Recent News Headlines : Roraima - Brazil

BRAZIL WON'T BUILD A WALL TO STEM TIDE OF VENEZUELAN REFUGEES


Aloysio Nunes's comments come as refugees continue to pour into Roraima, the Brazilian state bordering Venezuela, where tens of thousands have arrived over the past year... READ MORE

16th February, 2018 309

COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL TIGHTEN VENEZUELA BORDER CONTROL


Brazil has received around 40,000 Venezuelans in its northernmost state, Roraima... READ MORE

9th February, 2018 170

BRAZILIAN PRISON RIOT AMONG RIVAL GANGS LEAVES NINE DEAD; SCORES ESCAPE


Inmates from rival gangs battled at a prison in Goaias state Monday, leaving nine dead and 14 injured, authorities told the Brazilian news site G1. Officia... READ MORE

2nd January, 2018 0

Trending News Headlines : Roraima

HUNGRY VENEZUELANS FLEE IN BOATS TO ESCAPE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE


About 60 percent more Venezuelans fled the country this year than during the year before, he added... READ MORE

26th November, 2016 49031

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

2nd January, 2017 7954

BRAZIL: INDIGENOUS GROUPS CONDEMN ALLEGED MASSACRE


The reported massacre would be the second deadliest after 16 Yanomami indigenous people were killed in Roraima state in 1993 by illegal gold miners... READ MORE

15th September, 2017 4362

INQUIRY LAUNCHED AFTER MYSTERY AIR CRASH KILLS BRAZILIAN ENVIRONMENTALISTS


Brazil's Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources said the agents died while on a mission to combat deforestation and illegal gold extraction... READ MORE

28th July, 2017 4220

HUNGRY VENEZUELANS FLOOD BRAZILIAN TOWNS, AS THREAT OF MASS MIGRATION LOOMS


Brazilian government services are buckling under the weight of the sudden influx of Venezuelan migrants... READ MORE

2nd January, 2017 2695

VENEZUELANS ARE FLEEING TO BRAZIL FOR MEDICAL CARE OVERWHELMING ITS HOSPITALS AND MORGUES


A spiraling economic crisis and hyperinflation have cleaned Venezuelan hospitals of needles, bandages and medicine... READ MORE

31st December, 2016 2263

AT LEAST 25 PRISONERS DIE AS RIOTS ERUPT IN BRAZIL JAIL


At least 25 inmates have died in clashes between two rival factions in a prison in far northern Brazil, according to local news media citing police... READ MORE

17th October, 2016 818

BRAZIL PRISONERS BEHEADED IN RIOT AT NATAL PRISON


Police say at least 10 prisoners have been killed at the Alcacuz jail... READ MORE

15th January, 2017 489

BRAZIL PRISON RIOT KILLS MORE THAN 50 IN AMAZONAS STATE


More than 50 inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, officials say... READ MORE

2nd January, 2017 363

MANAUS RESIDENTS LIVE IN FEAR AFTER PRISON BREAKS


Between January 2-9, another 10 inmates were killed in smaller prison clashes in Amazonas and the northeastern state of Paraiba... READ MORE

13th January, 2017 353

DRUGS GANG 'KILLS 33 INMATES' IN BRAZILIAN JAIL


At least 33 prisoners have been killed in a prison in northern Brazil, just days after 56 died during a jail riot in a neighbouring state... READ MORE

7th January, 2017 276

DEADLY BRAZIL PRISON RIOT UNDER CONTROL, OFFICIALS SAY


Inmates stand in their cell in the Pedrinhas Prison Complex, the largest penitentiary in Maranhao state, on Jan. 27, 2015 in Sao Luis, Brazil... READ MORE

16th January, 2017 262

'AT LEAST 26 DEAD' IN NATAL VIOLENCE


On Saturday afternoon, violence erupted between members of rival gangs at Alcacuz prison, starting a riot which lasted until a dawn raid the following day... READ MORE

15th January, 2017 257

DEBATE TURNS VITRIOLIC IN BRAZIL AS IMPEACHMENT VOTE NEARS


Brazils president is facing impeachment over allegations she broke fiscal laws... READ MORE

17th April, 2016 187

BRAZIL'S NEW GOVERNMENT MAY BE LESS LIKELY TO PROTECT THE AMAZON, CRITICS SAY


A village of indigenous Yanomami is seen during Brazil's environmental agency operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land in Roraima state on April 18, 2016... READ MORE

24th May, 2016 175

BRAZIL PRISON RIOT LEAVES AT LEAST FOUR DEAD


A prison uprising in the neighbouring state of Roraima left at least 33 dead... READ MORE

9th January, 2017 160

NEW BRAZIL PRISON CLASH KILLS FOUR IN AMAZON REGION


56 killed, many beheaded, in grisly Brazil prison riot Five days later, PCC members killed 33 people at a Roraima state prison... READ MORE

9th January, 2017 141

CLASHES GRIP BRAZIL PRISON WHERE 26 KILLED


At least 33 inmates dead in northern Roraima state, just days after prison clashes between rival gangs killed 56 people... READ MORE

19th January, 2017 126

'BARBARIC' DISMEMBERMENT MARKED LATEST BRAZIL PRISON MASSACRE


This is a national crisis, said Uziel Castro, security secretary of Roraima, where the latest massacre happened... READ MORE

6th January, 2017 112

GANGS CLASH INSIDE BRAZIL PRISON WHERE 26 MASSACRED THIS WEEK


Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters into the yard of the Alcacuz prison in northeastern Brazil as helicopters buzzed overhead... READ MORE

19th January, 2017 79

HEARTS, INTESTINES RIPPED OUT IN GRUESOME BRAZIL PRISON KILLING SPREE


33 inmates were killed in a northern Brazil prison just days after 60 were killed at two prisons in a neighbouring state... READ MORE

7th January, 2017 17

HEARTS, INTESTINES RIPPED OUT IN BRAZIL PRISON KILLING SPREE


Authorities said that clash involved the First Command and Red Command, which has its base in Rio de Janeiro... READ MORE

7th January, 2017 10

GANG FIGHTING KILLS AT LEAST 10 BRAZILIAN PRISON INMATES


Prison violence has killed at least 89 inmates in brazil this month... READ MORE

15th January, 2017 6

INMATES INVOLVED IN BRAZIL PRISON RIOT TO BE MOVED TO FEDERAL INSTITUTION, AUTHORITIES SAY


He said there was a link between the killing of 56 inmates in a penitentiary in Manaus, the state capital, and four deaths in a smaller prison... READ MORE

3rd January, 2017 2

ESCAPEES TAUNT BRAZIL POLICE AS MANHUNT FOR 144 CONTINUES, PRISON MASSACRE PERPETRATORS FACE TRANSFER


In all, 184 inmates escaped from two prisons in Amazonas state as a local drug gang took gruesome revenge on members of a rival gang, authorities said... READ MORE

4th January, 2017 1

INMATES INVOLVED IN BRAZIL PRISON MASSACRE TO BE TRANSFERRED


The two are clashing over the control of prisons and drug routes in northern Brazil... READ MORE

4th January, 2017 0

HEARTS, INTESTINES RIPPED OUT IN BRAZIL PRISON KILLING SPREE


What we need is the federal government help, said Castro... READ MORE

9th January, 2017 0

OKSS BRAZIL PRISON VIOLENCE CONTINUES UNABATED, KILLS 32


The breakout occurred after a riot was presumably started to distract guards, the state prison management agency Depen said... READ MORE

16th January, 2017 0

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