A judge from the supreme court of Brazil demanded President Jair Bolsonaro to provide information about the decision on holding Copa America 2021 in the country.
Authorities in Brazil are allegedly targeting indigenous leaders after police launched a probe on two prominent critics of Pres. Jair Bolsonaro's government.
Brazil announced the suspension of the vaccination of pregnant women with the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine after an expectant mother died upon receiving the jab.
Brazil Supreme Court wants to review its last year's ruling banning police raids into Rio de Janeiro favelas after the recent police raid, which took the lives of 25 people.
Police and researchers are calling the police raid in Brazil one of the deadliest police shootings in the history of Rio de Janeiro. The incident left at least 25 people killed.
Large cities in Brazil have been forced to discontinue their administering of COVID vaccine second doses to due lack of supply, marking another hurdle in the country's vaccination program.
Scientists support the Brazilian drug regulator's decision to block the import of the Russian COVID vaccine Sputnik V due to seeing it carried a live version of a common cold-causing virus.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is snubbing new calls of COVID restrictions amid the rising cases in the country, saying that there would be "no national lockdown."
