World Brazilian nun wins UN refugee prize Geneva — Brazilian nun Sister Rosita Milesi on Wednesday won the United Nations refugee agency’s Nansen Award for decades... Read more 9 Oct
Technology Brazil judge threatens to suspend X within 24 hours Sao Paulo — Brazil’s Supreme Court threatened on Wednesday to suspend social media platform X unless billionaire owner Elon... Read more 29 Aug
World All 62 bodies recovered from Brazil plane crash wreckage Brazil — Brazilian authorities on Saturday finished recovering the bodies of the 62 people who died when their plane... Read more 12 Aug
Countries PICS | Brazilian drug mule caught with R1m worth of cocaine at OR Tambo Cape Town — Police in Johannesburg caught and arrested a suspected drug mule who was travelling with cocaine at... Read more 31 Jul
Technology Brazil requires Meta to stop taking user data to train AI Cape Town — Brazil on Tuesday demanded Meta cease taking users’ data to train its generative AI models, a... Read more 3 Jul
Technology Google to test AI phone theft features in Brazil Rio De Janeiro — Google said it has chosen Brazil, a country where nearly two cellphones are pilfered every... Read more 13 Jun
Technology Women in tech, AI in focus as Web Summit opens in Rio Rio De Janeiro — The future of artificial intelligence (AI), technology to fight climate change and other glimpses at... Read more 17 Apr
World Toyota to invest $2.2 bn in Brazil hybrid production Tokyo – Japanese auto giant Toyota said Wednesday that it plans to invest 11 billion reais ($2.2 billion) in... Read more 6 Mar
World 130 poisonous frogs seized at Bogota airport Bogotá – Authorities in Colombia seized 130 poisonous frogs being trafficked through the Bogota airport on Monday and arrested... Read more 30 Jan
World Brazil’s Indigenous Yanomami again face illegal mining-linked crisis Boa Vista – The Yanomami Indigenous group are again facing a severe humanitarian crisis blamed on illegal gold miners,... Read more 18 Jan