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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress late on Tuesday approved a bill laying out rules for the quarantine of Brazilian nationals returning from China who may be infected with coronavirus, as well as other measures to combat the disease.The measures will be in force as long as the…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil on Tuesday obtained authorization from China to fly two planes to the city of Wuhan at the center of the new coronavirus outbreak to evacuate Brazilian citizens who asked to be repatriated. Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo said …

Lightweight headliners Kevin Lee and Charles Oliveira are featured in the poster for the UFC’s first event in Brazil this year. Welterweight veterans and submission experts Demian Maia and Gilbert Burns are second-billed on the poster, released on Monday by t…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said in a message sent to Congress on Monday that his legislative priorities for the year are tax reform, central bank autonomy, job creation and enacting regulatory framework for public sanitation. Bra…

By: Reuters | Brasilia | Updated: February 1, 2020 10:20:04 am Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed by an attacker on the campaign trail in 2018. (Source: Reuters)Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro visited a hospital in Brasilia on Thursday night…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro visited a hospital in Brasilia on Thursday night, leaving without speaking to reporters, with a source familiar with the matter saying the president had felt discomfort in his abdomen. The source, spea…

By: AP | Updated: January 30, 2020 3:30:28 pm Lucio started his career at Internacional of Porto Alegre in 1997 (File photo)World Cup and Champions League winner Lucio announced his retirement on Wednesday at the age of 41. The Brazilian defender spent the last two years playing for Brasiliense, a…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a program on Tuesday to help tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants settle for the long-term in Brazil. USAID o…

FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is displayed on a screen, at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian antitrust regulator Cade on Monday approved Boeing Co’s purchase of Embraer SA’s commercial aviation division without restrictions, according to a statement…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - At least 46 people have died in Brazil and more than 25,000 have been displaced due to widespread flooding following storms and heavy rains that have swept across the south east of the country, authorities said on Sunday. Most of the casualties were in the state of…