An injunction requested by Rousseff's camp to suspend the impeachment vote in the lower house this Sunday has been denied by the Supreme Court in an 8-2 decision.
In light of the widespread Zika Virus going on in different parts of the world, the U.S. Congress have responded in aiding a Zika drug development through the approval of a bill. The bill will be providing financial incentives for companies that will be pursuing a Zika drug development.
Brazil's Attorney General Jose Eduardo Cardozo believes that the impeachment case against President Rousseff is illegal. Cardozo points out that the case is politically motivated and is just an attempt to discredit the president.
Brazil's top judge has ruled the former president Lula da Silva to be put out of his new ministerial post to allow investigations for his corruption case.
Dilma Rousseff is planning to sue Senator Delcidio Amaral for defamation after he threw corruption allegations at the president and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
President Rousseff of Brazil faced protests and cries for her recognition after she appointed Former President Lula as Chief of Staff. Lula was supposed to be investigated for charges of bribery and money-laundering until the appoitnment made him immune from persecutions except by the Supreme Court.
Brazil's former president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, accepts his successor's offer to be her Chief of Staff in a move that critics say is calculated to prevent his incarceration if found guilty of corruption charges.
The short, yet explosive and scandalous phone call between the two profiles caused angry mass protests in Brazil. The call suggested that the president's appointment to a ministerial position was motivated by a desire to avoid prosecution in Brazil's worst-ever corruption scandal.
The "Human Barbie" trend returns as a young Brazilian woman popped out looking like a real life Barbie and even resembling Disney's Elsa. Andressa Damiani, the new human barbie claims her looks are all natural and she did not undergo plastic surgery nor extreme diet.
It was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy. Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal.
Brazil's environmental assets exchange BVRio on Tuesday launched an app that promises to help foreign traders and buyers of Brazilian timber make sure the product hasn't been illegally logged.
Three days after a massive mudflow and flood caused by ruptured dams at an iron ore mine, Brazilian authorities are still struggling to determine a cause or even recover the bodies of as many as 28 people possibly swept away in the torrent.
Greenpeace called on Brazilian authorities on Tuesday to reject an environmental assessment for a hydroelectric dam on the Tapajos River in the Amazon because it was a "marketing tool" that disregarded the indigenous people living along its banks.
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro said on Tuesday he would ban the use of ride-hailing app Uber in the city, but left the door open to possible regulation of the service in the future.
The decision comes as major cities across Brazil struggle to come to grips with the app and the impact it is having on local taxi drivers.
Mexico's government withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds owed to Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and Colgate combined as it sought to coax them and other multinationals to pay more income tax locally, according to people close to the talks.
A federal judge in Brazil overseeing a sweeping corruption investigation said on Tuesday there were signs that President Dilma Rousseff's former chief of staff had received bribes.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered across Brazil on Sunday to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, whom they blame for a vast corruption scandal and the economy's worst slump in a quarter century.
Brazilian police on Monday arrested former government minister Jose Dirceu, one of the most senior members of the ruling Workers' Party to be detained so far in a corruption scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras.
Fifteen of the world's largest banks are under investigation on suspicion of rigging the Brazilian currency, antitrust watchdog Cade said on Thursday, the first such probe in one of the busiest foreign exchange markets globally.
