Brazil News
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Brazil surpassed 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday as the disease continued to rip through South America's worst-hit country.
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Vast tracts of pristine rainforest on three continents went up in smoke last year, with an area roughly the size of Switzerland cut down or burned to make way for cattle and commercial crops, researchers said Tuesday.
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The United States has delivered two million doses of the antimalarial medicine hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to Brazil to fight COVID-19, the White House said Sunday, though the drug has not been proven effective against the coronavirus.
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Brazil on Saturday reached 28,834 coronavirus fatalities, authorities said, surpassing hard-hit France and becoming the country with the world's fourth-highest death toll.
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Brazil on Friday reached 27,878 coronavirus deaths, official figures showed, surpassing the toll of hard-hit Spain and making it the country with the fifth-highest number of fatalities.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Brazil's northeast, a harsh place of arid land, cyclical drought and crushing poverty, is emerging as the next crisis zone in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Brazil reported the highest daily COVID-19 death toll in the world Tuesday with 1,039 people killed, the fifth straight day the country has topped the list.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is often compared to his US counterpart, Donald Trump, has followed in his footsteps on the coronavirus crisis -- and gone even further.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Brazilian police raided the Rio de Janeiro state governor's official residence Tuesday as part of an investigation into the alleged embezzlement of funds to build field hospitals for coronavirus patients.
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Bras -
Two of Brazil's top media groups said Monday they were suspending coverage of President Jair Bolsonaro's informal news conferences outside the presidential palace because of harassment by his supporters and a lack of security.
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Bras -
Brazil's health ministry said Monday it would not change its recommendation to treat coronavirus with hydroxychloroquine, despite the World Health Organization deciding to suspend trials of the drug over safety concerns.
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Rio De Janeiro -
On April 22, Brazil was fast becoming a new coronavirus flashpoint, but President Jair Bolsonaro and his cabinet barely mentioned the pandemic in a video-taped meeting that has triggered outrage and fueled a potentially explosive investigation.
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Brazil overtook Russia Friday as the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus infections worldwide behind the United States, as the Americas emerged as a new epicenter of the pandemic.
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Bras -
Brazilians got a shocking look Friday at an expletive-laced meeting between President Jair Bolsonaro and his cabinet when a Supreme Court judge released a video at the center of an investigation targeting the far-right leader.
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South America has become "a new epicentre" of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said Friday, following a surge in the number of COVID-19 infections."In a sense, South America has become a new epicentre for the disease.
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More young people are dying of COVID-19 in Brazil than other countries, a trend driven partly by demographics -- the overall population is younger -- but also by poverty and the need to work.
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The novel coronavirus death toll in Brazil surpassed 20,000 on Thursday, after a record number of fatalities in a 24-hour period, the health ministry said.
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The day after Brazil registered a record 1,179 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, Sao Paulo grave digger Moises Francisco notched a bleak milestone of his own.
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Legendary photographer Sebastiao Salgado has warned of a "genocide" of the Amazon's indigenous peoples if the Brazilian government does not do more to protect them from the coronavirus.
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By AFP
Bras -
Brazil's health ministry recommended Wednesday using chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat even mild cases of COVID-19, treatments President Jair Bolsonaro has pushed for despite a lack of conclusive evidence of their effectiveness.
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Leading British supermarket chains have warned Brazil they may be forced to boycott its goods if lawmakers in the South American country pass a bill that would "encourage further land grabbing" in the Amazon.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Brazil registered 1,179 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said Tuesday, as the pandemic exacted its worst daily toll yet in the hardest-hit Latin American country.
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Bras -
Brazil re-enlisted more than 150 Cuban doctors Monday to help fight a surge in coronavirus cases, a year and a half after Havana ended a medical assistance program over a row with President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Brazil has the third-highest number of novel coronavirus cases in the world, according to official figures released Monday, a troubling surge for a country struggling to respond to the pandemic.
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The coronavirus pandemic has hit 38 indigenous groups in Brazil, raising fears for populations that have a history of being decimated by outside diseases, the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples' Association (APIB) said Friday.
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LATAM Airlines said Friday it would lay off 1,400 employees in South America, blaming a drastic slump in business due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Bras -
Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned Friday after less than a month on the job over what an official said was "incompatibility" with President Jair Bolsonaro's approach to fighting the country's spiraling coronavirus crisis.
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Bras -
Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned Friday after less than a month on the job over what an official said was "incompatibility" with President Jair Bolsonaro's approach to fighting the country's spiralling coronavirus crisis.
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Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he fears a "genocide" in Brazil because of fierce opposition to coronavirus containment measures by current President Jair Bolsonaro, whom he said should be impeached.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro denied Tuesday he had top police officials fired to shield his family from investigations, as potentially damning revelations continued to fly in a case that has hurt the far-right leader.
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Yours truly during relaxing time while enjoying Canoa Quebrada.
The Guarani of Laranjeira Nanderu community lived
camped on the side of a highway for a year and a half. © Survival
Spanish biologist, Gonzalo Alonso Hernández, was found murdered in Cunhambebe natural park, close to his home. YouTube
Azulejos, hand painted blue ceramic tiles, typical decorative element in landscape of Portugal, here in Igreja e Convento de São Francisco, Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Reflections of Rio Urubu, then Rio Negro, then the mighty Amazon (Solimoes) river, state of Amazonas, Brazil.
Protesters in Rio de Janeiro over oil royalties. YouTube
A typical favela or slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pēteris
The level of pollution in Rio de Janiero is evident here in this photograph taken April 18, 2012. Tetraktys
Street vendor of hats on the stairs of Cathedral Basilica, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
São Paulo's Cantareira reservoir system has fallen to about five percent capacity as the drought continues. YouTube
Night time coming in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest at Urubu River, Amazonas, Brazil.
Street gallery of paintings in Bahia style, rich with colours, Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Map of location of prison riot in Brazil Screen Capture
Municipal de Ipatinga- Ipatinga is a city and municipality located in the eastern state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Souza Soares
A boat ride towards the biggest waterfall of the area, La Garganta del Diablo (97m high) on the Argentinian side.
Global coverage of the newly-released photos
has pushed the Peruvian government into
action. ©www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilphotos
Ghost girl and her doll frightens late night commuters in Fortaleza Metro.(Screen capture from YouTube video). SBT
Rua Alfredo de Brito with a steep street towards Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos. Its towers, some 150 metres away from the point this picture was taken, are viewed from the level of the street, Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Leaders of the 5 BRICS countries. Screen capture from video
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