
Brazil's Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, stated on Friday that France was attempting to delay the signing of the long-negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).
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Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes and his wife -lawyer Viviane Barci de Moraes- have been removed from the list of individuals sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act, it was announced in Washington on Friday. In addition, the Lex Institute, linked to the judge's family, and its members were also suppressed from the infamous roll carried by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) under the US Department of the Treasury.
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Around 1,000 police officers from the Military and Civil Police forces of Rio de Janeiro were deployed on Thursday in the Complejo do Salgueiro favelas in São Gonçalo to chase leaders of the Comando Vermelho (CV), one of Brazil's largest and most influential criminal organizations.
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Millions were left without power, and air traffic around the airports of Congonhas and Guarulhos became chaotic after a massive blackout hit São Paulo for more than 24 hours following a severe extratropical cyclone that swept through the metropolitan area.
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The Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of Brazil's Central Bank (BCB) unanimously decided on Wednesday to keep the economy's base interest rate known as Selic at 15% per annum, in accordiance with market expectations, given the current declining inflation and economic slowdown.
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Heavy rainfall triggered by an extratropical cyclone battering Southern Brazil caused widespread flooding on Tuesday, turning streets into rivers and hillsides into waterfalls across Florianópolis, São José, Palhoça, and Biguaçu.
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A Datafolha poll released this weekend showed that incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would beat Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, -a son of the incarcerated former President Jair Bolsonaro- by at least 15 percentage points in a potential runoff: 51% to 36%.
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Brazil's economy expanded by 0.1% in the third quarter of 2025 compared with the previous quarter. Year-on-year, Brazil's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) —the measure of the total value of goods and services produced in the country—rose by 1.8%. Over the past four quarters, GDP registered cumulative growth of 2.7%, according to a Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) report released this week.
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Buenos Aires Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas ruled Wednesday to extradite five Brazilian nationals who were convicted for their roles in the January 8, 2023, attacks on Brazil's government headquarters.

Brazilian authorities have completed negotiations with the Philippines, Guatemala, and Nicaragua to expand agricultural exports to these countries after reaching an understanding on sanitary and phytosanitary requirements.