Brazil

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  All fuel prices in Brazil down, thanks to Petrobras and tax reductions

  

  A survey from Brazil's National Oil, Gas and Bio-fuels Agency, ANP, showed that the average price for a liter of gasoline in service stations across Brazil had dropped 2,77%, and this way the price is now R$ 5,25 this week, the lowest it has been since February 2021.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Brazil to become wheat self sufficient in five years, planting the grain in tropical areas

  

  Brazil will become wheat self sufficient in five years time, according to Celso Luiz Moretti, head of EMBRAPA, the Brazilian agriculture surveys and research center, which has helped the country become one of the world's leading food producer and exporter.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  German consul in Rio charged with husband's murder

  

  Germany's Consul in Rio de Janeiro Uwe Herbert Hahn has been formally indicted Monday for the August 5 murder of his husband, the Belgian national Walter Henri Maximilien Biot, in the couple's apartment.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:48 UTC

  Presidential debate in Brazil almost ends up in a fistfight

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro took center stage Sunday in a TV presidential debate featuring all candidates due to participate in the upcoming October 2 elections.

• Saturday, August 27th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Brazil estimates a grains and oilseeds 2022/23 harvest of 308 million tons

  

  Brazil's government CONAB, (National Supply Company) anticipated that the 2022/23 grains and oil seeds harvest would reach 308 million tons, given the good performance and strong international demand for corn, soybean, rice, beans and cotton.

• Friday, August 26th 2022 - 17:46 UTC

  Brazil greenlights import of vaccine, drug against monkeypox

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Thursday cleared the Health Ministry in separate but unanimous decisions to import and use the Jynneos / Imvanex vaccine and the drug Tecovirimat, both against monkeypox.

• Friday, August 26th 2022 - 17:37 UTC

  Lula calls Bolsonaro the court's jester

  

  Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Thursday admitted in a TV interview that there were cases of corruption during his consecutive terms as President of Brazil (2003-2010).

• Friday, August 26th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  Russia replacing Brazil as one of China's main oil suppliers

  

  Russia has become China's main oil supplier for the third month running during July, according to information from Hong Kong market analysts. Apparently independent refiners stepped up purchases of discounted supplies while cutting shipments from rival suppliers such as Angola and Brazil.

• Thursday, August 25th 2022 - 19:26 UTC

  Voters carrying cell phones into booths may be arrested, Brazil's TSE rules

  

  Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Thursday issued a plenum ruling banning the use of cell phones within voting booths in the October presidential elections, even if the device is turned off.

• Thursday, August 25th 2022 - 10:38 UTC

  Brazilian presidential election: opinion polls show Bolsonaro closing in on Lula, but still not enough

  

  The poll from Instituto Parana Pesquisa was released 24 August and compared to the previous one from August second, the difference which stood at 5,5 percentage points has now fallen to 4,7 percentage points.