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Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:44:00 GMT
Bolsonaro's party officially questions outcome of elections
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's Liberal Party (PL) called for a partial annulment of the Oct. 30 elections whereby the opposition candidate and former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT)was ...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:30:00 GMT
Brazil back to mandatory facemasks on airplanes and at airports
Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Wednesday approved the return effective Nov. 25 of the mandatory use of face masks in airplanes and airports in a move to reduce the risk of COVID-19 contagion after a signi...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:24:00 GMT
Brazilian experts: Vaccination saved 63,000 in 2021 from COVID-19
Scientists in Brazil said this week that vaccination against COVID-19 had saved the lives of 63,000 of the country's population over 60 years of age, in addition to preventing some 178,000 hospitalizations of people over 60 yea...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:11:00 GMT
Cuban music legend Pablo Milanés dies aged 79
Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés died Monday in Madrid, after being hospitalized for a series of cancer-related infections. He was 79.

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:00:00 GMT
Brazil encouraged with UK larger quota for chicken meat and sugar
Brazil is forecasted to gain a 19.3% larger quota of chicken meat exports to the UK in accordance with the bilateral agreement signed last November 17 at the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to information from the fin...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:44:00 GMT
Lula back home from larynx surgery
Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the Hospital Sírio Libanês in São Paulo after undergoing larynx surgery Sunday for a lesion in his left vocal cord.

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:44:00 GMT
Goldfajn chosen new IDB boss
Brazil's Ilan Goldfajn was elected Sunday as the new head of the Interamerican Development Bank (BID), it was reported in Washington DC.

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:13:00 GMT
Brazilian 2022 exports of soybean estimated to reach 78 million tons, and corn some 40 million tons
Brazil’s soybean exports are expected to reach 78 million tons this year, 9.3% down from 86.3 million tons in 2021, according to the grain exporters’ association Anec. But the figure is 2.5 million tons higher than the prev...

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:33:00 GMT
Brazil a leading power in digitalization of public services, World Bank says
A World Bank study released Sunday in Brasilia showed the largest South American country was second globally among 198 economies in the digitalization of public service structures.

Sat, 19 Nov 2022 10:06:00 GMT
Economy Minister says Brazil's spending cap poorly constructed
Brazil's Economy Minister Paulo Guedes Friday admitted the spending ceiling needed to be pierced because it was poorly constructed, but he insisted that the federal spending cap remains a necessary tool to ensure the stability ...



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