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Brazil floods leave 150,000 homeless, scores dead or missing

Rescuers rushed to evacuate people stranded by devastating floods across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul...

Indigenous people protest Brazil not protecting ancestral lands

Several thousand Indigenous demonstrators marched chanting to drum beats on Thursday to the seat of power in Brazil's capital...

Woman wheels corpse into Brazil bank to sign for loan

A woman brought a 68-year-old man in a wheelchair into a bank branch and tried to get him to...

INSIGHT-Brazil’s plans to drill for oil in the Amazon hit stiff Indigenous resistance

 State-run energy firm Petrobras has hit growing resistance from Indigenous groups and government agencies to its premier exploration project,...

X reverses course, tells Brazil court it will comply with rulings

Lawyers representing Elon Musk's X told Brazil's Supreme Court that the social media platform will comply with every ruling...

Help Lula save our people, Yanomami leader tells Pope Francis

A representative of Brazil's Yanomami people said he met Pope Francis on Wednesday to ask him to support Brazilian...

Brazil’s Lula calls meeting on the future of Petrobras CEO, sources say

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called a meeting on Sunday evening with three cabinet ministers that could decide...

Brazil judge opens inquiry into Musk after refusal to block accounts on X

A standoff between Elon Musk and Brazil escalated on Sunday when a Supreme Court judge opened an inquiry into...

Study finds mercury contamination in Brazil’s Yanomami people

Indigenous people from nine villages in Brazil's Yanomami territory were found to be contaminated by mercury, with those living...

Bolsonaro tells Supreme Court he did not seek asylum at Hungarian embassy

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro told Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday he had no reason to...

Brazil’s Bolsonaro stayed two days in Hungarian embassy after passport seized

Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro stayed for two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia last month, just...

Robinho’s defense appeals to avoid prison after transfer of rape sentence to Brazil

The defense of former soccer player Robinho has filed a request to Brazil's Supreme Court to avoid his immediate...

Man in Rio de Janeiro surrenders after holding 17 hostages on hijacked bus

Police in Brazil arrested a man on Tuesday after he hijacked a bus and shot two people at a...

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