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Montevideo, October 24th 2025 - 05:58 UTC

Brazil

  • Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 08:32 UTC

    Brazilian Senate gives nod to future BCB CEO

    Galípolo is Lula's choice to replace Roberto Campos Neto, who stems from the Jair Bolsonaro administration

    Brazil's Federal Senate Tuesday greenlighted by 66 votes to 5 the appointment of Gabriel Galípolo as the next Central Bank (BCB) CEO to succeed Roberto Campos Neto, who stems from former President Jair Bolsonaro's administration and whose term ends Dec. 31.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 22:04 UTC

    Brazil transitioning from extremely dry weather to heavy rains

    Flooding might occur in some cities, a Metsul expert warned

    Brazil is in for one of the wettest weeks in the last semester, the weather agency MetSul warned Monday, as heavy rains, lightning, hail, and gales have been forecasted for the South American largest country's Midwest, Southeast, and South after an extended drought with very low air humidity and intense heat.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Brazilian Air Force flight from Lebanon lands in São Paulo

    The aircraft was to take off back to Beirut with a new crew to bring donations and airlift back the second batch of evacuees

    A Brazilian Air Force (FAB) aircraft landed at the São Paulo Air Base in Guarulhos at 10.25 am on Sunday carrying 229 Brazilian nationals who had been evacuated from war-torn Lebanon, in addition to 3 pets, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Lula says “fake news” reigns supreme in Brazil's municipal elections

    Some candidacies “have no commitment other than to provoke, to tell lies,” Lula insisted

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted this weekend that “fake news” had been widely used as a campaign tool ahead of Sunday's municipal elections nationwide. “We are seeing a great amount of 'fake news', a great number of lies, of provocations,” Lula stressed. “Now there are candidacies that have no commitment other than to provoke, to tell lies,” he also pointed out when casting his vote in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in Greater Sao Paulo, where he developed his trade union and political career since the 1970s.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 09:18 UTC

    Brazil world leading producer and exporter of rare mineral Niobium

    Niobium, Nb, was initially discovered in 1801 by English chemist, Charles Hatchett discovered the chemical element niobium, but initially identified as columbium.

    Niobium, a rare mineral primarily used to improve steel alloys, and of which Brazil is the world's main producer has seen prices relatively stable. Last year Brazil exported some 90% of its production, 86,3 thousand tons, equal to US$ 2,25 billion.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 09:06 UTC

    Brazil's municipal elections: Rio Mayor reelected Sunday; others will have to wait for runoff

    Paes was reelected Sunday but Sao Paulo will have to wait until the Oct. 27 runoff

    Eduardo Paes has been reelected for a fourth time as mayor of Rio de Janeiro in what was regarded as a major electoral blow from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. With 93.66% of the votes counted, the 54-year-old Paes had collected 60.26% support. The Social Democratic Party (PSD) candidate was mayor of Rio during back-to-back terms (2009-2017) and returned in 2020. Paes dedicated his victory to President Lula and Rio de Janeiro State Governor Cláudio Castro. “As of today, conflicts are over,” he said.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Brazil postpones rescue mission in Lebanon

    Of the nearly 21,000 Brazilians living in Lebanon, at least 3,000 approached the Embassy in Beirut to seek help fleeing the country

    Operation Cedar Roots has been postponed due to unsafe conditions reaching Beirut's International Airport by land for the some 220 Brazilians stranded in war-torn Lebanon, Agencia Brasil reported Friday. According to the latest update, the FAB aircraft is now scheduled to take off Saturday from Lisbon, Portugal, to the Lebanese capital.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    De Moraes says X paid fine to a wrong account

    De Moraes will not decide on X's future until he gets a report from the Attorney General's Office

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes said Friday that tycoon Elon Musk's social platform X had paid its R$ 28.6 million (US$ 5.24 million) fines to a wrong account and ordered this situation to be solved before allowing the service back, Agencia Brasil reported. X has been banned from South America's largest country since Aug. 30.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 16:05 UTC

    Lula back in Brasilia after botched flight

    “It is inexplicable that the UN Security Council does not have the moral and political authority to make Israel sit at a table to talk,” said Lula about the current Middle East crisis

    President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is finally back in Brasilia since 10.12 am local time Wednesday after a second Brazilian Air Force (FAB) airplane was sent to Mexico City to pick him up alongside his entourage following a technical problem with the VC-1 Airbus A329CJ aircraft carrying him that resulted in an emergency landing.

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:23 UTC

    Lula's presidential airplane makes emergency landing

    The technical problem affecting the Airbus A329CJ is still to be detailed

    Brazilian Air Force's (FAB) VC-1 aircraft carrying President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spent five hours flying in circles, presumably to burn fuel, before making an emergency landing due to technical problems at the Felipe Angeles International Airport, a commercial terminal serving Mexico Valley metropolitan area, Agencia Brasil reported.