Tag: Brazil

Brazil primed for home Copa triumph, wary of upset threat

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil have lifted the trophy every time they have hosted the Copa America and will look to maintain this perfect record...

Fans can help Brazil at home of 7-1 embarrassment, says coach

BELO HORIZONTE: Brazilian fans will be vital to lifting the team when they return to the site of their worst defeat in this week’s...

‘Little onion’ Everton making Brazilians cry with joy at Copa

When Neymar was ruled out of the Copa America with an ankle injury just over a week before the big kick-off, there was reason...

Illegal logging in Brazil turns Amazon into a powder keg

RIO: A rifle resting on his shoulder, Tatji Arara looks despondent as he steps over the trunks of huge trees felled by timber traffickers...

Brazil football legend Pele released from hospital: report

SAO PAULO: Football great Pele has been released from hospital in Paris and will return to Brazil in the "coming hours," Brazilian media reported...

Trump says strongly considering NATO membership for Brazil

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was strongly considering NATO membership for Brazil as he welcomed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to...

Flamengo fire victims were all aged between 14 and 17

RIO DE JANEIRO: bodies of the 10 victims of a fire that ravaged accommodation for youth players at Rio club Flamengo have been identified,...

Toll in Brazil dam disaster rises to 121 dead, 226 missing

BRUMADINHO: The toll from a dam collapse last week at a mine in southeast Brazil has risen to 121 dead and 226 missing, according...

58 dead as firefighters search mud on third day after Brazil...

RIO: Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that...

Hundreds missing in Brazil, 34 found dead, after Vale dam burst

BRUMADINHO: Brazilian rescue workers halted searches for the night on Saturday for hundreds of people missing and feared dead under a sea of mud...

Ronaldo would support Valladolid playing La Liga games abroad

TURIN: Ronaldo, the former Brazil striker and current majority shareholder of Real Valladolid, has said he would be in favour of the club playing...

At least 12 dead in Brazil bank robbery shootout: officials

BRASILIA: At least 12 people were killed on Friday, including six policemen, in an early morning shootout between police and bank robbers in a...

Far right candidate wins Brazil presidential poll

BRASILIA: Far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, promising to clean up politics, shrink the state and crack down on crime,...

First ever Dwarf Copa America tackles prejudice

BUENOS AIRES: The first Dwarf Copa America has started in Buenos Aires with the goal of using football to tackle social prejudices. Teams from Chile,...

Facebook’s WhatsApp flooded with fake news in Brazil election

BRASILIA: Facebook Inc’s popular messaging service WhatsApp has become a political battleground in Brazil’s most polarized election in decades, raising concerns that it is...

Brazil electoral court bars Lula from presidential race

BRASILIA: Brazil's top electoral court on Friday barred jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in this year's presidential because of...

Brazil’s Lula should have political rights: UN

  SAO PAULO: The UN Human Rights Committee on Friday said it had requested that the Brazilian government allow imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio Lula...