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By Reuters Staff1 Min ReadBRASILIA, June 22 (Reuters) - Brazil’s lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia on Monday said Congress is likely to vote new environmental licensing bill in August, following long-running demands from the country’s agricultural sector.Maia added that the existing rules are burdensome and hold back investments in the…

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The governor of the federal district in which Brazil’s capital Brasilia is located closed the area around the presidential palace, ministries, Supreme Court and Congress on Sunday to keep right-wing supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro from gathering there. Governor Ibaneis Rocha forbade car and pedestrian…

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The governor of the federal district in which Brazil’s capital Brasilia is located closed the area around the presidential palace, ministries, Supreme Court and Congress on Sunday to keep right-wing supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro from gathering there. Governor Ibaneis Rocha forbade car and pedestrian…

By: Reuters | Brasilia | Published: June 10, 2020 7:16:14 am Health personnel work in a field hospital built inside a gym to treat COVID-19 patients in Santo Andre, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil (AP Photo/Andre Penner)Brazil on Tuesday restored detailed COVID-19 data to its official national website…

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Eduardo SimõesBRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil on Tuesday restored detailed COVID-19 data to its official national website following controversy over the removal of cumulative totals and a ruling by a Supreme Court justice that the full set of information be reinstated.The move came after days of…

FILE PHOTO: People stand in line at the central bus station in Brasilia, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brazil June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File PhotoBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil reported a total of 37,134 deaths due to coronavirus and 707,412 confirmed cases as of Monday, according to the Council…

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus. A new Brazilian record for daily…

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo BritoBRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned Latin American governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus throughout the region.A new Brazilian…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - One of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks, a paralyzed economy sending investors fleeing for the exit, and accusations that he has undermined Brazil’s young democracy have not loosened President Jair Bolsonaro’s grip on power. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro arrives to the inauguration ceremony of a temporary field…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian states are bolstering the fight against destruction of the Amazon rainforest with millions of dollars from an oil company’s corruption settlement that allows them to partially compensate for weakening environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro. FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of a tract of Amazon jungle…