Brazil

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

Video shared on social media showed the ATR-72 aircraft spinning out of control as it plunged down behind a cluster of trees near houses, followed by a large plume of black smoke

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

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reacts after meeting with Brazilian citizens, who were repatriated from the Gaza Strip, upon arrival at the Air Force base of Brasilia, Brazil November 13, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo
Global Economy

Brazil adopts free trade with Palestinian Authority in show of support

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro attends the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), in Balneario Camboriu, Santa Catarina state, Brazil July 6, 2024. Phto: REUTERS/Anderson Coelho
Politics

Brazil's Bolsonaro hopes for Trump return at right-wing rally

Brazil's Bolsonaro faces possible charges in Saudi jewel scandal
World+Biz

Brazil's Bolsonaro faces possible charges in Saudi jewel scandal

Burnt trees and vegetation in the Pantanal. Photography by Amanda Perobelli/Reuters
Environment

Wildfires threaten world's largest tropical wetland in Brazil’s Pantanal

Smoke rises into the air from the fire that is reflected on the Paraguay River in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, June 11, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
Environment

Fires in Brazil Pantanal wetlands surge to record start in 2024

Cars of ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation) and IBAMA (Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) are seen near a fire in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil November 21, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo
World+Biz

Fires in Brazilian wetlands surge 980%, extreme drought expected

A drone view shows vehicles partially underwater in a courtyard of the State Traffic Department during floods in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 13, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo
Environment

Climate change made devastating Brazil floods twice as likely, scientists say