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Rising petrochemical prices have buoyed the long-term prospects for Brazil's Braskem even as the company is ​racing against the clock to deal with looming interest payments on its debt.

Former President Jair Bolsonaro will serve prison time under house arrest after he is released from ‌a hospital where he is being treated for pneumonia, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes decided on Tue...

Consumer prices in Brazil rose more than expected in the month to mid-February, official data showed on Friday, but that should not prevent the central bank from kicking off a monetary easing cycle next month.

The death toll from the heavy rains in Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais has risen to 46, according to figures released by the state fire department on Wednesday.

Brazil's central government started the year with a smaller-than-expected primary surplus as spending outpaced revenue growth, Treasury data showed on Wednesday.

At least 14 people died and 440 were displaced after heavy rains hit the southeastern Brazilian city of Juiz de Fora, the local city hall said on Tuesday.

At least 25 people have died in the south-eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais after heavy rains on Monday evening caused floods and several landslides.

Six passengers were killed on Monday in a bus crash on a federal highway in southeastern Brazil, federal and Sao Paulo state officials said, and another 45 injured people were sent to local hospitals for medical treatmen...

Brazil's inflation is expected to have kept a moderate pace in January, a Reuters poll showed, probably remaining under the upper limit of the central bank's target range for the third month in a row.

At least 15 people have died as the bus they were travelling in overturned in northeastern Brazil, local officials have said.

Michele Campos feels like crying every summer when temperatures in Rio de Janeiro climb above 40°C (100°F), heating up the cement that covers every corner of the favela of Chapeu Mangueira where she lives and making life...

A Brazilian judge on Saturday issued house arrest orders for 10 people who have been convicted and sentenced for participating in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in power after he lost the 2022 election.

Brazil's Senate approved on Wednesday a bill to shorten the 27-year prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, although it is likely to face resistance from the Supreme Court and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Si...

Thousands of Brazilians on Sunday protested in major cities against a legislative effort to lower the jail sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters for plotting to overthrow democracy after he lost...

About 1.5 million homes and businesses were without electricity on Thursday after an extratropical cyclone swept through Sao Paulo's metropolitan area, toppling trees and power lines and disrupting flights and the water...

Brazil's lower house early on Wednesday approved a bill that could potentially cut former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison term from 27 years to just over two if the Senate also backs the measure.

Sao Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas said on Monday that Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro will have his support in a potential run for president next year, following days of silence about the matter.

Tens of thousands of women in cities across Brazil rallied against gender-based violence Sunday as a record number of female victims and a series of recent high-profile cases have shocked the country.

Brazilian police launched Thursday a police operation to dismantle a major tax evasion and money-laundering scheme in the fuel sector. The group under investigation is the country’s largest tax debtor, owing more than 2...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday told a judge that medicine-induced paranoia and hallucination caused him to tamper with an electronic ankle monitor, court records showed, a day after police took him i...