TEHRAN, Feb 21 - Brazilian federal police said on Thursday they were serving arrest warrants for 54 people over their alleged role in a vast drug trafficking network which specialized in airborne shipments to Brazil, the United States and Europe.
TEHRAN, Feb 18 - Brazil's government on Monday banned new upstream mining dams and ordered the decommissioning of all such dams by 2021, targeting the type of structure that burst last month in the town of Brumadinho, killing hundreds of people.
TEHRAN, Feb 17 - Around 200 residents were evacuated from an area near a tailings dam in Brazil operated by Vale SA late on Saturday, amid fears that it was structurally weak and could burst like a similar barrier failure last month that killed 300 people.
TEHRAN, Feb 08 - Brazil's Vale SA has evacuated around 500 people from a dam area in the Gongo Soco mine in the state of Minas Gerais as a preventive measure, the mining company said in a statement on Friday.
TEHRAN, Feb 04 - The death toll from the failure of a tailings dam operated by miner Vale SA in Brazil rose to 134 while 199 people are still unaccounted for, according to a statement from the rescue team on Monday.
Source: Reuters
TEHRAN, Feb 03 -General Motors Co said on Saturday it is negotiating “feasibility conditions” to invest 10 billion reais ($2.73 billion) in Brazil from 2020 to 2024, after having warned last month that new investments would depend on returning to profit.
TEHRAN, Feb 02 -As Brazilians pay homage to the victims of a recent dam collapse in the country’s south, a newly released video footage shows the shocking moment of the horrific incident and the ensuing powerful wave of waste that began sweeping over everything in its path.
TEHRAN, Jan 30 - The death toll from Brazil's collapsed mining dam climbed to 58, with 305 people still missing in southeast Brazil's state of Minas Gerais, said local authorities.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 - Three employees of Brazilian miner Vale SA and two other engineers working on behalf of the company were arrested on Tuesday, state prosecutors said, deepening a crisis for the company after another deadly disaster at one of its mines.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 -The death toll from Brazil's collapsed mining dam climbed to 65, with 279 people still missing in southeast Brazil's Minas Gerais state, according to latest official data on Monday.
TEHRAN, Jan 27 - Brazilian rescue workers halted searches for the night on Saturday for hundreds of people missing and feared dead under a sea of mud after a tailings dam burst at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, killing at least 34 people.
TEHRAN, Jan 26 -Brazilian rescue workers on Saturday searched for roughly 300 missing people after a tailings dam burst at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA (VALE3.SA), amid faint hopes of finding many alive, three years after a similar disaster involving the miner.
TEHRAN, Jan 14 - A Brazilian police officer died and three others were hospitalized Monday after their helicopter crashed in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay.
TEHRAN, Jan 14-Far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s new government wants to save 1 trillion reais ($269.48 billion) over 10 years via pension reforms economists say are vital to undo the growing fiscal deficit, a Brazilian newspaper reported on Monday.
TEHRAN, Jan 12 - Brazil's government on Saturday issued a statement saying it recognized Venezuela's Congressional leader, who opposes President Nicolas Maduro, as the rightful president of Venezuela.
TEHRAN, Jan 9 - Brazil has pulled out of a United Nations pact on dealing with rising migration, joining the United States and a growing number of countries in rejecting the agreement, a Brazilian diplomat with direct knowledge of the matter says.
TEHRAN, Jan 5 - The Brazilian military is at odds with Brazil’s new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s comments that he would be open to discussing the possibility of hosting a US military base on the South American country’s soil, a top army official says.
TEHRAN, Jan 4 - Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro called on the executive, judicial and legislative branches on Friday to quickly pass legislation to protect security officials from prosecution when on duty.
TEHRAN, Jan 2 - Augusto Heleno, Brazil's new minister of institutional security, said on Wednesday that his main task will be to rescue the country's intelligence service for far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.