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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro’s government must adopt measures to stop the spread of novel coronavirus to the country’s vulnerable indigenous communities. A majority of the justices voted to give the government 30 days to draw up a plan to reduce the…

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Fires in the Brazilian Amazon increased 28% in July from a year ago, a state agency reported Saturday. The National Institute for Space Research, which is responsible for monitoring Brazil, said it recorded 6,803 fires in the Amazon rainforest last month, compared to 5,318 in the…

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Facebook announced Saturday it has obeyed a Brazilian judge’s order for a worldwide block on the accounts of 12 of President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters who are under investigation for allegedly running a fake news network.Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said Friday night that the company…

(Adds analyst comment) By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA, July 31 (Reuters) - Brazil’s national debt rose to a record 85.5% of gross domestic product and the public sector registered a record $36.5 billion primary deficit in June, the central bank said on Friday, as the COVID-19 crisis hammered the government’s finances.…

FILE PHOTO: The Whatsapp logo and binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s antitrust watchdog is asking Facebook Inc to explain the fee structure for its short-lived payments service launched in June in partnership with card processor Cielo SA,…

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BRASILIA, July 21 (Reuters) - Brazil’s government aims to present further elements of its broad tax reform proposals in 20 to 30 days, federal revenue service chief Jose Barroso Tostes Neto said on Tuesday, noting that plans for payroll tax exemptions are being drawn up. Tostes Neto was answering reporters’…

BRASILIA, July 21 (Reuters) - Brazil’s economy is reacting positively to emergency fiscal and credit measures to cushion the blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, with consumer spending picking up at the margin and energy consumption rebounding, central bank director Bruno Serra said on Tuesday. Serra said the banking system is…

Loading... Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a ceremony to lower the Brazilian National flag down, at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil July 20, 2020. — Reuters picBRASILIA, July 21 — Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro's low approval ratings rose for a third consecutive month, a poll showed yesterday, as…

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale SA said on Friday that a new court decision had suspended 7.9 billion reais ($1.5 billion) in legal deposits that had been previously required in a case related to the collapse of a dam in Brumadinho last year. Reporting by Carolina Mandl; Editing…