Brazil

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  Brazilian municipal runoffs in 57 cities with plenty of “wild west” shooting and killings in campaigns

  

  Brazilians return to the polls in 57 cities on Sunday for the runoffs of municipal elections that have seen surging violence involving assassinations and physical attacks on candidates.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Major sanitary data leak in Brazil: personal records of 16 million patients infected with Covid-19 exposed

  

  Personal details of millions of Brazilians infected with Covid-19 have been exposed after passwords to systems from the Ministry of Health (MoH) were openly published online, it has been revealed.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  Europol busts Brazilian/European drug trafficking network: 52 tons of cocaine

  

  Forty-five people have been arrested in a major international operation against a drug-trafficking network between Brazil and Europe, Europol announced on Friday. The European police agency also revealed that more than 52 tons of cocaine were also seized by law enforcement agencies.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Record unemployment in Brazil, 14,4% and underemployment, 30,3%

  

  The number of registered Brazilians out of work and the national unemployment rate rose to the highest on record, official figures showed on Friday, as the easing of COVID-19 lockdown measures encouraged people to look for work again.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Producer inflation in Brazil rose 3,4% in October and 19,1% in twelve months

  

  Producer price inflation in Brazil jumped to its highest on record in October, figures showed on Thursday, led by another month of rising food prices, which will likely stir the debate further on the wider outlook for inflation and interest rates.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro said he will refuse vaccination against Covid-19: “it's my right”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he would refuse a coronavirus vaccine, the most recent of his vaccine-skeptic statements. “I'm telling you, I'm not going to take it. It's my right,” he said in remarks aired over several social media platforms.

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Beijing accused Eduardo Bolsonaro of harming relations between Brazil and China

  

  China’s embassy in Brazil said a son of President Jair Bolsonaro had harmed relations between the two countries with critical comments about telecommunications equipment firm Huawei.

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Consumer confidence in Brazil fell in November: concern over Covid-19 and end of emergency transfers

  

  Consumer confidence in Brazil fell in November for the second month in a row, a survey showed on Wednesday, reflecting growing concern over the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy, and the looming end of emergency government income transfers.

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Brazil renews wheat import quota free of tariff, from outside Mercosur

  

  Brazil's Chamber of Foreign Trade (Camex) has renewed the import quota of 750,000 tons of wheat from outside Mercosur and exempt of the Common External Tariff (TEC) currently at 10%. Purchases can be made from Novr 18 this year to November 17, 2021.

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  At least 41 people killed in a crash of a bus and a truck in Sao Paulo

  

  At least 41 people were killed and 10 injured on Wednesday when a bus and a truck crashed in southeastern Brazil, police said. The bus, which was carrying employees on their way to work at a textile factory, collided with the truck just before 7 am on a motorway outside the town of Taguai, in Sao Paulo state, police said.