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Montevideo, October 24th 2025 - 05:58 UTC

Brazil

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 21:25 UTC

    World leaders congratulate Trump on his win - still not Harris

    Trump declared victory early Wednesday and announced that America's golden age lay ahead

    While leaders from the world over have congratulated Republican candidate Donald J. Trump on his electoral win on Tuesday which has earned him a second 4-year term at The Oval Office, Vice President Kamala Harris is yet to acknowledge defeat, as is customary in these cases. Perhaps Trump himself was the only one to break that tradition four years ago when rumors of vote count-rigging still gave him hope against Joseph Biden.

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 17:58 UTC

    Brazilian beef industry ready to fight EU deforestation law scheduled to become effective December 30

    Brazil has a traceability protocol to export to EU; the SISBOV system mandates individual identification and monitoring of cattle at least 90 days before slaughter

    As the deadline for the implementation of the European Union anti deforestation law, scheduled for next December 30, (even when it could be delayed), the powerful Brazilian cattle and meat industry is working on the presentation of a pilot traceability and monitoring project for the supply chain to present to the EU.

  • Tuesday, November 5th 2024 - 22:50 UTC

    FAB completes 10th evacuation flight from war-torn Lebanon

    FAB missions have already evacuated 2,072 people and 24 pets from Lebanon since Oct. 2, 2024

    Brazil's Air Force (FAB) has completed its tenth humanitarian Operation Cedar Roots mission airlifting people out of war-turn Lebanon and bringing them to safety in South America, Agencia Brasil announced. A total of 213 refugees arrived in São Paulo at 4.06 am at the Guarulhos military Air Base for a total of 2,072 evacuees since Oct. 2. The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) has also rescued 24 pets. According to Brazilian authorities, some 20,000 nationals of the South American country live in Lebanon.

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 09:49 UTC

    Rio to tackle criminal organizations' cash flow

    According to Dos Santos, 47% of all the rifles seized this year in the state’s municipalities were made in the US.

    Federal government and Rio de Janeiro State authorities agreed last week to create a joint working group to target the cash flow of criminal rings operating in the area, Agencia Brasil reported. The measure was adopted after three people were killed during a gunfight with Rio Police.

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Brazilian rivers in Amazon face mercury contamination risk

    Mercury accumulates in the food chain, especially in fish consumed by the local population

    Four rivers in Amazonian indigenous territories were found to be at a high risk of mercury contamination, above levels considered safe, Agencia Brasil reported this week citing a study by the NGO WWF-Brazil.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 10:23 UTC

    Brazil: Unemployment down in 3Q

    Only in December 2013 was unemployment lower since these measurements started in 2012

    According to a report from Brazil’s Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released Thursday, unemployment in South America's largest country fell to 6.4 % in the third quarter of 2024 (from July to September), Agencia Brasil reported. These figures are 0.5 percentage points lower than between April and June, when it stood at 6.9%. Compared to July–September 2023, the drop is 1.3 percentage points. In that quarter, the rate was 7.7%.

  • Thursday, October 31st 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Venezuela pulls ambassador from Brasilia for consultations

    Caracas claims that Lula's advisor Celso Amorim was an agent of US imperialism

    Venezuela's Bolivarian regime Wednesday summoned its Ambassador in Brasilia to Caracas for consultations in repudiation of statements by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's foreign affairs advisor Celso Amorim, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 21:46 UTC

    G20 Summit to push for regional vaccine producing coalition

    Brazil cannot lose confidence in its organ transplant system, Trinidade also pointed out

    Brazil's Health Minister Nísia Trinidade Tuesday spoke in favor of creating a regional vaccine production coalition to avoid an encore of the setbacks experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. She made those remarks during a press conference after a G20 Health Ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro ahead of next month's Summit, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 10:24 UTC

    Maduro lashes out at Itamaraty and Boric

    Boric “believed that supporting the fascists of Venezuela against the Bolivarian Revolution was going to give him votes, on the contrary people do not support cowards,” Maduro argued

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Monday accused Brazil's Foreign Ministry of being an agent at the service of the United States, which would explain his country not being admitted as an associate member of BRICS, unlike Cuba and Bolivia.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Brazilian gov't and business agree on WTO reform ahead of G20 Summit

    Together, the B20 and G20 share a common vision of reforming the global trading system, Alckmin reckoned

    Brazil's government and businessmen gathered last week in São Paulo for the B20 summit, and they concurred on the need to push for world trade reforms ahead of the G20 summit, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro next month.