Brazil

Dozens of Chinese workers have been taken and put up in hotels in Brazil’s tropical northeastern region after local labor authorities found them at a construction site for electric vehicle automaker BYD.

Brazil’s Civil Defense Agency says a small plane has crashed into a Brazilian town that’s popular with tourists and killed all 10 passengers and crew on board.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has undergone emergency surgery to drain a bleed on his brain.

Brazil’s federal police said Thursday they indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people for allegedly attempting a coup to keep him in office after his defeat in the 2022 elections.

The massive Amazon — it’s about the size of Australia — stores huge amounts of the world’s carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas driving climate change, even as it’s rapidly deforested.

A man who failed in an attempt to break into Brazil’s Supreme Court killed himself in explosions outside the building Wednesday that forced justices and staff to evacuate, authorities said.

In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 square miles), roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware.

A three-year-old border collie named Floki has been teaching people how to play footvolley on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A few thousand supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have begun flooding Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally.

Venezuela’s government has revoked permission for Brazil to serve as custodian of Argentina’s diplomatic missions in the country, alleging that several anti-government opponents holed up for months in the Argentine ambassador’s residence had been plotting terrorist acts from the compound.

Investigators say the pilots of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed last month, killing all 62 people aboard, reported failure in the system to remove ice from the plane.

NBC10’s Erin Coleman gets a workout while getting a Samba lesson from Brazilian dance instructor Fatima Peters and percussionist Pablo Batista ahead of the Eagles playing in the South American country.

Jalen Hurts and Jordan Love are hard to miss in the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo, with their faces gazing skyward as part of a 108-foot-high mural on the side of a downtown building.

Fans are bringing a little bit of Philadelphia to Sao Paulo, Brazil, as the excitement builds around the home opener. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville has more. 

It’s strange that the Philadelphia Eagles’ 2024 home opener is happening in Brazil, not South Philadelphia. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia finds out how it’s all about global growth of American football.

NBC10’s Siobhan McGirl is outside Lincoln Financial Field Wednesday morning as the Philadelphia Eagles prepare to fly to Brazil for the first-ever NFL game there.

Following Brazil’s recent ban of Elon Musk’s X platform, its users in the country appear to switching over to rival platforms.

More than 40 families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil have gathered at a morgue and hotels in Sao Paulo as three French government investigators arrived in the country.

Brazilian rescue teams have retrieved the remains of all 62 passengers from the wreckage of a plane crash in Sao Paulo state as families began gathering in the metropolis to identify and bury their loved ones. Local airline Voepass’ plane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport in Guarulhos with 58 passengers and four crew...

Brazilian airline VoePass confirmed the accident in a statement, saying the plane crashed with 58 passengers and 4 crew members aboard.