The acting speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, Waldir Maranhão (PP-MA) issued a statement on Monday, May 9, canceling the sessions that authorized the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.

As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the 2016 Olympics, the city has launched an innovated approach to help tourists get the most out of their visit: QR code mosaics.

The biggest carnival in the world held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is officially over, but for many Brazilians the party wont end until this Sunday.

Independent cameraman and activist Pedro Rios Leao, 26, is on a hunger strike in front of the headquarters of Globo TV Network in Rio de Janeiro.

In Rio de Janeiro, the protesters for the most part are targeting corruption, poverty, unemployment, and human rights violations.

On her first offical visit to China, the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, signed a trade deal with China worth billions of dollars and generating thousands of future jobs for Brazilians.

Brazil is still trying to repair the damage from the catastrophic mudslides last month in Rio de Janeiro that left hundreds dead and several thousand homeless.

Epoch Times reporter in Rio de Janeiro tells of his sister’s harrowing survival of Rio’s flash-flood and mudslides that killed nearly 700 people.

Thousands of Brazilian army troops to occupy Rio slums in extensive drugs and weapons search and seizures.

Anti-drug war continues, police scour for hundreds of drug traffickers, few were arrested in Rio.