A bus carrying Corinthians fans overturned early Sunday in a winding descent from a highway near Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, leaving seven dead and several injured. “There were seven dead and 27 people were taken to hospitals in the region,” Minas Gerais state …
Read More »More than eight rapes committed per hour in 2022 in Brazil, a report says
Brazil recorded more than eight rapes per hour on average in 2022, a record, including 61.4% committed against children under 14, according to a report published Thursday by an NGO. The Brazilian Public Security Forum counted 74,930 rapes last year, an increase of 8.2% compared to 2021. In more than …
Read More »Doctor fired for prescribing ice cream to a child
A doctor has been dismissed for prescribed chocolate ice cream and video game sessions to a 9-year-old child suffering from a sore throat and flu-like symptoms in Brazil. “A 37-year-old mother from Osasco, took her sick child to a state-owned clinic for a checkup”, reports said. “The doctor displayed unprofessional …
Read More »Woman rescued 10 hours after being buried alive in grave
A Brazilian woman spent ten hours in a grave before her cries for help enabled workers at the Visconde do Rio Branco cemetery, about 100 kilometers north of Rio de Janeiro, to save her. The 36-year-old woman told police that she was attacked at her home and beaten up by …
Read More »Jair Bolsonaro hospitalized in the United States
The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is hospitalized in the United States for several days as he has health problems announced his wife. Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro announced that her husband was hospitalized for abdominal problems in a Florida hospital where he had …
Read More »Woman dies after fireworks explode in her clothes
A 38-year-old woman died as she was celebrating with her family on a beach in Praia Grande, Sao Paulo, when an alleged unauthorised firework display took place, in Brazil. A cousin of the victim told the police that she was in the sand strip when the incident occurred, according to the Secretariat of …
Read More »Brazil: Donald Trump calls for the re-election of President Bolsonaro
Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday gave his “fullest support” to the re-election campaign of Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, whom he called a “great man”. “Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the ‘Trump of the Tropics’ as he is nicknamed, has done a great job for the wonderful people of Brazil,” …
Read More »Brazil: Parliament excludes a deputy accused of the assassination of her husband
The Brazilian Congress dismissed from her functions Wednesday, the deputy and evangelical leader Flordelis dos Santos, accused by the courts of having ordered the assassination of her husband in June 2019. The parliamentarian, elected in 2018 under the label of the Social Party democratic (PSD, conservative) and known by its …
Read More »COVID-19: Brazil exceeds 90,000 reported cases in 24 hours
Brazil recorded this Wednesday 90,303 new cases of Covid-19 contamination in 24 hours, a record, as well as 2,648 new deaths, bringing the daily average over the last seven days to 2017, the highest since the start of the pandemic. With these two new records, this country of 212 million …
Read More »Covid-19: a second wave and deadly new variant overwhelm hospitals in Brazil
A second wave of Covid-19 is ripping through Brazil, pushing hospitals and ICUs toward collapse and claiming record numbers of daily deaths. While a new variant of the coronavirus spreads throughout the country, many Brazilians continue to defy mask mandates mobility restrictions following the example of President Jair Bolsonaro, who …
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