The Latest Breaking News from Brazil

Breakthrough in Hunt for Missing British Journalist as Major Clue Discovered

A British journalist missing in Brazil may be hundreds of miles away from her last known location, it has emerged.

The Fashion Central · Feb 25, 2025

In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin Indigenous people

The Independent UK · Feb 25, 2025

Sugar Prices Resume Rally and Post 2-1/2 Month High

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK25 ) today is up +0.40 (+1.90%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK25 ) is up +8.80 (+1.59%). May NY sugar prices today edged to a new 2-1/2 month high, extending the sharp rally seen since mid-January. The rally in the Brazilian real...

Barchart · Feb 25, 2025

Arabica Coffee Falls to New 2-1/2 Week Low

May arabica coffee (KCK25 ) today is down -8.00 (-2.06%), and March ICE robusta coffee (RMH25 ) is down -86 (-1.51%). Coffee prices today are trading lower as long liquidation pressure continued, with NY coffee falling to a new 2-1/2 week low and reversing more of the rally seen in...

Barchart · Feb 24, 2025

Weather tracker: temperatures hit record highs across South America

Rio de Janeiro reached 44C, its highest temperature for more than a decade, last Monday

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2025

Sinkholes appear in Amazon as Brazilian city declares emergency

Buriticupu, in the Brazilian Amazon, has declared an emergency in the face of these sinkholes

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2025

I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule

When a former congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda Torres

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2025

Toddler Dies After Being Forgotten in Car Outside Nursery for Hours

A heartbreaking tragedy unfolded in Necropolis, Goais state, Brazil, when a two-year-old boy, Salomao Rodrigues Faustino.

The Fashion Central · Feb 23, 2025

Australia's women bounce back to book sevens semi berth

Australia's women have set up a semi-final against top-ranked New Zealand in the sevens tournament in Canada, recovering from their first-ever loss to Brazil.

AAP · Feb 23, 2025

Brazil topple Aussie rugby women in sevens sensation

Australia's rugby sevens women, the World Series champions, have been beaten by Brazil in Vancouver in one of the game's great shocks.

AAP · Feb 22, 2025