Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has unveiled a pilot plan to expand the federal government's role in fighting organized crime in Rio de Janeiro.
A new report by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute has found that gold mining poses a significant threat to Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has unsealed an investigation into a film about former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazilian presidential candidate Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro is under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion for receiving millions of dollars from a disgraced banker to finance a movie about his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed measures to lower fuel prices, just weeks before the presidential election.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has plunged further into an institutional crisis, as two of its best known justices are now requesting major sanctions against each other.
Brazil’s government and exporters of meat, poultry, eggs, honey and other animal products were scrambling Thursday after a European Union deadline passed for suspending imports over concerns about the use of antibiotics and antimicrobial drugs in livestock.
Brazil’s Senate has approved a bill to regulate the exploration of critical minerals, including rare earths, marking a step toward exploiting its vast reserves.
Brazil’s top electoral court has set new standards for identifying AI-generated deepfakes in political ads.
Brazil’s government said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit in a federal court against Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, seeking damages of 500 million reais (about $97 million) for the company’s alleged failure in protecting children online.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says his government has triggered an economic reciprocity law against U.S. tariffs.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld state laws denying tax incentives to farmers who adhered to the country's soy moratorium.
Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities.
The Trump administration has revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to the United States in retaliation for Brazil’s denial of visas last month for two American diplomats who sought to visit ahead of October elections.
The United States is imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil after finding a range of what it deemed unfair trade practices by the world’s 10th-biggest economy.
Hundreds of bus drivers on strike protested in downtown Rio de Janeiro, demanding increased pay, better conditions and an end to the six-day working week.
World leaders and Venezuela related celebrities are reacting with offers and solidarity after two powerful earthquakes shook the South American nation on Wednesday, killing at least 164 people, injuring more than 1,000 and trapping many beneath collapsed buildings.
Abelardo de la Espriella, set to be Colombia’s president, has intensified debate over the future of the Amazon.
The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable’’ and that “burden or restrict U.S. commerce.
The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics.
Brazil was set to join other Latin American countries that have shortened working hours as the lower house approved a constitutional amendment establishing a 40-hour, five-day workweek.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed two decrees on Wednesday to add pressure on big tech companies by making them liable for illegal content shared by its users and opening way for investigations through a government body on their response to such cases.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to discuss organized crime and tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Brazil’s finance minister.
President Donald Trump will host Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday for talks about shared economic and security issues.
Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.
Russia's Defense Ministry has declared a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine to mark Victory Day, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The long-awaited trade deal between the South American bloc Mercosur and the European Union is finally on, at least provisionally.
Brazil’s Congress has voted to override a presidential veto and reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence.
Brazil’s Senate dealt a political blow to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday by rejecting his appointee to the Supreme Court, the first in more than 130 years.
The Russian Defense Ministry says the traditional Victory Day parade will take place without military equipment.
Brazil’s Vice President Geraldo Alckmin says the trade deal between South American bloc Mercosur and the European Union offers some solace at a time when unilateral moves have dominated the geopolitical landscape.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has started a two-day visit to Spain on Friday when he and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez met a day before they will gather with other leaders who are concerned with the fate of the democratic order and the rise of the populist far right.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday he favors a national ban on online betting platforms, whose revenues in the South American nation are estimated in more than $4 billion per year, one of the biggest markets in the world.
Exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is reshaping life in Oiapoque, a small city in the poor state of Amapa that is receiving thousand of migrants looking for work.
Exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are reshaping life in Oiapoque, a small city in the poor state of Amapa that is receiving thousand of migrants looking for work.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will once again have his past rival and current Vice President Geraldo Alckmin as his running mate for his reelection bid.
Paraguay has ratified the Mercosur and European Union free trade deal to complete South America’s approval of a huge new trade zone.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s kidney function has improved but he will remain in an intensive care unit because of pneumonia.
A private Indian university has been booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi after one of its staffers displayed a a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university’s own innovation.
Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.
The U.S. capture and ouster of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro marked a stunning culmination of the Trump administration’s efforts to assert dominance in Latin America.
The European Commission says the European Union is delaying a massive free-trade deal with South American countries after fiery protests by farmers and last-minute opposition by France and Italy.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has told a judge Sunday he violated his ankle monitor due to a nervous breakdown and hallucinations.
For years, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, along with many climate experts, had high hopes for the U.N. climate talks that just finished in Brazil.
Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro is preparing to serve a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup.
United Nations climate talks in Brazil have reached a subdued agreement to deliver more money to countries hit hardest by climate change to help them adapt to the wrath of extreme weather.
Brazil's Vice President Geraldo Alckmin says U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to remove additional import tariffs on some Brazilian agribusiness products marks significant progress.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia says she is resigning from Congress in January.
Fire disrupted United Nations climate talks with just two scheduled days left and negotiators yet to announce any major agreements.
The return of Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to UN climate talks was hoped to spur nations to meet a self-imposed early deadline for progress on tough issues.
Brazilian authorities have raged against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.
United Nations climate talks are bubbling to a critical point, with host Brazil pressing negotiators to make progress on key issues.
At the halfway point of annual United Nations climate negotiations in Brazil, it appears the talks may do more than just focus on implementing past promises, as some observers had expected.
Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference Friday to send Japan a message: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
European, Latin American, and Caribbean nations have started a two-day summit in Colombia to strengthen ties.
Most justices on Brazil's Supreme Court panel have rejected former President Jair Bolsonaro’s appeal.
Brazil has unveiled long-awaited details about a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it had already drawn $5.5 billion in financial pledges.
World leaders gathering the in Brazil's Amazon rainforest for the U.N.‘s annual climate summit warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive action to prevent the worst effects of climate change.
Ten years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the Indigenous Krenak people are still mourning what they call “the death of the river.”.
Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a major fund that will pay countries to keep their forests standing.
Hundreds of protesters have marched through Vila Cruzeiro favela, demanding the resignation of Rio de Janeiro state Gov. Cláudio Castro.
A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead is drawing protests for excessive force and calls for the Rio de Janeiro’s governor to resign.
Lawyers for Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro have filed an appeal to reduce his prison sentence for attempting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has met with the heavily prosecuted vice president of Equatorial Guinea in Washington after the Trump administration approved a waiver of corruption sanctions.
Brazil’s president said he was as surprised as U.S. President Donald Trump when they met by chance and “there was some chemistry,” given the deteriorating relations between the two largest economies in the Americas.
Brazil's President Lula da Silva used his speech at the United Nations General Assembly to criticize unilateral moves by U.S. President Donald Trump.
