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By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - At least three people have died following flooding in Petrópolis, in Rio de Janeiro state’s mountainous...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - The Catholic Church yesterday made history by selecting its first Latin American pope. The selection of...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – Rodrigo Neto, a Minas Gerais crime reporter has become the third journalist to be killed so...

By Lucy Jordan and Leo Byrne, Contributing Reporters RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After some five hours of impassioned speeches and spirited debate, Brazil’s Congress...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - The number of people murdered in Brazil over land and environmental disputes rose by more than...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – Following three consecutive months of increasing domestic oil production, state-controlled oil giant Petrobras reported decreased output...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – In an attempt to tackle Brazil’s growing crack epidemic, the city of Rio de Janeiro has...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – Seven violent attacks were reported in the southern Brazil state of Santa Catarina on Monday night,...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – The United States government has sent special medication to Brazil to treat survivors of a nightclub...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - Continued financial turmoil in Europe is likely to diminish numbers of foreign visitors to Rio during...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - At least 232 people have died in a nightclub fire in central Rio Grande do Sul,...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – President Dilma Rousseff said Monday that the government had made strides in stemming the flow of...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - Twitter is set to open a Brazil office in an attempt to monetize its base of...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – New research shows nearly three-quarters of Brazilians are in favor of continuing the Bolsa Família, an...