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As Europe attempts to limit AI technologies domestically, systems developed on the continent are being deployed internationally. Investigate Europe explores how European-made biometric software has become ingrained in Brazil’s education sector, with potential implications that extend well beyond the classroom.

For years, Daniel Vorcaro was best known in Brazil’s financial world as the head of Banco Master, a bank whose rapid expansion left some analysts puzzled.

A woman who was abused by pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein told the FBI she massaged Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor before he gave her a massage in return.

President Donald Trump stated on Saturday that the United States and Latin American countries are joining forces to fight violent cartels, as his administration seeks to show its ongoing commitment to refining U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere, even while addressing critical emergencies worldwide.

The police boat looks tiny compared to the massive cargo ships it passes by, floating in the channel of Brazil’s Santos port. Overhead, a dozen giant cranes stack containers on each cargo carrier, resembling a game of Tetris.

Brazil has filed drug trafficking charges against Alexandre Rodrigues Gomes, the son of a former congressman from Paraguay’s ruling party who was killed in a police raid in 2024.

A 13-year-old boy passed away on Thursday after being attacked by a shark at a popular beach along Brazil’s eastern coast, according to a statement by the state government.

A neo-Nazi extremist group known as the Black Sun Rising Militia planned coordinated terrorist attacks across the US and Europe before its leader, Vincent Weidlich, was arrested in Brazil.

Rosatom’s vast budgets, unclear transactions, and extensive powers create the ideal environment for widespread corruption.

Organized crime has become an existential threat to the uncontacted Indigenous peoples of the Amazon as illegal gold miners, drug traffickers, loggers, and poachers advance ever deeper into the world’s largest rainforest.

A Harvard visiting law professor from Brazil who told police he was shooting at rats when he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue during Yom Kippur has left the United States after his visa was revoked, federal officials and his lawyer confirmed on Thursday.

Criminal factions and paramilitary mafia groups have expanded their presence in Brazil and now infiltrate the neighborhoods of at least 28.5 million people, according to a Datafolha poll commissioned by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety.

Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest, citing risks to public order following his coup-plot conviction. Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison last month.

The U.S. State Department has placed Brazil and South Africa on its human trafficking watchlist, saying both countries “do not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking”

Brazil’s criminal groups are weaponizing artificial intelligence (AI) to drive high-tech financial fraud, exploiting gaps in a fast-growing digital ecosystem as banks, legislators, and police scramble to keep up.

Carlos Souto Maior, 40, broke ten bones during a daring 850-metre jump in Castelo, State of Espírito Santo, Brazil, on 13 August.

Increased U.S. tariffs on Brazilian products are anticipated to alter global beef trade patterns. Analysts stated on Wednesday that this change is likely to lead to more shipments to the U.S. from countries such as Mexico and Australia, while Brazil looks for new markets.

Brazil’s federal police said that messages found on the telephone of embattled former president Jair Bolsonaro showed that at one point he wanted to flee to Argentina and request political asylum, according to documents seen Wednesday by the Associated Press.

Fitness influencer and mom Nicole Brenda Santos Marins has died in a horror crash after cycling into the bank of a car before being run over by a truck. She was 28.

The decision was strongly condemned by the Trump administration

Coffee prices are increasing following President Donald Trump's announcement of a comprehensive 50% tariff on imports from Brazil

"America will, once again, build a DOMINANT Copper Industry," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social media platform.

A massive rescue operation is underway for Juliana Marins, 26, who tumbled next to the crater of an active Indonesian volcano, Mount Rinjani, according to reports.

Two nuns from Brazil have gained viral fame by breaking into an unexpected beatbox and dance routine on a Catholic TV show

A tattooed beauty influencer was stabbed nine times while livestreaming after breaking up with her boyfriend, who is now being hunted for attempted murder, according to reports.