BRASILIA – Brazil lost 4.9 million formal and informal jobs between February and April, during the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, increasing the unemployment rate from 11.3% to 12.6% in just three months, the Institute […]
SAO PAULO – Brazil became the world No 2 hotspot for coronavirus cases on Saturday, second only to the United States, after it confirmed that 347,398 people had been infected by the virus, overtaking Russia. […]
São Paulo – Fines for illegal logging in the Amazon in Brazil have been effectively suspended since October 2019 under a Bolsonaro administration decree, Human Rights Watch said in a statement. Federal enforcement agents have […]
BRASILIA – Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes. Images of fires purportedly devouring sections […]
SAO PAULO – Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year, according to new data from the country’s space research agency. The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) said its satellite […]
On Wednesday morning, the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was discharged after having spent 17 days in the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo. The President had entered the premises to undergo an operation due […]
BRASILIA – Brazil’s government will announce the privatization of southern airports, including Curitiba, in the second quarter of this year, according to Adalberto Vasconcelos, head of the PPI government program tasked with luring private investment […]
BUENOS AIRES – A Latam Brasil Airbus A320-200 which was set for Santiago, Chile made an emergency landing in Argentina due to a severe hailstorm. Only 80 minutes into its flight after took off from […]
SAO PAULO – Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who was stabbed during a political rally over a week ago and has since been under intensive care in the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo, had […]
SAO PAULO – The health of Brazil’s far-right leading and poll-leading presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was markedly improved after he was stabbed last week at a campaign rally, the hospital where he is being treated […]
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