Antônio Vinicius Gritzbach had recently agreed to hand over information about the Primeiro Comando da Capital group. Former Brazil and Real Madrid defender Marcelo leaves Brazilian Serie A club ...
People in southern Brazil have described the unprecedented ... Now we don't have water anywhere," she said in a voice message she sent to the BBC. "My mother-in-law is 90 years old and she had ...
Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave. Rio de Janeiro recorded 42.5C on Sunday - a record for November ...
X, formerly known as Twitter, has closed its office in Brazil over a censorship row. The social media platform said a Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Alexandre de Moraes, threatened its legal ...
The Cerrado savannah is described by Sir David Attenborough in the BBC documentary series Planet Earth III as a "grassland paradise". It covers nearly a fifth of Brazil's territory and hosts 5% of ...
Brazil opens vast reserve to mining Amazon forest sees new alliance emerge - BBC News Brazil record deforestation drop Environmentalists say the revised laws will reward those who have deforested ...
Rio de Janeiro police targeted several claw machines across the city on Wednesday, saying they are games of chance - like slot machines - and therefore illegal. Officers confiscated machines ...
Figures from Brazil's Inpe, dating back to 1998, also show the country suffered worse periods of fire activity in the 2000s. Reports in mid-August, including on the BBC, had said there were a ...
Brazil introduced an electronic voting system ... Carlos Velozo speaks to Ashley Byrne, in this Made in Manchester production for BBC World Service. Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive.
832-degree temperatures in Brazil, and slightly higher ones in Kenya. But those predictions, thankfully, were erroneous. They were the result of a glitch on the BBC Weather app that warned ...
Venezuela criticises Brazil's decision to veto its admission to the Brics group of emerging economies. Prosecutors say Alejandro Toledo took $35m in bribes from a Brazilian construction company.
More than 62,000 sq km of rainforest has burned in Brazil, this year alone. The BBC sets out to find the man allegedly behind a plot to smuggle 1.2 tonnes of cocaine to Europe. Former Manchester ...