Walmart has agreed to fork over roughly $138 million in criminal penalties to settle claims by the Justice Department that one of its subsidiaries in Brazil paid a “sorceress” over $500,000 in bribes to make permitting problems go away.
Read moreFarmers in the United States use 72 pesticides banned in the European Union, 17 agricultural substances outlawed in China and 11 pesticides no longer allowed in Brazil, the Center for Biological Diversity revealed in research published Thursday.
Read moreOnce the global leaders in land conservation, the United States and Brazil are now scaling back legal protections for national parks and other lands at an alarming pace – compromising efforts to conserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change, a new study suggests.
Read moreForty-two inmates were killed at three prisons in the capital of Brazil’s northern Amazonas state Monday, authorities said, a day after 15 died during fighting among prisoners at a fourth prison in the city.
Read moreSwiss prosecutors say they have returned some $365 million to Brazil so far in funds seized during investigations related to Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and state-run oil giant Petrobras.
Read moreFormer Brazilian President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday on corruption charges, a dramatic development in a sprawling corruption probe that has roiled Brazil has showed no sign of slowing.
Read moreThe president of Brazil made an unusual visit to CIA headquarters and later spoke of his admiration for the United States on the second day of a trip that reflected his country’s shift to a pro-American stance.
Read morePolice on Tuesday arrested two suspects in the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver, a brazen assassination that shocked and angered Brazilians and sparked protests in several countries.
Read moreA fire tore through the sleeping quarters of a development league for one of Brazil’s most popular professional soccer clubs on Friday, killing 10 people who were most likely players and injuring three others, authorities said.
Read moreBrazilian authorities issued arrest warrants Tuesday for five people in connection with a dam collapse that killed at least 65 people and left nearly 300 missing as it plastered part of a small city with reddish-brown mud and iron ore mining waste.
Read moreFirefighters on Monday carefully moved over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies, four days after a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste.
Read moreBrazilian doctors are reporting the world’s first baby born to a woman with a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor.
Read moreA class action claims an international health organization conspired with the Cuban government to collect millions of dollars by unlawfully trafficking Cuban doctors to Brazil.
Read moreThe governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro was arrested on Thursday for allegedly taking about $10 million in bribes since 2007, adding to a string of corruption arrests of senior political figures.
Read moreFor the last 4,000 years, termites in northeastern Brazil have been busy building their home: 200 million cone-shaped mounds that can be seen from space.
Read moreBy PETER PRENGAMAN, SARAH DILORENZO and MAURICIO SAVARESE RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilians showed their disgust with corruption and
Read morePetrobras, the Brazilian oil giant at the center of a giant political corruption scandal, reached a $1.8 billion settlement Wednesday to resolve bribery and bid-rigging allegations from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read moreA federal judge ordered a four-year prison sentence Wednesday for Jose Maria Marin, the former boss of Brazilian soccer who went to trial and lost in the U.S. government’s crackdown on FIFA corruption.
Read moreU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday will list the hyacinth macaw, a bird that lives mostly in Brazil, as endangered due to habitat loss from deforestation in the Amazon and climate change.
Read moreBoeing and the Brazilian jet maker Embraer will attempt to form a joint venture that would push the U.S. aerospace giant more aggressively into the regional aircraft market.
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