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Nearly 300 employers in South America's biggest country submit workers to slave-like conditions, Brazil's Labor Ministry said Tuesday.
A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed a petition Thursday seeking to annul the residency visa granted to a former leftist rebel from Italy convicted in his homeland of four murders carried out in the late 1970s.
Police say a law professor shot and killed one of his female students in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia and hours later drove her body to a police station where he turned himself in.
A Brazilian judge has suspended work on a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon jungle, saying it would harm fishing activities on the Xingu River.
A court has ordered Brazil's second-largest airline to plant trees near Sao Paulo's international airport to compensate for pollution caused by its passenger jets.
Police say four gunmen intercepted a van and a microbus carrying seven U.S. citizens, one Canadian and 10 Brazilians working for a company that provides services to Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras.
Suspected Peruvian drug traffickers recently overran a base of the National Indian Foundation in a remote region of Brazil's Amazon, the foundation said Tuesday.
A source at a Brazilian hospital says Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected at the institution to begin treatment for cancer.
The World Bank and 40 cities from around the world joined forces Wednesday with a pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
An iron manhole cover ejected by an underground power explosion soared feet into the air and then smashed into a taxi, injuring its driver in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
It was well past midnight when the Brazilian surgeon says he was escorted deep inside a bunker in the Libyan capital.
In a March 22 story, The Associated Press reported the death of Raimundo Carneiro Ribeiro Filho, who along with his wife sought visitation rights of his 10-year-old grandson in the U.S. and was blocked by a U.S. court from seeing the boy, who was the center of a bitter international custody dispute.
An Al-Jazeera cameraman was killed in an ambush near the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday, the first journalist slain in the nearly month-long conflict, the satellite station said.
Dengue cases have risen sharply in at least one key Brazil state, officials said Thursday, building on a steady increase over the past year nationwide.
A man has been arrested for allegedly keeping his wife locked for eight years in the dark, dank cellar of their home in southeastern Brazil, police said Thursday.
The office of Brazil's attorney general says it is analyzing a series of messages posted on Twitter calling for the death of President Dilma Rousseff.
The 2009 crash of a stolen plane near the capital city of Brasilia exposed Brazil's vulnerability to terrorist acts, said a U.S. diplomatic cable released Sunday by WikiLeaks.
Military records indicate that President-elect Dilma Rousseff once oversaw a cache of weapons and ammunition for militants who opposed Brazil's 1964-1985 military regime, a major newspaper reported Saturday.
Grumpy the clown won election in a laugher, getting more votes than any other candidate for Brazil's Congress. Now he has to prove that he can read and write.
A military court convicted an air traffic controller for his role in the 2006 collision of a Brazilian airliner and a business jet that killed 154 people, Brazil's official news service said Wednesday.
A veteran reporter who had often received death threats for his reports on crime was gunned down in front of his house in northeastern Brazil, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
A city in southern Brazil that has suffered a series of neo-Nazi incidents is requiring all public schools to teach about the Holocaust.
The private college that expelled a student who wore a short, pink dress to class has been ordered to pay her more than US$20,000 in compensation, a court announced Wednesday.
The clown who got more votes than any other candidate for Congress will have to convince authorities he can read and write if he wants to take office.
Police say they have caught a Roman Catholic priest who disappeared after he was convicted of sexually abusing young girls in southern Brazil.
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