Brazilian President Dilma Roussef will face impeachment in the Senate. While, major opposition party still divided over joining the new government under Vice President Temer.
Brazil said that it has recovered $125 million that has been channelled to overseas banks through corrupt businessmen, politicians, and other government officials.
Brazil corruption investigator pleged to continue digging on corruption scandal at the state-owned oil company. The investigation has also paired with impeachment of president Dilma Roussef.
Brazil's first female president Dlima Rousseff vows to fight for her position after an impeachment defeat in the lower house of the congress. The opposition camp rejoices on Sunday's voting results while supporters of vice president Michel Temer prepares for the new administration.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, is on the verge of impeachment following the accusations thrown at her involving graft and manipulation of government accounts. The lower House of Congress has decided to support the impeachment.
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.
President Dilma Rousseff’s austerity program to fix Brazil's shaky finances is again in trouble after her point man in the Senate was arrested in a widening corruption scandal, and it could reignite calls for her impeachment.
The chief executive of Brazil's biggest independent investment bank and the leading senator in the governing coalition were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of obstructing the country's most sweeping corruption investigation ever.
A Brazilian congressional ethics committee decided on Monday to investigate whether lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha lied in a corruption hearing about Swiss bank accounts that prosecutors say he controls.
Brazil's president slapped preliminary fines of 250 million reais ($66.2 million) against a mine in the country's southeast where two dams burst, killing nine people and coating a two-state area with mud and mine waste.
Brazil's government said on Wednesday it may fine mining giants BHP Billiton Ltd and Vale SA for the "environmental catastrophe" caused by ruptured dams at an iron ore mine jointly owned by the companies in a southeastern state.
As despair turns to anger over a deadly dam burst at a Brazilian mine, lawmakers pushed on Tuesday for tougher regulations in a new mining code and iron ore giant Vale SA came under pressure to help mourning families and contain the environmental impact.
Opposition activists handcuffed themselves to a pillar in Brazil's Congress on Wednesday seeking the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff for mismanaging a once-booming economy and undermining confidence in the country.
The speaker of the lower house of Brazil's Congress said on Thursday that manipulating government accounts, the main opposition case for ousting President Dilma Rousseff, was not sufficient grounds to impeach her.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday her opponents are trying to overthrow a democratically elected government by seeking to oust her without any material facts while spreading hatred and intolerance across Latin America's largest country.
Brazil's attorney general argued on Sunday for the removal of a judge overseeing an investigation of embattled President Dilma Rousseff's accounts, a last-minute attempt to avoid a ruling that could lead to her impeachment.
Brazil's opposition parties on Thursday filed a request in Congress to impeach President Dilma Rousseff for breaking fiscal rules by allegedly manipulating government finances to benefit her re-election last year.
