Mayor Eduardo Paes (centrist) set aside one of the city's music stages for gospel, a genre closely tied to evangelical ...

Within hours of returning to office, in January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump took an axe to multilateralism by pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord and the World Health ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left a hospital on Thursday, a week after he underwent a double hernia surgery.

When President Donald Trump this past summer, at the personal request of Jair Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo, levied sanctions against Moraes in response to that series of abuses, many on the Brazilian right ...

Both forces have tactical units, including the military police’s BOPE division, which has been involved in some of Brazil's ...

GENEVA, 18 December 2025 –UNAIDS congratulates Brazil in attainting the certification for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV and syphilis as determined by the World Health ...

The Legal Amazon is the most dangerous region in Brazil for defenders of human and environmental rights. Agribusiness, illegal mining, and timber exploitation are behind many murders that remain ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned Brazil’s Congress for advancing the General Environmental Licensing Bill and called on lawmakers to support negotiations at COP30 and ratify the Escazú ...

As Brazil prepares to host COP30 in Belém, it faces a defining test: will it lead the world toward a just energy transition — or repeat the extractive mistakes of its past? Brazil has been presented ...

Brazil's most lethal police raid against drug gangs resulted in at least 121 deaths, sparking criticism and calls for investigation. The operation targeted the Comando Vermelho gang following ...