Brazilian former president Michel Temer was arrested yesterday morning in São Paulo on suspicion of corruption. A number of his ministers were also arrested. Temer was from 2016 to 2018…
A shooting in a school in Brazil killed at least five children and an adult. The incident was at a school in Suzano, near São Paulo. It would be about...
The new Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro left the hospital in São Paulo after more than two weeks. The 63-year-old former soldier now returns to Brasilia, says his...
The authorities in the Brazilian state of São Paulo have arrested more than fifty police officers on Tuesday. They are suspected of being bribed by the powerful criminal...
At least four people were killed because an armed man in a church in Brazil opened fire. Then the man shot himself dead.
A plane crash has killed two people in São Paulo. Twelve others were injured.
Conservative populist Jair Bolsonaro has won the presidential elections in Brazil. That has been announced by the Brazilian electoral council. About 97 percent of the votes were counted, with 55 percent going to the former military, reports the BBC.
Some 147 million Brazilian voters may decide on Sunday who will lead the country in the coming years. The conservative populist Jair Bolsonaro takes the lead in the polls. His followers see him as an outsider who can go through a corrupt system with the broom.
The stabbed Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro left the Einstein hospital in São Paulo after 23 days. That is what Brazilian media report. According to a report in the daily newspaper O Globo, the extreme right-wing ex-soldier wanted to fly to Río de Janeiro on Saturday, where he lives.
The Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has undergone late surgery on Wednesday evening to restore stitches to his intestinal walls. That is what the Einstein Hospital in the Brazilian city of São Paulo has known.
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gets out of the race for the presidency, reported sources around the candidate. For the elections of next month, his running-mate Fernando Hadad is now the most important candidate of the socialist PT.
Brazilian prosecutors are again prosecuting a prominent member of Workers' Party PT for corruption. This Fernando Haddad, the former mayor of Sao Paulo, is expected to become the presidential candidate of his party in the short term.
The former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may not participate in the presidential elections in October. The electoral court in Brazil has decided to do so because of Lula's condemnation of corruption. The lawyers of Lula have already said they will appeal.
Former Brazilian President Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (72) has again been nominated by the Labor Party for the party during the presidential election. This is remarkable because Lula, as he is usually called, has been in jail since April this year.
A Brazilian federal judge, Rogério Favreto, has ordered that the former Brazilian president Luíz Inacio Lula da Silva be released. The leftist politician Lula da Silva has been detained in the city of Curituba since April, because he has been convicted for twelve years because of a corruption case called the triplex case. Lula accepted an apartment on the coast of the state of São Paulo as a gift from a construction company. The expensive apartment was actually a bribe from the company that wanted government assignments.
In Sao Paulo (Brazil) a large fire destroyed two buildings on Tuesday morning. The fire brigade has been pulled out with 57 vehicles to get the fire under control. That reports the Brazilian news site Estadao. It is still unclear whether and how many victims there are.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has passed the deadline to report to the Brazilian police. According to the media, the former president is negotiating about this.
Going on a world trip costs money. Lots of money. Many people therefore choose to do some work here and there while traveling. Similarly the Italian couple Kim (23) and Paolo (28). However, they have found a remarkable way to earn a living: the couple films themselves during sex and publishes the videos on their own site.
In the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais the state of emergency has been declared because of a deadly outbreak of yellow fever. The tropical disease has cost the lives of at least fifteen people since December.
In a prison outbreak near the Brazilian capital Brasilia, nine prisoners were killed and fourteen were injured. According to the daily newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, 106 prisoners escaped from the prison of the town of Goiânia on Monday. The police were only able to capture 27 escapees again.
The prominent jurist Carla del Ponte has said goodbye to the United Nations Human Rights Council. She released her frustrations about the fact that no special tribunal was established to punish war crimes committed in Syria.
Eleven people died on Tuesday afternoon after a tree on festival visitors fell on the Portuguese island of Madeira. That reports Portuguese media.
The former boss of the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras and ex-topman of Banco do Brasil, Aldemir Bendine, has been arrested in a corruption investigation. Brazilian media reported that it was arrested by the federal police in Sorocaba in the state of São Paulo. Bendine is suspected of having taken over from one of the largest construction companies in the world, the Brazilian company Odebrecht.
The immense forest fire in the Pedrógão Grande region proves that civil protection in Portugal is not up to such natural disasters. That says Paulo Fernandes, professor of forestry at the University of Vila Real against the newspaper Público.
Brazilian President Michel Temer refuses to resign, even if he is charged with the Supreme Court. 'I do not resign. Turn me off if you want, 'said a controversial Temer published in a Monday interview with the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper.
Following a call from unions and social organizations, in some fifteen Brazilian cities protesters have gone up the road to demand the resignation of President Michel Temer. The newspaper Jornal O Globo reported that there were demonstrations in, among others, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Recife and Belo Horizonte.
This year so far slain in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, 51 police officers. That's a record for the period since tracking those numbers began 23 years ago.
When a major fire in one of the many favelas in São Paulo, Brazil destroyed at least fifty houses. The fire started in the slums Paraisópolis, only firefighters could extinguish the fire after hours.
In the northeastern Brazilian city of Belém has occurred between Friday and Saturday a series of thirty mysterious murders.
