Brazilian senators were engaged in a marathon debate Tuesday night before the final vote on the impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff on Monday fielded questions from senators on day four of her impeachment trial, as police lobbed tear gas to disperse her supporters protesting outside the Senate.
Brazilian lawmakers from the Workers' Party have filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for help in the impeachment trial of President Dilma Rousseff.
The impeachment process against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is part of a prolonged crisis in the country since she won the presidential election in 2014.
Brazil's Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed the government's motion to annul impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.
In a last-minute move to halt the Senate voting which may suspend President Dilma Rousseff from office, Brazil's attorney general filed on Tuesday an injunction trying to cancel the impeachment process.
Brazil's lower house on Monday announced a decision to nullify the chamber's vote on impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff, while the Senate decided to move forward and vote on the process on Wednesday as planned.
Two of Brazil's labor movements held various actions on Thursday rejecting the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff, according to news magazine, Veja.
The Brazilian Senate's special commission on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff approved on Tuesday at its first meeting that it would vote on May 6 on whether the process should continue or not.
The Brazilian Senate on Monday elected a special impeachment commission, which will analyze the case against President Dilma Rousseff starting on April 26, the commission said.
The lower house of Brazil's parliament on Sunday evening gave the go-ahead for the impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazil's Supreme Court (STF) began an extraordinary session Thursdasy to rule on whether the impeachment vote against President Dilma Rousseff, scheduled for Sunday in the Chamber of Deputies, should be scrapped due to process irregularities.
A Brazilian congressional committee voted on Monday to recommend impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff, but pro-government lawmakers believe a two-thirds majority can hardly be secured in the full lower house for the process to move ahead.
Brazil will overcome its current political and economic crises step by step and the government is not planning to announce a large package of measures to tackle them, a Brazilian official said on Wednesday.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff's approval rating plunged to 8 percent in August, a record low, according to a poll released Thursday by the Datafolha Institute.
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Friday for dereliction of duty in a controversial rice subsidy scheme.
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