Brazil’s Federal Police have conducted raids targeting a criminal group it alleges has laundered at least 3.1 metric tons of gold illegally mined in the Amazon rainforest to conceal its origins
September 10, 2024The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil has divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians had difficulty and doubts about navigating other social media in its absence
August 31, 2024
The governor of Brazil’s Tocantins northern state has denied any wrongdoing, hours after the country’s federal police carried out search warrants targeting him and other 41 people as part of an investigation into alleged fraud and graft related to COVID-19 funds
August 21, 2024The Brazilian government has apologized to the Japanese community for human rights violations in the persecution and incarceration of immigrants in the years after World War II
July 25, 2024
Health officials in Brazil say the first two deaths from waterborne bacterial disease have been reported in the country's south, where floodwaters are slowly receding
May 22, 2024
The civil defense agency in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul says heavy rains have killed 39 people, with another 68 still missing
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