Brazil's Senate was expected to vote on Wednesday to dismiss President Dilma Rousseff, finalizing a nine-month impeachment process and confirming the country's shift to the right with the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule.
Suspended Brazil President Dilma Roussef denied on Monday (Aug 29) that she had committed an impeachable crime, as she defended herself before senators preparing to vote on removing her from office.
Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff, twice elected president as the candidate of a left-leaning alliance led by the Workers' Party (PT), will undergo one of the most critical moments of her political career next week.
Rio Olympic Committee again used the wrong Chinese flag at the women's volleyball awarding ceremony on Sunday.
Former FIFA president Joao Havelange died at 100 on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,according to media reports.
Limited domestic output and rising per-capita incomes are pushing beef-hungry China to import the high-protein, low-fat meat in increasing quantities from Brazil.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong will attend the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Aug. 5 in Brazil as President Xi Jinping's special representative.
Twelve Brazilian suspects arrested for discussing a potential attack during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were "no joke," the prosecutor for the case told Reuters on Monday.
Brazil arrested 10 people on Thursday suspected of belonging to a poorly organized group supporting Islamic State (IS) and discussing terrorist acts during the next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil has confirmed 1,709 cases of microcephaly among newborns potentially linked to the Zika virus, including 102 deaths, in the past nine months, said the Health Ministry.
Brazil's interim President Michel Temer has guaranteed Rio de Janeiro will stage a successful Olympic Games and assured international visitors that the city will welcome them "with open arms".
Brazil’s president is facing impeachment. The country’s economy is in sharp decline. Bodies of water that will be used for Olympic competitions are polluted, and global public health officials are trying to tamp down the Zika virus epidemic.
A man has been arrested in Brazil after trying to put out the Olympic flame by throwing a bucket of water over it.
At least 886 people have died of the influenza A virus subtype H1N1, or swine flu, in Brazil so far this year, said a report released on Friday by the country's health ministry.
The political change in Brazil featuring interim President Michel Temer's government reshuffle and major policy shift has posed a test of the capability of the five-nation bloc of BIRCS to promote economic development through multilateral cooperation.
Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested Diego Dzodan, Facebook's vice-president for Latin America, for not complying with previous judicial decisions.