Chile navy rescues four from Antarctic ship
Four Brazilians filming a documentary off the Antarctic coast were rescued by the Chilean navy after their ship became stuck in the ice, Chilean media said Monday.
Four Brazilians filming a documentary off the Antarctic coast were rescued by the Chilean navy after their ship became stuck in the ice, Chilean media said Monday.
Fifteen people were killed and several were injured when a bus and a truck collided in Brazil’s southeastern state of Minas Gerais, authorities said.
Britain’s Prince Harry was due in Brazil Friday for his first visit to the South American giant to launch the GREAT campaign promoting his country ahead of the 2012 Olympics.
Carnivorous fish attacked bathers in a river in southern Brazil, leaving about 20 of them with bite wounds on their hands and feet, a news website said Monday, citing lifeguards.
The death toll from Brazil’s buildings collapse reached 17 on Saturday after rescue workers found two more bodies under the rubble.
The death toll from Brazil’s building collapse reached 17 on Saturday after rescue workers found two more bodies under the rubble.
Some 2,270 people, most of them farm workers, were rescued from slave labor in Brazil last year and 294 employers found to be responsible were blacklisted, the Labor Ministry said Tuesday.
Two more people died and one was missing Monday following flooding in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais that brought the total death toll to four, civil defense officials said.
President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday signed a law banning smoking in all enclosed public spaces in Brazil.
At least 33 people were killed and 13 others were injured when a tractor-trailor slammed into a bus carrying sugarcane cutters, Brazilian authorities said.
More than 130 prisoners have escaped from prisons in northeastern Brazil in recent days, with 52 inmates breaking out on Sunday, officials said.
A US tourist died aboard a cruise liner which docked in the port of Rio Tuesday after Brazilian authorities were told that 79 people aboard had been sickened by a mystery illness.
Police forces here launched a major operation early Sunday to wrest from criminals control of the Rocinha favela, the largest in Brazil.
