Brazil's leftist President Dilma Rousseff narrowly won re-election on Sunday after convincing voters that her party's strong record of reducing poverty over the last 12 years was more important than a recent economic slump.
Uruguayans vote on Sunday in a presidential election with the ruling leftist party trying to fend off a young center-right challenger who promises to undo a pioneering marijuana law.
President Dilma Rousseff looks positioned to narrowly win a second term on Sunday thanks to a slight rebound in the economy and her success in portraying her rival as an elitist who would take Brazil back to a more heartless era.
Brazil's leftist President Dilma Rousseff placed first in Sunday's election but did not get enough votes to avoid a runoff and will face pro-business rival Aecio Neves, who made a dramatic late surge to finish a strong second.
Brazil's TIM Participações SA (TIMP3.SA) has hired Banco Bradesco SA's (BBDC4.SA) investment banking unit to analyze a potential bid for rival Grupo Oi SA (OIBR3.SA), a source with knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Friday.
The United States and Brazil are close to settling a decade-old trade dispute over cotton subsidies, three Brazilian sources close to the talks told Reuters, in what would be the first concrete step to repair ties hurt by an espionage scandal.
Brazil's increasingly powerful evangelical Christians are tantalizingly close to electing one of their own as president next month in what would be a historic shift for the world's largest Catholic nation.
Lawyers representing 40 top women's soccer players challenged FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) on Friday by saying they would file a lawsuit against them over staging next year's women's World Cup in Canada on artificial turf.
Popular environmentalist Marina Silva looks capable of winning Brazil's presidential election in October but a major campaign gaffe and mounting attacks from other candidates and the media suggest the race is still wide open.
Even after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called an emergency Cabinet meeting in response to her country's growing protests throughout the country, she remained 'stoically silent.' The anti-government protests reportedly range in scope, denouncing everything from poor public services to the billions of dollars spent preparing for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, both held in the country. Demonstrators were planned for mobilizations in 10 cities on Saturday.
A foreign tourist was raped and robbed on a minibus on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, while her boyfriend was beaten and handcuffed on Saturday night. Two of the culprits - including the driver - have been arrested, and a third who was contacted by mobile phone, had also raped the woman. After they were dumped in the nearby city of Itaborai, they have since spoken to police, leading to two arrests.
A Brazilian doctor who was charged with killing seven patients to free up beds at a hospital intensive care unit may have been responsible for as many as 300 deaths.
