Brazil

Jorge Messias at his swearing-in as head of Brazil's Advocacia-Geral da União, at the Planalto Palace in Brasília, in January 2023.

Brazil and the United States

Brazil asks its federal police to investigate a $1 million U.S. State Department grant aimed at critics of its Supreme Court

Nelore cattle in Campos Belos, Goiás, in February 2014.

Brazilian beef now faces a 67% duty in China after the annual quota ran out

Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira at the Palácio Itamaraty in Brasília, in April 2023.

Brazil and the US set up a tariff working group, with Washington due to send a proposal within weeks

Denise Pires de Carvalho in an official portrait from 2023, when she was Brazil's secretary for higher education.

A Brazilian will head UNESCO's science sector for the first time

The facade of the Palácio da Justiça, seat of Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security, in Brasília, in 2020.

Brazil asks regulator to block 5,209 illegal betting sites; 2,387 are already down

The sign outside the Harry S Truman Building, the State Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., in December 2025.

Brazilians are among the 43,000 immigrant visa refusals the United States now has to reopen

A soybean field in Brasnorte, north-western Mato Grosso, in 2016.

Brazil's weather service forecasts October up to 2°C above average in the Centre-West and Southeast, with erratic rain

Official portrait of Eduardo Bolsonaro as a federal congressman for São Paulo, taken at the Chamber of Deputies in 2023.

Brazil's Supreme Court convicts Eduardo Bolsonaro of defamation and sentences him to a year

The façade of the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília, seat of Brazil's presidency, in 2020.

Brazil bans online betting by decree, and sites go dark on 6 October

A screen showing Discord, a platform popular with teenagers, photographed in Brasília in August 2026.

Brazil's government rejects Discord's offer and asks court to impose child-protection measures

Damage from the extratropical cyclone that struck Rio Grande do Sul in July 2023. Archive image.

Cyclone leaves four missing in southern Brazil and 623,000 customers without power

Injectable pens used in obesity treatment, photographed in Brasília on 27 August 2026

Brazil's health ministry promises weight-loss drugs on the SUS, but what exists today is a 250-patient study

Census taker Patrick Emanuel Miranda on his first round of interviews for Brazil's 2022 Census, in downtown Rio de Janeiro

IBGE takes lies about the National Health Survey to the Federal Police and the solicitor general's office

The Moorish Pavilion, Fiocruz's historic building in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, in 2009

Pandemic lesson

Brazil set to create a permanent health emergency center by year-end

Air traffic at Guarulhos Airport, São Paulo state, on October 21, 2025

Brazil's Health Ministry warns of measles reintroduction risk with World Cup travel