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Brasília (AFP) - President Jair Bolsonaro hit the streets Sunday for a rally with his supporters, ditching his face mask and breaking social distancing measures even as coronavirus cases surged in Brazil.The far-right president arrived at the rally outside the presidential palace in Brasilia in a white surgical mask, but…

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On Wednesday, a police team picked up two men from a luxury condominium by a lake in Brasilia. They also seized posters with photos of heavily-armed men in full military gear, calling for a military coup in Brazil. The suspects had sent a mail, titled “Death sentence to the traitors…

South America is “a new epicentre” of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared, as U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his push to reopen the reeling American economy.Brazil led the surge across South America, its death toll passing 21,000 on Friday from 3,30,000 infections, the third-highest…

Brazil recorded its highest single-day coronavirus death toll on Tuesday: 1,179 fatalities. It was another bleak statistic for the country, which has seen its coronavirus outbreak explode in the past few weeks. As of May 21, Brazil has confirmed more than 291,000 positive cases, the third-highest in the world, and…

Peru's number of confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 100,000, making it the country with the second-highest number of cases in South America after Brazil. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported 106,000 cases globally, the highest in a single day yet, rasing concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in poor nations. China…

Wearing a face mask, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posed for photographs with children plucked out of a crowd of supporters on Sunday, disregarding public health advice aimed at containing one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks. Bolsonaro's latest flouting of social-distancing guidelines came after a month in which he lost…

The United States has accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of failing to obtain information that the world needed to fight COVID-19.  World leaders have spoken at the virtual meeting of the World Health Assembly, as many countries called for an independent probe into the pandemic. Chinese President Xi Jinping says…

Sao Paulo (AFP) - Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he fears a "genocide" in Brazil because of fierce opposition to coronavirus containment measures by current President Jair Bolsonaro, whom he said should be impeached.In an interview with AFP by video conference from his home near Sao Paulo,…