The Latest Breaking News from Brazil

Brazil's severe drought and wildfires pose environmental and humanitarian challenges, requiring urgent action.

Is Brazil's shutdown of Elon Musk's X a drastic but necessary move in the global fight against disinformation, or pure censorship?

A powerful drought in the Amazon rainforest has led to the lowest water levels on the Paraguay River in more than a century, disrupting commerce on the major waterway, creating hazards for local transport and offering a grim warning for other parts of the world

Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began in 1950, according to the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters

Smoke from intense wildfires in the Amazon rainforest and other parts of Brazil was choking major cities, like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on Monday, and wafting into neighboring countries.

Ten years ago, in March 2014, prosecutors in the Brazilian city of Curitiba transformed a money laundering investigation into a historic anti-corruption probe known as Operação Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash). The probe uncovered evidence of corruption involving some of Brazil’s largest companies and most powerful politicians.

It is easy to get distracted by the barbs, swipes and bluster of the ongoing and very public spat between the world’s richest man and a fierce justice on Brazil’s highest court. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, posts regularly of his contempt for Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de…

Brazilian dog Floki is a footvolley star

October NY world sugar #11 (SBV24 ) Monday closed down -0.08 (-0.42%), and Oct London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV24 ) closed down -6.70 (-1.26%). Sugar prices Monday fell to 2-week lows and closed moderately lower on optimism that above-average monsoon rains in India will lead to a bumper sugar...

December arabica coffee (KCZ24 ) Monday closed up +9.40 (+3.98%), and November ICE robusta coffee (RMX24 ) closed up +121 (+2.54%). Coffee prices rallied sharply on Monday due to adverse global weather events that may curb coffee production. Dry conditions in Brazil, the world's largest producer of arabica coffee, are...

October NY world sugar #11 (SBV24 ) today is down -0.10 (-0.53%), and Oct London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV24 ) is down -6.10 (-1.14%). Sugar prices today slid to 2-week lows and are moderately lower on optimism that above-average monsoon rains in India will lead to a bumper sugar...