Dom Phillips
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 15:06
Brazil is revising its security for next month’s Summer Olympic Games in the wake of the attack in Nice, France, that killed 84 people, officials said as they carried out the latest in a series of counterterrorism exercises.
Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 07:01
Authorities insist that the Olympic Games will be safe for visitors, with 85,000 armed troops and police guarding Rio’s streets.
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 06:48
Police broke up fights between opposing groups of demonstrators outside Brazil’s National Congress building and protests flared in other cities Thursday as the country descended into political chaos amid a standoff between the judiciary and the government.
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 06:56
Tens of thousands of Brazilians protested corruption and called for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in demonstrations across the country Sunday. But the numbers were down from nationwide protests staged three times earlier this year.
Monday, August 17, 2015 - 11:28
Brandishing flags and blowing horns and whistles, hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded cities across Brazil on Sunday to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and an end to corruption. There were demonstrations in cities in all of Brazil’s states and its capital, Brasilia.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 00:00
The country’s truth commission is increasingly generating interest as former officials defend their actions nearly three decades after the dictatorship ended.
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 00:00
Judges and public grow impatient at legal wranglings of ex-president Lula's aides, found guilty of graft last year.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 00:00
The last nine favela fires had occurred in areas in which just seven percent of the city's 1,565 favelas are situated.
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 00:00
Could one of the most powerful figures in Brazil's ruling Workers' Party go to jail?
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 00:00
Papers show that Brazil's secret service spied on both Dilma Rousseff, now the president, and her mentor and predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, from the time democracy was restored until the early 1990s.