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WATCH BRAZILIAN POLICE ATTACK ANTI-IMPEACHMENT PROTESTERS
Riot police detain a man during an anti-impeachment protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday... READ MORE›
56 KILLED, MANY BEHEADED, IN GRISLY BRAZIL PRISON RIOT
Sao Paulo, Brazil - A prison riot in the Brazilian Amazon has left at least 56 people dead with some bodies decapitated and burned, officials said... READ MORE›
BRAZIL TRANSFIXED AS VOTES ARE CAST ON IMPEACHING DILMA ROUSSEFF
Ms. Rousseff can still appeal to the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brazil's highest court, though it rejected previous motions to have the impeachment measure dismissed... READ MORE›
TEMPERS FLARE IN BRAZIL OVER INTERCEPTS OF CALLS BY EX-PRESIDENT LULA
A judge in the capital, Brasilia, issued an injunction against the move, arguing that Ms. Rousseff may have violated the law in appointing Mr. da Silva... READ MORE›
PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR BLASPHEMY MAKES LAST APPEAL
Amnesty International has raised serious concerns about the fairness of her trial and has called for her release... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT LULA CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION IN OIL KICKBACK SCANDAL
Dallagnol said that Lula, because of his control of the machinery of the Workers' party and the Brazilian government, was the central figure in the scheme... READ MORE›
BRAZILS MOST ENTERTAINING SHOW MAY BE CONGRESS
There is the Party of the Brazilian Woman, for instance -- a group whose elected members in Congress are all men... READ MORE›
JAMES HOLMES SPARED DEATH PENALTY FOR US CINEMA KILLINGS
Profile Aurora gunman James Holmes In July, Holmes was convicted on 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and an explosives charge over the shootings in Aurora, Colorado... READ MORE›
FIGHT TO IMPEACH BRAZILS LEADER TEARS AT FABRIC OF DAILY LIFE
Alarmed by the surge in social strife, some Brazilians have taken a hard line on political chatter... READ MORE›
WHO ARE THE FOUR AMERICANS STILL BEING HELD IN IRAN?
But the agreement makes no mention of Americans who have been held in Iran for years... READ MORE›
DILMA ROUSSEFF SUSPENDED AS SENATE VOTES TO IMPEACH BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT
Brazil's first female president stripped of duties in country's first impeachment in 24 years... READ MORE›
JUDGE BLOCKS BRAZILS EX-PRESIDENT FROM CABINET POST
The latest twist in the crisis underscores the tumult in Brazil over Mr. da Silva's nomination... READ MORE›
DILMA ROUSSEFF IS OUSTED AS BRAZILS PRESIDENT IN IMPEACHMENT VOTE
But Ms. Rousseff and her supporters call her ouster a coup that undermines Brazil's young democracy... READ MORE›
FOREIGN OFFICE WILL NO LONGER EXPLICITLY CAMPAIGN FOR AN END TO USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO has alarmed campaigners after dropping explicit references to abolishing the death penalty from its global human right work... READ MORE›
BRAZIL FOOTBALL CLUB TO OPEN CEMETERY
Fans will be able to choose from up to 70,000 plots at the Corinthians Forever cemetery near Sao Paulo... READ MORE›
FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA CHARGED IN MASSIVE CORRUPTION SCANDAL
Brazilians had known that Lula was under investigation, and police had recommended charges against him last month for allegedly accepting improper renovations to a seaside apartment... READ MORE›
MEXICAN DRUG LORD'S DREAMS OF BIOPIC AIDED IN HIS CAPTURE
After two prison escapes, many expect the Mexican government to extradite Guzman to the United States... READ MORE›
FIRST ARREST MADE IN GANG RAPE CASE IN BRAZIL
The Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies found that more than 92,000 women were killed in gender-related crimes, including rape and domestic abuse, from 1980 to 2010... READ MORE›
MONSANTO, MICROSOFT TO INVEST IN AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY IN BRAZIL
SAO PAULO U.S. biotech company Monsanto Co and Microsoft Corp announced on Monday a partnership to invest in agricultural technology startups in Brazil... READ MORE›
HOW BRAZIL, THE DARLING OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD, CAME UNDONE
Big parts of the Brazil model, it turns out, were glued together with kickbacks, dirty money and lies... READ MORE›
BRAZIL WORKERS PARTY FALLS FROM GRACE
In 1986, Mr. da Silva was elected to Congress and, two years later, a Workers' Party candidate won the mayoralty of Sao Paulo, the country's largest city... READ MORE›
INTELLECTUALLY-DISABLED AUSTRALIAN COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA
In all, as many as a dozen Australians have been detained in Guangzhou in the past year or so on similar drug charges which could attract the death penalty... READ MORE›
GERMANS 'WORKING IN SPECIALIST TORTURE SQUAD FOR ISLAMIC STATE'
During his time in Syria he witnessed several torture sessions and executions, including the crucifixion of a former Isil commander, he told interrogators... READ MORE›
HUGE PROTESTS IN BRAZIL LEAVE GOVERNMENT RATTLED
A giant inflatable doll known as Pixuleco, depicting Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, took to the sky over Sao Paulo on Sunday... READ MORE›
NEBRASKA POISED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, WOULD BE FIRST STATE SINCE 2013
If that vote holds in a veto override, Nebraska would become the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since 1973... READ MORE›
CROCODILES AND TIGERS TO GUARD PRISONERS
In November 2015, Indonesia bowed to international pressure and put a temporary halt on executing death row prisoners, so alternatives were sought by the authorities... READ MORE›
AS ISIS POSTS IN PORTUGUESE US AND BRAZIL BOLSTER OLYMPICS SECURITY
American officials have been training Brazilian antiterrorism units on chemical and biological attacks... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SUPREME COURT OKS PROBE INTO ALLEGATIONS CITING TEMER
Brazil Supreme Court Judge Teori Zavascki approved the probe that also cites Senate President Renan Calheiros, among others, the court said... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SCALES BACK CARNIVAL FESTIVITIES AS DROUGHT AND WEAK ECONOMY PERSIST
In the sambadrome, where tens of thousands gather to watch the samba schools parade, water pressure to the bathrooms has been reduced fivefold to avoid wastage... READ MORE›
PRISON RIOT IN BRAZIL LEAVES DOZENS DEAD, AUTHORITIES SAY
Prisons, which have always been tinderboxes, are manifesting the reorganization of organized crime in Brazil, he said... READ MORE›