Brazil

In Lucas do Rio Verde, Brazil, a twin-engine Beechcraft C90GTi King Air plane crashed during takeoff from Bom Futuro Airport. The plane's left wing struck the runway, causing it to veer into a hangar and resulting in a fiery…

Twelve passengers and two crew members on a twin-engine EMB-110 plane died in a crash in the Amazon state of Brazil. "According to the first information obtained, it was determined that the visibility of the plane was low due to heavy rain,…

Southern Brazil continues to grapple with the chaos caused by the downpour. Rio Grande do Sul Governor Eduardo Leite said that 15 more dead bodies were found in the town of Muçul as the flood waters receded, bringing the death toll to 21.…

Four people have died in flooding in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state, with onlookers capturing the dramatic moment when a house was swept away. Severe storms caused widespread flooding and landslides in over 15 cities,…

Brazilian local councilor Sabaha Filho threw away 300,000 reals out of the window of a state building in Candido Mendes, claiming that it was bribed to him by Mayor Jose Bonifacio Rocha de Jesus to resign. Scattering the money saying "This…

A tragic blast at a grain silo in Palotina, Parana, a major grain-producing region in Brazil, has left eight dead and 12 injured. One person is still unaccounted for. The cause of the explosion at the C.Vale Cooperative, along…

The number of people who died in the collapsed four-storey apartment building in the Janga district of Recife, the capital of Pernambuco state in the northeast of Brazil, rose to 14. It is estimated that the building was destroyed due to…