Brazil - Page 7

Rio Olympic venues six months later ... it's not pretty

Brazilian police have arrested nearly 40 people for drug trafficking offences in central Sao Paulo where crack cocaine has been sold and consumed freely for years.

A Brazilian judge has revealed the names of dozens of politicians to be investigated over alleged involvement in a huge bribery scandal.

Brazil has been in recession for two years, the latest figures show, marking the deepest economic decline since records began.

The governor of Amazonas, the state in northern Brazil where at least 64 inmates have been killed in prison riots since 1 January, has asked the federal government for help.

Police in northern Brazil are searching for dozens of inmates who escaped from an overcrowded prison complex during a riot that left 56 dead, officials say.

A supreme court judge in Brazil on Monday suspended the Senate's powerful speaker, a key ally to President Michel Temer, before he goes on trial for alleged corruption.

Brazil legend Carlos Alberto, the captain of the 1970 World Cup-winning side, has died aged 72.

A GIGANTIC 10-metre-long anaconda has been found by terrified builders on a construction site in Brazil.

Thousands of people in Brazil have attended the funeral of soap opera star Domingos Montagner who died in tragic circumstances on Thursday.

In 1992, senators and MPs in Brazil's Congress came together to impeach the country's first democratically elected president in almost 30 years.

Brazil's Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget.

Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff has defended her record during her impeachment trial in the Senate.

ALL eyes were on Rio as an action-packed Games drew to a close today.

Rousseff was suspended in May pending her impeachment trial in the Senate on accusations she doctored the fiscal accounts to get re-elected in 2014.

AS THE world’s finest athletes swim, run and tumble their way across the world stage, a crisis is looming in Brazil.

Rousseff has denied any wrongdoing and her defenders argued that right-wing legislators were using an accounting error to end 13 years of rule by Rousseff's Worker's Party.

A Senate impeachment committee voted on Thursday to put suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on trial in the full chamber for breaking budget laws, opening the way for her to be removed from office.

The mother-in-law of F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, who was kidnapped in Brazil, has been freed unharmed without any ransom being paid, say police.

Police have voiced concerns over pay, and there have been open strikes in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics. 85,000 security forces in total are still expected to be present when the competition begins on Wednesday