Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Sharks off Rio de Janeiro test positive for cocaine

Representational image. Photo: Collected
Offbeat

Brazilian drug lord arrested after wife's Instagram post gives away location

Thawanny Silva de Souza, 6, (L) and Rafael Silva de Souza, 9, (R) eat a lunch of rice, beans and egg in their family's house, in the Arco Iris favela in Recife, Brazil, September 15, 2022/File Photo
World+Biz

Brazil sees over 100 countries joining alliance against hunger, minister says

Sketch: TBS
Bangladesh

PM Hasina scheduled to pay official visits to Spain, Brazil this month

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a news conference, in Montevideo, Uruguay, January 25, 2023. File Photo: REUTERS/Mariana Greif
Politics

Brazil's president blasts decision by Argentine counterpart to skip trade meetings