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Detectives looking for a missing British journalist in Brazil have announced that her phone is still turned on, while her family is urging the police to intensify their search efforts.

British journalist Charlotte Peet, 32, has been reported missing in Brazil after telling a friend she was heading towards Rio de Janeiro and needed a place to stay

A woman accused of killing three members of her family with an arsenic-laced Christmas cake was found dead in her prison cell in Brazil.

The two victims of a plane crash in Brazil’s biggest city are an influencer and the pilot he hired to fly him around, according to local media.

Alex Bruno Silva dos Santos, 28, and Maria Leticia Sousa da Silva, 26, were kidnapped from their home in Brazil by four men dressed as police and later found murdered

Brazilian beef has long been mired in controversy as a top cause of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, a critical line of defence against climate breakdown.

The workers who traveled from China to northeast Brazil to build a new factory for electric car maker BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab earned roughly $70 per 10-hour shift, over twice the Chinese hourly minimum wage in many regions. For many, that made signing up an easy decision - but getting out would be much harder.

The arrest of a four-star general in Brazil over the weekend shows courts are ready to play hardball with those accused of plotting to violently overturn election results, breaking with the impunity that shadowed nearly a century of military coups.

In July 2023, Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor who also worked as a real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested for the illegal export of 294 kilos of gold. The gold, sourced from Brazil’s Amazon, was smuggled to destinations including the United States, Dubai, and Italy.

There are more than 500 WWII wrecks off the coast of Brazil, some containing valuable metals. Researchers warn that the hunt for these resources could cause massive oil spills.

A multiagency force of federal and state authorities in Brazil dismantled communication towers and illegal cellphone shops, as organized crime embraces technology to further its criminal pursuits.

A plane carrying 62 people has crashed in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, local media reported.

Report into ‘Jewellerygate’ scandal alleges former president involved in embezzlement of high-value gifts received from foreign leaders

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