Brazil

A drone shot shows a cargo plane at the flooded Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, May 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Wesley Santos/File Photo
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Brazil's Porto Alegre airport to resume operations after major floods

The airport, operated by Fraport, had its runways and corridors submerged in water as heavy rains battered Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state of which Porto Alegre is the capital,...

Members of Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade work to extinguish a fire rising in Amazon rainforest in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado
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Brazil fire brigades fight Amazon blazes off to torrid start in 2024

This frame grab from video shows wreckage from a plane that crashed by a home in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Aug. 9, 2024. (Felipe Magalhaes Filho via The Associated Press)
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Passenger plane crashes in Brazil, killing all 61 onboard

Brazilian Sharpnose Sharks (Rhizoprionodon Lalandii) are being analysed at a laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in this handout picture made available on July 23, 2024. Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)/Handout via REUTERS
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Sharks off Rio de Janeiro test positive for cocaine

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Offbeat

Brazilian drug lord arrested after wife's Instagram post gives away location

Thawanny Silva de Souza, 6, (L) and Rafael Silva de Souza, 9, (R) eat a lunch of rice, beans and egg in their family's house, in the Arco Iris favela in Recife, Brazil, September 15, 2022/File Photo
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Brazil sees over 100 countries joining alliance against hunger, minister says

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Bangladesh

PM Hasina scheduled to pay official visits to Spain, Brazil this month

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a news conference, in Montevideo, Uruguay, January 25, 2023. File Photo: REUTERS/Mariana Greif
Politics

Brazil's president blasts decision by Argentine counterpart to skip trade meetings

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reacts after meeting with Brazilian citizens, who were repatriated from the Gaza Strip, upon arrival at the Air Force base of Brasilia, Brazil November 13, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo
Global Economy

Brazil adopts free trade with Palestinian Authority in show of support

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro attends the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), in Balneario Camboriu, Santa Catarina state, Brazil July 6, 2024. Phto: REUTERS/Anderson Coelho
Politics

Brazil's Bolsonaro hopes for Trump return at right-wing rally

Brazil's Bolsonaro faces possible charges in Saudi jewel scandal
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Brazil's Bolsonaro faces possible charges in Saudi jewel scandal

Burnt trees and vegetation in the Pantanal. Photography by Amanda Perobelli/Reuters
Environment

Wildfires threaten world's largest tropical wetland in Brazil’s Pantanal

Smoke rises into the air from the fire that is reflected on the Paraguay River in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, June 11, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
Environment

Fires in Brazil Pantanal wetlands surge to record start in 2024