600, 000 people while unemployment and inflation run into double-digits.( Reporting by Anthony Boadle

BRASILIA( Reuters)-Brazilian search teams found" apparently human" organic material in a river where British journalist Dom Phillips disappeared on Sunday along with a Brazilian indigenous tribes expert, federal police said on Friday. Police also said in a statement that they had collected genetic material from the missing journalist and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to compare with blood found on the boat of a fisherman who is being held as a suspect in the investigation.( Reporting by Anthon

BRASILIA( Reuters)-Brazil has had 24, 611 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 648 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Thursday.... The South American country has now registered 21, 308, 178 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 592, 964, according to ministry data, in the world's third worst outbreak outside the United States and India and its second-deadliest after the United States.... As vaccination advance

BRASILIA( Reuters)-Ten people died in the dramatic collapse of a canyon rock face on top of motor boats visiting a waterfall in southeastern Brazil, rescuers said on Sunday.A tower of rocks suddenly broke away from the canyon wall on Saturday and came crashing down, crushing one of the leisure boats at Capitolio in Minas Gerais state.... Shocking video images circulated on social media.... On Saturday, a dike overflowed at an iron ore mine 300 kilometers to the east, cutting off a major federa

BRASILIA( Reuters)-Indigenous activists delivered a Jatoba tree to Norway's embassy in Brasilia on Tuesday, seeking" refugee" status for it in a symbolic protest against the destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. The protest coincided with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at the United Nations General Assembly defending what he described as his government's fight against deforestation of the rainforest. The protest was staged by an indigenous umbrella organization, the Articulation of Indi

BRASILIA( Reuters)-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom he met this week in New York, asked him for an" emergency" agreement to supply a food product that is lacking in Britain.... Bolsonaro, speaking on his weekly webcast to supporters, did not name the product, but said he had passed Johnson's request to his Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina." He wants an emergency agreement with us to import some kind of food that is lacking i

BRASILIA( Reuters)-Brazil on Tuesday defended its decision to allow British military planes flying to the Falklands Islands to stop at Brazilian airports, landings that annoyed Argentina. The Brazilian Foreign Ministry said in a note to Reuters that while it backed Argentina's sovereignty claims over the islands, that support does no affect its" important partnership" with Britain.... Argentina's ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, last week complained over the increase in flights stopping in

BRASILIA( Reuters)-Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro accused two members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday of taking sides in this year's election and favoring leftists leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has railed at justices Luis Roberto Barroso and Alexandre de Moraes for months over rulings against his policies and investigations into the president, including one for spreading fake news over COVID-19." Barroso and Alexandre de Moraes want Lula to be president," he said in

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadFILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro reacts during a ceremony to sanction the bill that create the Federal Regional Court, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil October 20, 2021.... REUTERS/ Ueslei Marcelino/ File Photo RIO DE JANEIRO( Reuters)-Facebook late on Sunday removed a video by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from its platforms, in which the far-right leader made a false claim that COVID-19 vaccines were linked with developing AIDS.“ Our polic

BRASILIA( Reuters)-Brazil's Senate on Thursday passed the main text of a constitutional amendment that will ease the government's spending cap and open room for a larger welfare program.It also allows the government to stagger payments of court-ordered debts to avoid breaking the constitutional spending cap in 2022, an election year. The amendment was approved in two votes and sent back to the lower house for final passage as it was altered in the Senate. The bill allows President Jair Bolsonaro