Brazil

• Saturday, September 12th 2020 - 10:29 UTC

  Brazil's services activity in July rises but still 11,9% down from a year ago

  

  Services activity in Brazil rose in July for a second straight month, figures showed on Friday, but the pace of growth was slower than forecast, suggesting the economy's rebound from the worst of the COVID-19 may not be quite so entrenched.

• Saturday, September 12th 2020 - 10:24 UTC

  The Brazilian state of Bahia signs deal for Russia's vaccine against Covid-19

  

  The Brazilian state of Bahia has signed an agreement to conduct Phase III clinical trials of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and plans to buy 50 million doses to market in Brazil, officials have said.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazilian prosecution investigating Petrobras forex transactions between 2008 and 2011

  

  Brazil’s federal police were serving 25 search warrants as part of an investigation regarding foreign-exchange transactions done by oil company Petrobras between 2008 and 2011, according to a statement from federal prosecutors on Thursday.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Brazil opens to tariff free rice, following price complaints from consumers

  

  Brazil’s Executive Secretary of the Foreign Trade Board, “CAMEX,” voted on Wednesday to provide duty-free access for up to 400,000 tons of paddy and milled rice from all origins, effective this week through December 31, 2020. The measure was officially published in Brazil’s Official Gazette of the Federal Government and responds to growing consumer complaints about the retail price of rice, which with beans are staple for a majority of Brazilians.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  It's official: Brazil's 2019/20 grains and oil harvest was a record 258 million tons

  

  Brazil's 2019-20 grains and oilseeds harvest reached a 258mn t record as total acreage increased and yields performed well, despite some unfavorable weather conditions throughout the year.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  Brazil's top prosecutor keeps active anti corruption task force that jailed ex-president Lula da Silva

  

  The office of Brazil’s top prosecutor has decided to keep the country’s famed Car Wash anti-corruption task force active through Jan. 31, it said in a statement on Wednesday, in an at least temporary victory for the embattled group of prosecutors.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Head of Brazilian Army intelligence apparently dies of coronavirus

  

  The head of Brazil's Army Intelligence Center (CIE), Gen. Carlos Sydriao, has apparently died from the coronavirus after 10 days of hospitalization.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  Brazil's supermarkets “committed” to lowering food prices announced Bolsonaro

  

  Brazil’s supermarkets are “committed” to lowering the prices of basic foodstuffs, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday, hours after the Justice Ministry said it would ask supermarkets to explain recent price increases for some products.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil Health minister announces the Covid-19 vaccine for next January

  

  Brazil's acting Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Tuesday that a Covid-19 vaccine would be rolled out for all Brazilians in January 2021.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  NASA pictures show the world's largest wetland lost to fires sweeping across Brazil

  

  A record amount of the world's largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires sweeping Brazil this year, scientists said, devastating a delicate ecosystem that is one of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet.