Brazil has criticized a new U.S. tariff on certain Brazilian imports and says it plans to impose reciprocal tariffs.

The United States is imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil after finding a range of what it deemed unfair trade practices by the world’s 10th-biggest economy.

World leaders and Venezuela related celebrities are reacting with offers and solidarity after two powerful earthquakes shook the South American nation on Wednesday, killing at least 164 people, injuring more than 1,000 and trapping many beneath collapsed buildings.

Abelardo de la Espriella, set to be Colombia’s president, has intensified debate over the future of the Amazon.

Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted former lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro on Tuesday for coercion.

U.S. President Donald Trump is in France this week for a G7 summit.

The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable’’ and that “burden or restrict U.S. commerce.

The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics.

Brazil was set to join other Latin American countries that have shortened working hours as the lower house approved a constitutional amendment establishing a 40-hour, five-day workweek.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to discuss organized crime and tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Brazil’s finance minister.

President Donald Trump will host Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday for talks about shared economic and security issues.

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.

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The long-awaited trade deal between the South American bloc Mercosur and the European Union is finally on, at least provisionally.

The Russian Defense Ministry says the traditional Victory Day parade will take place without military equipment.

Brazil’s Vice President Geraldo Alckmin says the trade deal between South American bloc Mercosur and the European Union offers some solace at a time when unilateral moves have dominated the geopolitical landscape.

Oscar Schmidt, the Basketball Hall of Famer known to his Brazilian compatriots as the “Holy Hand,” died Friday.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has started a two-day visit to Spain on Friday when he and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez met a day before they will gather with other leaders who are concerned with the fate of the democratic order and the rise of the populist far right.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will once again have his past rival and current Vice President Geraldo Alckmin as his running mate for his reelection bid.

Paraguay has ratified the Mercosur and European Union free trade deal to complete South America’s approval of a huge new trade zone.

Floods in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state have killed at least 46 people and forced thousands from their homes.

A private Indian university has been booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi after one of its staffers displayed a a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university’s own innovation.

India is hosting a major AI summit in New Delhi this week, as it pushes to shape global rules and show its own AI ambitions.

Brazilians are celebrating the nomination of “The Secret Agent” for four Oscar categories, highlighting the rise of Brazilian cinema.

The U.S. capture and ouster of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro marked a stunning culmination of the Trump administration’s efforts to assert dominance in Latin America.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's family says he's underwent double hernia surgery at a hospital in the country's capital.

Brazil's President Lula da Silva hopes the Mercosur-EU free-trade deal will be signed in January, after it was delayed on Friday.

The Brazilian film “The Secret Agent” is opening nationwide in U.S. theaters.

The European Commission says the European Union is delaying a massive free-trade deal with South American countries after fiery protests by farmers and last-minute opposition by France and Italy.

The U.S. has removed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has told a judge Sunday he violated his ankle monitor due to a nervous breakdown and hallucinations.

For years, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, along with many climate experts, had high hopes for the U.N. climate talks that just finished in Brazil.

Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro is preparing to serve a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup.

United Nations climate talks in Brazil have reached a subdued agreement to deliver more money to countries hit hardest by climate change to help them adapt to the wrath of extreme weather.

Brazil's Vice President Geraldo Alckmin says U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to remove additional import tariffs on some Brazilian agribusiness products marks significant progress.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia says she is resigning from Congress in January.

The United Nations climate talks in Brazil are near the end and there's no sign of major agreement.

Fire has disrupted United Nations climate talks, forcing evacuations of several buildings with just two scheduled days left and negotiators yet to announce any major agreements.

The return of Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to UN climate talks was hoped to spur nations to meet a self-imposed early deadline for progress on tough issues.

Brazilian authorities have raged against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

United Nations climate talks are bubbling to a critical point, with host Brazil pressing negotiators to make progress on key issues.

Jamaica has joined other small island nations at the United Nations climate talks to urge immediate action on climate change.

At the halfway point of annual United Nations climate negotiations in Brazil, it appears the talks may do more than just focus on implementing past promises, as some observers had expected.

Brazil’s federal police have formally accused former human rights minister Silvio Almeida of sexual misconduct.

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference Friday to send Japan a message: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and elsewhere.

The U.S. Senate is drawing closer to ending the U.S. government shutdown.

European, Latin American, and Caribbean nations have started a two-day summit in Colombia to strengthen ties.

A powerful tornado in Brazil's southern state of Parana has killed six people and injured hundreds of others.

Most justices on Brazil's Supreme Court panel have rejected former President Jair Bolsonaro’s appeal.

