Paraguayan Prosecutors Request Suspension of Lawsuit Against Ronaldinho Gaucho
Paraguay's Prosecutor's Office (MP) has lodged a request for a stay of proceedings against Ronaldinho Gaúcho and his brother, Assis....
August 8, 2020Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Covid-19 Milestones: Brazil Nears 100,000 Deaths, 3 Million Cases (August 7th)
Brazil is nearing the 100,000 reported deaths from the novel coronavirus. In the past 24 hours, 1,079 deaths have been...
August 8, 2020
Analysis: Biodiversity Depletion Favors Emergence of New Pandemics
In 1965, the year the current World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom was born, the world's population was 3.32...
August 7, 2020
Ceará State Researchers Mobilize to Ship Tilapia Skin to Lebanon to Treat Burn Victims of Explosion
Researchers of the Tilapia Skin Project, of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), are conducting a campaign to sensitize the...
August 7, 2020
Brazil’s Unemployment Rate Rises to 13.3 Percent in Q2, Says IBGE
The unemployment rate rose to 13.3 percent in the quarter between April and June, up 1.1 percentage points (p.p.) over...
August 7, 2020
Brazil Defense Minister Suspends Raid on Illegal Miners in Amazon Indigenous Land
Brazil’s Defense Ministry on Thursday suspended operations by environmental agents against illegal miners on an indigenous reservation in the Amazon,...
August 7, 2020
Covid-19: Brazil Counts Over 98 Thousand Deaths and 2.9 Million Cases (August 6th)
The Ministry of Health's daily balance released yesterday, August 6th, totaled 98,493 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Since...
August 7, 2020
Regina Duarte, ex-Culture Secretary, Tells Friends She Would Like to Return to TV Globo
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - After swapping a successful 50-year career as an actress with a great salary at Globo...
August 7, 2020Amazon Devastation Hampers Rainfall, Helps Pantanal Record Burning
The Amazon is not the only Brazilian biome under threat. While the world's largest rainforest registered a record number of...
August 7, 2020