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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — For most of this month, intensive care units across Brazil were at or near capacity amid a crush of COVID-19 patients, and sedatives needed to intubate patients dwindled. The nation’s biggest cemetery had so many corpses to bury that gravediggers worked hours past sundown. But…

A Senate inquiry into the Brazilian government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic kicked off on Tuesday, with lawmakers launching what may be a major headache for President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of next year's election. Nearly 400,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Brazil, the second-highest death toll in the world…

It sounds a lot like extortion: After more than two years denying that runaway deforestation in the Amazon is a real problem, the Brazilian government now says it will protect the rain forest if the United States ponies up. Wednesday, on the eve of Joe Biden’s virtual climate summit with…

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The Biden administration offered new details this morning about the big, virtual climate summit Thursday and Friday and signaled they expect new emissions reduction and climate finance commitments from multiple countries. Driving the news: The administration said 40 heads of state would attend, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and President…

Please try another search EconomyApr 20, 2021 09:55AM ET © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's Central Bank President Campos speaks at a media statement in Brasilia BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday appointed central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto and seven directors to fulfill their fixed-term mandates on…

Brazilians were on edge after all three leaders of Brazil's armed forces resigned on Tuesday, raising concerns that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is looking to consolidate control. "Since 1985, we haven't had news of such clear intervention of the president with regard to the armed forces," Carlos Melo, a political…

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SÃO PAULO—Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro unveiled a deep cabinet reshuffle Monday as his administration comes under intense pressure with Covid-19 raging out of control in the country, killing more than a hundred Brazilians an hour. Mr. Bolsonaro announced the exit of combative Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo after swaths of Congress…