Brazil has unveiled long-awaited details about a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it had already drawn $5.5 billion in financial pledges.

World leaders gathering the in Brazil's Amazon rainforest for the U.N.‘s annual climate summit warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive action to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

Ten years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the Indigenous Krenak people are still mourning what they call “the death of the river.”.

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a major fund that will pay countries to keep their forests standing.

Hundreds of protesters have marched through Vila Cruzeiro favela, demanding the resignation of Rio de Janeiro state Gov. Cláudio Castro.

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead is drawing protests for excessive force and calls for the Rio de Janeiro’s governor to resign.

Lawyers for Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro have filed an appeal to reduce his prison sentence for attempting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has urged Asia-Pacific leaders to prioritize dialogue and cooperation over coercion and confrontation.

President Donald Trump is heading to Asia for his first trip since taking office in January.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira to an in-person meeting.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has met with the heavily prosecuted vice president of Equatorial Guinea in Washington after the Trump administration approved a waiver of corruption sanctions.

Brazil’s president said he was as surprised as U.S. President Donald Trump when they met by chance and “there was some chemistry,” given the deteriorating relations between the two largest economies in the Americas.

Brazil's President Lula da Silva used his speech at the United Nations General Assembly to criticize unilateral moves by U.S. President Donald Trump.

China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.

Thousands of Brazilians have protested against a possible pardon for former President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, who were convicted of attempting a coup.

President Lula da Silva has called a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports to the U_S_ “political” and “illogical.”.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to over 27 years in prison for attempting a coup.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is one step away from being convicted for attempting a coup, after two Supreme Court justices voted to find the right-wing leader guilty of trying to illegally hang onto power.

The Trump administration has already denied visas for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and his large delegation to attend the U.N. General Assembly later this month.

The verdict and sentencing phase has started in the trial of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Former President Jair Bolsonaro temporarily left house arrest Saturday for medical exams in Brasilia.

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening at a site where East meets West in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence gathering.

Brazil has requested consultations at the World Trade Organization over tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on the South American nation.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has eased a key term of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s house arrest.

President Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on Brazil in defense of the country's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has marked a low point in U.S.-Brazil relations.

Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has said that the court will not yield to sanctions or foreign pressure regarding the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

The U.S. Treasury Department is imposing sanctions on Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

This year's United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure challenges.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that his government has not been successful in trying to negotiate the 50% tariff on Brazilian imports that U.S. President Donald Trump announced earlier this month.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor, his press office has confirmed.

Brazil’s chief prosecutor has called for a guilty verdict in the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, accused of leading a coup plot that sought to overturn the 2022 election result.

In the past week, President Donald Trump has managed to make his erratic trade policies even more baffling to countries desperate to negotiate an escape from his wrath.

President Donald Trump’s threat to boost import taxes by 50% over Brazilian goods could drive up the cost of breakfast in the United States.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if President Donald Trump follows through on a pledge to boost import taxes by 50%.

U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized Brazilian authorities over what he calls “a witch hunt” against former President Jair Bolsonaro.

The BRICS bloc has criticized rising tariffs and attacks on Iran in its latest summit declaration.

Brazil's Supreme Court had a historic moment on Tuesday when it heard a confrontation between an army colonel and general, both disgraced for their involvement in an alleged coup plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in office.

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from environmental and Indigenous groups.

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has testified for the first time before the Supreme Court over an alleged plot to remain in power and overturn the 2022 election result.

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut its green rhetoric, revealing mounting political pressure on the federal environmental agency and widening divisions within President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s cabinet.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law to expand the country’s affirmative action policies.

In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, left-wing presidents from the region have come to remember former President Jose Mujica as a generous and charismatic leader whose legacy of humility remained an example for the world’s politicians.

Crowds have poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-pioneering leader who became an icon of the Latin American left, remembered most for his humility, simple lifestyle and ideological earnestness.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he would try to urge Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week in Turkey.

Russia has celebrated the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, with President Vladimir Putin presiding over a massive parade of tanks, missiles and troops through Red Square.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting heads of states for festivities Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from the hospital three weeks after undergoing surgery for bowel obstruction.

Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro doctors say he has left intensive care but remains hospitalized after undergoing bowel surgery.

Three days of public viewing of Pope Francis’ body by ordinary mourners and statesmen alike have ended and the pontiff's coffin sealed.

A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices has unanimously accepted charges against six more key allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro over allegedly attempting a coup to keep him in office after his 2022 election defeat.