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The Rio de Janeiro public defender’s office on Wednesday (October 29, 2025) said a total of 132 people died in the bloodiest police raid against drug gangs in the Brazilian city’s history, as grieving residents laid out dozens of bodies in the street. “The most recent update is 132 dead,” the Rio state public defender’s…
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A passenger bus in northeastern Brazil crashed into a sand embankment and flipped on its side, killing at least 17 people, authorities said on Saturday (October 18, 2025). The bus was carrying about 30 passengers, police said. The number of injured, who were taken to nearby hospitals, was not immediately clear. The vehicle crashed in…
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The ruling from Moraes cited X’s noncompliance with the order to provide the user’s data. Brasilia: Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the social media platform X owned by billionaire Elon Musk to pay a fine of 8.1 million reais ($1.42 million) for noncompliance with judicial orders, according to a ruling made public…
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Sao Paulo, Brazil: Brazilian authorities said Wednesday they were searching for a British journalist who has been missing for 11 days in the South American country. Sao Paulo’s public security secretariat said in a statement sent to AFP that police were “carrying out investigations to locate the missing person and clarify the facts.” The Association…
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Brasilia: Brazil’s attorney general on Tuesday formally charged far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro and 33 others over an alleged coup attempt after his 2022 election loss. Bolsonaro, 69, and his co-accused were hit with five charges over the alleged bid to prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office after a bitter election…
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Neymar in action for Santos© AFP Neymar scored for the first time in over 14 months on Sunday with his first goal for Santos since his return to his boyhood club at the start of the month. The 33-year-old helped Santos beat fourth division Agua Santa 3-1 in a Sao Paulo state championship…
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Santos’ president told Brazilian superstar Neymar it was “time to return to (his) people” in a video published on social media on Tuesday. Club president Marcelo Teixeira took to Instagram to deliver the message to Neymar but did not officially confirm the 32-year-old’s return to the club where he first broke through in…
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Brazilian star Neymar on Monday ended his injury-plagued 18 month stay in Saudi Arabia as his club, Al-Hilal said they had “agreed to terminate the player’s contract by mutual consent”. “The club expresses its thanks and appreciation to Neymar for what he has provided throughout his career with Al-Hilal, and wish the player…
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Washington: The United States will impose tariffs on the countries that “harm” America, President Donald Trump has said, as he named China, India and Brazil as high-tariff countries. “We’re going to put tariffs on outside countries and outside people that really mean harm to us. Well, they mean us harm, but they basically want to…
Rio de Janeiro: The Brazil government has expressed outrage and said it would demand an explanation from the Donald Trump administration, after dozens of immigrants who were deported from the United States, arrived by plane in handcuffs. Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said the treatment mated to immigrants during the fight home was a “flagrant disregard” of…