Brazil

• Thursday, November 24th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Bolsonaro's party officially questions outcome of elections

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's Liberal Party (PL) called for a partial annulment of the Oct. 30 elections whereby the opposition candidate and former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT)was chosen to return to the Planalto Palace on Jan. 1.

• Thursday, November 24th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Brazilian pop musician Erasmo Carlos dies aged 81

  

  Brazilian pop and rock music legend Erasmo Carlos has died at a Rio de Janeiro hospital where he had been admitted a day earlier for breathing complications. He was 81.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2022 - 18:30 UTC

  Brazil back to mandatory facemasks on airplanes and at airports

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Wednesday approved the return effective Nov. 25 of the mandatory use of face masks in airplanes and airports in a move to reduce the risk of COVID-19 contagion after a significant increase in the number of cases in recent weeks.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 21:24 UTC

  Brazilian experts: Vaccination saved 63,000 in 2021 from COVID-19

  

  Scientists in Brazil said this week that vaccination against COVID-19 had saved the lives of 63,000 of the country's population over 60 years of age, in addition to preventing some 178,000 hospitalizations of people over 60 years in 2021.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Cuban music legend Pablo Milanés dies aged 79

  

  Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés died Monday in Madrid, after being hospitalized for a series of cancer-related infections. He was 79.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Brazil encouraged with UK larger quota for chicken meat and sugar

  

  Brazil is forecasted to gain a 19.3% larger quota of chicken meat exports to the UK in accordance with the bilateral agreement signed last November 17 at the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to information from the financial press agency Valor.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Lula back home from larynx surgery

  

  Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the Hospital Sírio Libanês in São Paulo after undergoing larynx surgery Sunday for a lesion in his left vocal cord.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 10:44 UTC

  Goldfajn chosen new IDB boss

  

  Brazil's Ilan Goldfajn was elected Sunday as the new head of the Interamerican Development Bank (BID), it was reported in Washington DC.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Brazilian 2022 exports of soybean estimated to reach 78 million tons, and corn some 40 million tons

  

  Brazil’s soybean exports are expected to reach 78 million tons this year, 9.3% down from 86.3 million tons in 2021, according to the grain exporters’ association Anec. But the figure is 2.5 million tons higher than the previous 75.5 million tons estimate for full-year soybean shipments.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Brazil a leading power in digitalization of public services, World Bank says

  

  A World Bank study released Sunday in Brasilia showed the largest South American country was second globally among 198 economies in the digitalization of public service structures.