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Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Brazil on Monday of this week, in protest at bus and subway fare hikes.

Police in southern Brazil killed one Terena indigenous protester and wounded several others while evicting them from their land on Thursday of last week. 

Tens of thousands of protesters joined an enormous demonstration through the centre of the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday evening to demand economic justice and action over climate change.

The United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainability is set to begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday of this week.

Workers in Brazil brought a £7 billion Amazon dam building project to a grinding halt when they struck last week.

More than 2,000 police forcibly evicted residents of the Pinheirinho slum district of Sao Jose dos Campos near Sao Paulo, Brazil, early last Sunday morning.

Lygia Pape, who died in 2004, was a groundbreaking Brazilian artist.

Henrique Sanchez reports on the growing strike wave and ecological movements in Brazil

In 1958 a 17-year old former street kid by the name of Pelé scored two goals against Sweden to help Brazil lift the World Cup.

The pictures from Brazil, where well over 600 people have already died in the floods and mudslides, are all too familiar. However it was the floods in Australia that got most of the attention.

Brazil heads the UN mission in Haiti. Haitians say that terrifying, unannounced and unexplained raids of their areas by Brazilian troops are common.

Brazil’s presidential elections have been forced into a second round as Workers Party (PT) candidate Dilma Rousseff, selected to replace president Lula, fell 3 percent short of the 50 percent needed to win the election outright.