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Montevideo, December 18th 2025 - 22:21 UTC

Brazil

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 10:51 UTC

    Rio Grande do Sul death toll updated to 16 due to extratropical cyclone

    “We stand firm to overcome this very sensitive moment,” Leite said

    Civil Defense from the State of Rio Grande do Sul Tuesday updated the number of casualties from last week's extratropical cyclone to 16 as more bodies were found. The State government has set up a team to search for the missing and to help those left homeless.

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 04:35 UTC

    Brazil sells 11 Embraer E-175 to Alaska Airlines and partially finances the operation

    Brazil's Development Bank (BNDES) is financing R$1.3 billion for the export of eleven Embraer E-175 commercial jets to Alaska Airlines, US fifth largest airline

    The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has granted financing of R$1.3 billion for the export of eleven Embraer E-175 commercial jets to Alaska Airlines, the fifth largest airline in the USA. The funding will cover a portion of Alaska’s investment in the aircraft purchase. Disbursements will be made in Brazilian Reais in Brazil, directly to Embraer.

  • Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

    Teenager killed in another high-school shooting in Brazil

    “This mode of violence has implanted itself in Brazil,” Dino explained

    A 16-year-old female pupil was killed Monday at the Professor Helena Kolody School in the city of Cambé in the Brazilian State of Paraná when a former student walked into the premises carrying a gun, Agencia Brasil reported citing local authorities.

  • Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    Brazil's STF sends 2014 case against Bolsonaro to lower court

    Bolsonaro is facing multiple criminal charges while being investigated in the Jan. 8 coup attempt

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Dias Toffoli Monday sent to the Federal District Court the second criminal action in which former President Jair Bolsonaro is a defendant, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Brazil: Electricity generation from sugarcane biomass on the rise

    Sugarcane biomass accounts for 72% of all installed bioelectricity capacity in Brazil

    According to a study by Brazil's Sugarcane and Bioenergy Industry Union (Unica) released Monday, electricity generation from sugarcane biomass grew 28.7% in the first four months of 2023, reaching 1,858,699 MWh, which is tantamount to 3% of all the energy in the South American country, Xinhua reported.

  • Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 08:55 UTC

    Lula off on European tour this week

    If you're a partner you must help, not impose sanctions, Lula said about France's additional clauses to the EU-Mercosur deal

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is to embark on a European tour this week to meet French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis, and other EU leaders, it was reported.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

    Six crewmembers of sunken Brazilian fishing boat rescued alive

    Searches with helicopters and military vessels are now concentrated in the area known as Coral Island<

    Six crewmembers of a fishing boat that sank off the southeastern State of Santa Catarina have been rescued alive, the Brazilian Navy said. The “BP Safadi Seif” with 8 people onboard lost contact with the port authority on Friday night relatively close to the resort town of Garopaba, it was reported.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Bolsonaro aide's phone found to contain coup plans

    It has not been proven that Bolsonaro ever saw these texts, his lawyers have argued

    The mobile telephone of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's aide-de-camp Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid was found to contain a series of WhatsApp messages with other military officers openly advocating a coup d'état after last year's elections, it was reported.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 08:09 UTC

    At least 13 killed in southeastern Brazil storm

    During the weekend, there was still the possibility of further damage such as falling trees and power poles, in addition to the destruction of houses on the coast.

    At least 13 people died and 4 others were reported missing in southeastern Brazil Sunday due to storms and floods caused by the passage of an extratropical cyclone (low-pressure system), according to local authorities.

  • Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Brazil: Haddad congratulates Congress and STF for better S&P ratings

    Haddad wants the Central Bank to lower the Selic interest rate

    Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad Wednesday said that the improved outlook by the risk rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) was due to the harmony between the branches of government, Agencia Brasil reported. In Haddad's view, National Congress and the Federal Supreme Court (STF) have an important role in the S&P's decision, but the Central Bank (BCB) needs to “join the effort” and start reducing the interest rates.