Tag: Brazil

Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:03 UTC
Pele discharged from hospital after successful surgery

Pele was released from a Sao Paulo hospital on Monday, his Brazilian doctors said, two days after the football great had surgery to remove a kidney stone. The three-time World Cup winner was admitted to the Albert Einstein hospital last Tuesday, after returning from France where he had received treatment for a urinary tract infection.
Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 08:59 UTC
Credit risk agencies lower Brazil's growth estimates for 2019

JPMorgan Chase & Co and Barclays became the latest financial institutions to lower their estimates for Brazil’s economic growth this year, on the back of weak activity data and increased political uncertainty.
Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 06:54 UTC
Ex president of Brazilian football federation banned for life by FIFA

World football's governing body Fifa on Monday issued a lifetime ban on José Maria Marin, the former president of the Brazil federation. The 86-year-old was jailed for four years last August in New York after being found guilty of corruption.
Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 06:44 UTC
American Museum of Natural History will not host a dinner to honor Bolsonaro

The American Museum of Natural History in New York said on Monday that it will not host a planned gala dinner that was set to honor Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro as “Person of the Year.”
Monday, April 15th 2019 - 17:41 UTC
Spectacular fireball across the night sky was recorded in southern Brazil

A spectacular fireball was recorded blazing across the night sky over Rio Grande do Sul and the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil around 3:21 a.m. local time (6:21 UTC) on Friday.
Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:34 UTC
Brazil fuel-price controversy: Minister Guedes confident he can convince Bolsonaro and overcome the situation

Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said he’ll clear up any confusion from President Jair Bolsonaro’s decision to halt a planned fuel-price hike by Petrobras.
Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:33 UTC
Brazilian president Bolsonaro clarifies his remarks on the Holocaust

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has clarified remarks he made on Friday about the Holocaust which were vehemently condemned by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.
Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:38 UTC
NY Museum of Natural History embarrassed over a booking to honor Brazilian president Bolsonaro

New York’s Museum of Natural History said it was “considering its options” after discovering a private function booked to take place there would honour Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:21 UTC
Brazil's Lower House speaker and supporter of the pensions' reform, under police investigation

Brazilian police have accused Rodrigo Maia, Brazil’s powerful lower house speaker, and his father of receiving bribes totalling at least 1.4 million reais (US$ 361,869), a document on Friday showed. The federal police document was delivered to the Supreme Court, as part on an ongoing investigation into Maia.
Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:14 UTC
Chinese company interested in taking over Ford's Brazilian plant in Sao Paulo

China’s Beiqi Foton Motor Co Ltd is eyeing the acquisition of Ford Motor Co’s Brazilian plant in the industrial city of Sao Bernardo do Campo, newspaper Valor Economico reported on Friday.