The death toll from the collapse of a twelve-story building caused by heavy rains in the city of São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil, has risen to six people, including a seven-year-old girl, after the search efforts were concluded, local authorities confirmed this Sunday."The eight victims have been located after the...
At least two people have lost their lives and two others have been seriously injured this Saturday after the partial collapse of a twelve-story building in the city of São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil, caused by the intense rains that have been hitting the region in recent hours, according to...
The Federal Police of Brazil is investigating Senator and presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro for the 'Dark Horse' case, focused on alleged irregular financing of a biographical film about the career of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The case has gained public relevance after the Supreme Court made the summary of the...
The Expanded National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) of Brazil stood in August at 4.22% year-on-year, below the 4.44% recorded in the same month of the previous year, according to data released this Friday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).In monthly terms, prices in the eighth month of...
The Federal Police of Brazil maintains an open investigation against the senator and presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro for the "Dark Horse" case, focused on alleged irregular financing of a biographical film about the life of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The case has gained public relevance after the Supreme Court lifted...
The Federal Police of Brazil launched on Thursday a wide operation with at least 49 search and seizure warrants within an investigation for an alleged irregular use of public money intended to finance a biographical film about former president Jair Bolsonaro.The searches, authorized by Supreme Federal Court judge Flávio Dino,...
The Supreme Court of Brazil decided this Wednesday to reinstate the director of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, after the dismissal agreed the day before by the judge of the same court André Mendonça, after some police reports pointed him out for allegedly directing certain investigations and for abuse of...
The president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) of Brazil, Edson Fachin, has granted a period of 72 hours to the magistrate of that same court André Mendonça to respond to the request presented by the Attorney General's Office (Attorney General of the Union). The objective of this petition is...
The transactional market of Brazil recorded until the month of August a total of 834 mergers and acquisitions operations, for a combined value of 210.700 billion reais (35.377 billion euros). This figure represents a decrease of 31% in the number of transactions, but at the same time an increase of...
The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil has resolved this Tuesday to provisionally suspend the director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, and the head of Intelligence of the body, Leandro Almada da Costa, for the confidential preparation of at least six internal reports about one of the magistrates of...
The senator and far-right presidential candidate of Brazil, Flávio Bolsonaro, has attempted this Monday to link his main opponent at the polls and current occupant of the Palácio do Planalto, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with the Supreme Court magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, immersed in a controversy over an alleged...
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has claimed this Monday the full sovereignty of the country on the occasion of Independence Day, emphasizing that Brazil is not a "colony" and that no external actor can decide on its natural resources or impose whom it should maintain trade...
A court in Brazil has ordered the suspension of the environmental licenses of Sigma Mineração SA, a subsidiary of Sigma Lithium Corp., and has decreed the immediate cessation of all extraction activities at the Grota do Cirilo project, considered one of the most relevant lithium deposits in the country.The judicial...
The president of the Supreme Court of Brazil, Edson Fachin, assured this Friday that the Judiciary will respond strictly to legality within the framework of the 'Banco Master case', the investigation into alleged irregularities and the leak of messages between Judge De Moraes and the investigated banker Daniel Vorcaro. At...
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, claimed this Thursday that "it is essential that everyone is investigated" in the Banco Master scandal "without shielding anyone, no matter who it hurts," after the contacts between the former head of the entity, Daniel Vorcaro, and the magistrate of the...
Fraport, through its subsidiary Fraport Brasil Aeroporto de Fortaleza, has officially taken the reins of the management of Jericoacoara Airport, located in the northeast of Brazil. With this incorporation, the company is now responsible for three aerodromes in Brazilian territory, as reported in a statement.The new concession is integrated into...
The Senate of Brazil has given this Wednesday the definitive green light to a bill that launches a National Policy for Critical and Strategic Minerals (PNMCE), endowed with 7 billion reais (1.187 billion euros) in the form of investments and public aid, with which the country seeks to contest China's...
The president of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, Edson Fachin, assured this Wednesday that he will examine the accusations directed against the magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, after messages he allegedly exchanged with the former president of the now-liquidated Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro, currently under investigation for financial fraud, were...
The industrial production of Brazil registered in July an advance of 0.2%, putting an end to two consecutive months of declines, after the contractions of 0.9% in May and 1.6% in June, according to the data published this Wednesday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).Despite this slight...
The Union of Agricultural Sectorial Organizations of Asturias (Usaga) has issued a statement in which it attacks the European Commission for having given the green light to the provisional application of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement while doubts about the guarantees that Brazil would meet certain European requirements remained unresolved. The...
The Agrarian Association-Young Farmers (Asaja) has expressed its satisfaction with the suspension of beef purchases from Brazil, a decision by the European Commission that comes into effect this September 3 after confirming that the South American country was violating community regulations on the use of antimicrobials.The agrarian organization interprets this...
The energy company Cox has started the operation of the Itararé II-Capão Bonito transmission line, located in the state of São Paulo (Brazil), an infrastructure in which it has invested nearly 62 million euros and whose commissioning has occurred 24 months ahead of the schedule set in the original timeline,...
Union of Unions of Farmers and Ranchers has labeled the European Commission as "irresponsible" for having launched the provisional application of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement while doubts about Brazil's compliance with certain European standards still existed. The organization criticizes that now, since September 3, imports of several Brazilian products, including...
The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of Brazil has ordered the suspension of part of the electoral campaign of the far-right candidate Renan Santos, from the Missao party, on Monday, after detecting irregularities in the registration of his social media profiles before the electoral Justice.The TSE magistrate, Dias Toffoli, has pointed...
The Provincial Court of Almería has imposed sentences on five members of an organization that coordinated to introduce about 200 kilos of cocaine from Brazil through the port of Algeciras (Cádiz) and transport it to El Ejido (Almería), camouflaged in a shipment of frozen soursop pulp.According to the ruling, which...