Brazil News

With the World Cup in June and July and a presidential election in October, many Brazilians aren't thinking beyond 2014.

Bras - Brazil is planning to build its first aircraft carrier to replace its aging only model as part of a steady upgrade to its armed forces, Defense Minister Celso Amorim said Tuesday.In recent years Brazil has purchased submarines, helicopters and superson...

Rio De Janeiro - Rio police will boost their presence in a violent slum controlled by drug gangs as authorities crack down on crime in the final countdown to the World Cup, an official source said Tuesday.The source said a specialist police battalion will be deployed i...

Braz - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Monday said the country was rolling out a vaccination program to protect five million 11-to 13-year-old girls against the human papilloma virus (HPV), which can cause cause cervical cancer."The state has an obligat...

Rio De Janeiro - Rio cleaners have swept up more than 18 tons of Carnival trash since ending an eight-day strike at the weekend, authorities said Monday.Trash had been piled high in the streets after a week of festivities before the cleaners agreed to return to work an...

Rio De Janeiro - Hundreds of security forces could be deployed again to a notorious maze of slums in northern Rio, home to a major 2010 police action, after the death of three officers, officials said Sunday.

UBS AG <UBSN.VX> will restart investment banking operations in Brazil as early as next week, sources said, almost five years after Switzerland's biggest bank sold its ...

- Nike will supply the kit for more teams than Adidas for the first time ever at this year's World Cup finals.The two sports giants will throw Lionel Messi against Cristiano Ronaldo and Spain against Brazil to see who can claim a bigger chunk of the mult...

Brazil is considering ways to push up the cost of wireless broadcast permits in exchange for accepting worse coverage, a government source told Reuters on Thursday, highlighting the tradeoffs that may b...

Rio De Janeiro - After two days of heady street parties, Rio's Carnival added a sultry yet competitive edge Sunday as the city's elite samba schools readied to dance off at the famed Sambadrome.A dozen of the best schools, each consisting of several thousand scantily-c...