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Brazil

  • Saturday, August 10th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Passenger misses doomed Voepass flight for drinking coffee

    “He was doing his job and he saved my life,” the survivor told a local TV crew )TV snapshot)

    Passenger Adriano Assis got delayed drinking coffee and missed the boarding call for the Voepass Linhas Aereas flight that plunged to the ground some 89 kilometers from its final destination at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport. Hence, the total number of casualties was corrected to 61 (57 passengers and 4 crew members) instead of 62.

  • Saturday, August 10th 2024 - 10:22 UTC

    Elderly woman given 17 year jail sentence in Brasilia's Jan. 8 riot trial

    The defendant said she was to take down De Moraes during the uprising. He was among the ones who voted to keep her in jail for 17 years

    Maria de Fátima Mendonça Jacinto Souza, aged 67 and better known as Fátima de Tubarão, was sentenced Friday to 17 years in prison by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for her involvement in the Jan. 8, 2023, riots at the Three Powers Square in Brasília (DF). The sentence was announced Friday after an STF virtual plenary session.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 21:10 UTC

    Brazilian airliner falls with 62 people on board

    The French-built aircraft was bound for Guarulhos International Airport

    An ATR-72 twin turboprop of Voepass Linhas Aéreas crashed Friday in the Sao Paulo State residential area of Vinhedo while approaching Guarulhos International Airport. None of the total 62 people (58 passengers and four crew members) on board is believed to have survived.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 22:11 UTC

    Brazil expels Nicaraguan ambassador in reciprocity for Managua's gesture

    Ortega never replied to Lula's requests for direct talks regarding an incarcerated clergyman

    The Brazilian Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Thursday expelled Nicaragua's Ambassador Fulvia Patricia Castro Matus from Brasilia in retaliation for Managua's decision to send Breno Dias da Costa home for failing to show up at the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution on July 19, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentine breeders in UK tour of meat and dairy technology centres

    The Palermo agriculture and livestock expo where the best of Argentine breeds compete for the top prizes, and is also an opportunity for the display of new technologies and farming practices

    June, July, August are months of the austral winter and Argentina, southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay hold their main livestock shows, (Palermo, Esteio, Roque Alonso and Prado) including a display of the latest technology advances in cattle feeding and breeding.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 09:24 UTC

    Brazil records US$ 7.6 bi trade surplus in July

    Sales to Argentina continued to drop as a result of the latter's seemingly endless crisis

    Given that sales abroad reached an all-time high of US$ 30.9 billion in July, Brazil recorded a foreign trade surplus of US$ 7.6 billion, according to data released Tuesday by the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services, which represented a 6.6% drop from the US$ 8.2 billion surplus in July 2023, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 19:17 UTC

    Brazil: Over 5,000 deaths from dengue fever reported in 2024

    The State of São Paulo accounted for most of the proven cases of dengue

    Brazilian authorities issued a bulletin attesting to 5,008 deaths due to dengue fever so far this year, Agencia Brasil reported. The total number was around fourfold that of the same period last year when 1,179 casualties were recorded. In addition, 2,137 deaths are still under investigation to determine whether they were caused by dengue.

  • Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 18:11 UTC

    Brazil's 2024/25 soy crop could reach 165 million

    Next season Brazil is anticipated to plant soybeans on 46.53 million hectares, up from 46.16 million hectares in the last cycle.

    Next mid September Brazil begins sowing the 2024/25 soybean harvest expected to reach a record harvest of 165 million tons, and export forecasts of 102 million tons, according to the agribusiness consultancy Stone X.

  • Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 09:00 UTC

    Lula lays the foundation stone of Chile's Space Center

    “There is no activity today that does not require space infrastructure,” Lula underlined

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Chile's planned Space Center at the Cerrillos Air Base in Santiago during a ceremony also attended by his local colleague Gabriel Boric Font. The two countries also signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Space Activities for Peaceful Purposes.

  • Tuesday, August 6th 2024 - 20:31 UTC

    BCB's Copom would not hesitate to up Selic if need be

    Economic activity above expectations has led Brazil to the current situation

    Brazil Central Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) warned that it would not hesitate to up the basic Selic interest rate to make sure inflation meets the target if necessary.