The Latest Breaking News from Brazil

The Brazilian government has granted a preliminary environmental permit for paving a controversial highway that cuts through one of the Amazon’s most preserved areas

Brazil on Friday reported the first monkeypox-related death outside the African continent in the current outbreak, shortly before Spain confirmed Europe's first known death in the outbreak later in the day.

Brazilian prosecutors on Friday called on messaging platform WhatsApp to delay the launch in Brazil of its new feature called Communities until January to avoid the spread of fake news during and immediately after the country's election in October.

Little Dierlissom Oliveira Paiva mauled body was found just 50 metres away from the slaughtered jaguar suspected of killing him to death in Para state, northern Brazil

As President Jair Bolsonaro has aggressively sought to boost gun ownership in Brazil, documents obtained by Reuters reveal one key source of resistance to his agenda: his own federal police.

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintains a wide lead over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the presidential election in October, according to a poll published Thursday. Forty-seven percent of those polled by Datafolha said they intend to support Lula, 76, in the first round, the same…

Brazil's environmental authority on Thursday granted an initial permit that will allow a major highway to be paved through the center of the Amazon rainforest, the minister of infrastructure said, in a move that threatens to increase deforestation.

Legalizing mining on indigenous land and other protected areas in Brazil's Amazon rainforest would lead to thousands of square kilometers in new deforestation, according to a study published on Thursday.

Raphinha became a Brazil international after playing under legendary Argentine coach Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds and has since joined Barcelona in a £55million transfer

Brazilian sensation Endrick has just signed his first pro contact at Palmeiras but many of the European's elite -including Chelsea- have been linked with the youngster dubbed the 'next Neymar'

In the clip posted online, the man can be heard suggesting that she had misunderstood him, telling her: “You’ve got it wrong” and “it was only a joke”