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Brazil: Standoff between striking police, soldiers (AP)
AP - Soldiers clashed with supporters of striking police in Brazil's third-largest city on Monday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the feet of people trying to join officers occupying the Bahia state legislature building.
Crime erupts as police strike in Brazil's Bahia: reports (Reuters)
Reuters - A police strike in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia sparked a wave of murders and other violence in World Cup host-city Salvador, local media reported, just two weeks ahead of Carnaval celebrations that are expected to attract visitors from around the world.
Olympics, World Cup preparation bring evictions (AP)
AP - Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos' devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn't watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium — this nation's temple to the sport.
Brazil's minister of cities steps down (AP)
AP - Brazil's minister of cities resigned Thursday amid allegations of irregularities, the eighth member of President Dilma Rousseff's Cabinet to step down since June.
Brazil's Rousseff: Visas offered to Haiti (AP)
AP - Brazil is offering 6,000 visas to Haitians over a five-year period as one of several efforts that look to help the troubled Caribbean nation get on its feet, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday.
Building collapse, blasts spark worries about Rio (AP)
AP - Enormous buildings suddenly collapse in this Olympic city's center, killing 17. A manhole explodes near Copacabana Beach, severely burning a pair of American tourists.
Brazil's Rousseff meets with Fidel Castro in Cuba (Reuters)
Reuters - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff met with Fidel Castro, the revolutionary hero of her youth, and held talks with his younger brother, President Raul Castro, on Tuesday in a visit to strengthen financial ties with communist-led Cuba.
Brazil prez: Blogger's travel for Cuba to decide (AP)
AP - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says her country acted properly in granting a visa to a dissident Cuban blogger, but says it's an internal Cuban matter as to whether blogger Yoani Sanchez is allowed to leave the country.
Brazilian bikinis burgeon to fit the fat (AP)
AP - Tall and tan and young and ... chunky?
Hope fades for survivors in Rio building collapse (AP)
AP - Firefighters pulled more bodies from the rubble of three collapsed buildings in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, raising the death toll to at least 17 as hopes faded for finding anyone alive almost three days after the disaster.
U.S. detains Brazil, Canada orange juice for fungicide (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. health regulators detained three shipments of Brazilian orange juice and six from Canada that tested positive for the fungicide carbendazim, which is illegal in the United States.
Four dead, 22 missing in Rio buildings collapse (Reuters)
Reuters - At least 22 people were still missing on Thursday after rescuers recovered four bodies from the rubble of three buildings that collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Mayor Eduardo Paes said
Exclusive: Chevron to face charges over Brazil spill (Reuters)
Reuters - A Brazilian prosecutor plans to file criminal charges against Chevron Corp and some of its local managers within weeks, adding the threat of prison sentences to an $11 billion civil lawsuit as punishment for a November offshore oil spill.
Rio building collapse: Will Brazil be ready for the Olympics? (+video) (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - The collapse of three buildings in the center of Rio de Janeiro sounds a sharp cautionary note for Brazilians as the country rushes to build homes, hotels, transports links, and other infrastructure projects ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
Two buildings collapse in Rio de Janeiro (Reuters)
Reuters - Two buildings collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, in the latest incident highlighting the failure of authorities to improve the city's infrastructure amid preparations to host soccer's World Cup and the Olympics.
Rousseff to visit Cuba, focus on post-embargo era (Reuters)
Reuters - Some forty years ago, Dilma Rousseff was a guerrilla fighter working clandestinely to bring a version of Cuban leader Fidel Castro's communist revolution to Brazil.
Rousseff's mission for Brazil in 2012: 4 percent growth (Reuters)
Reuters - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has made 4 percent economic growth her government's main mission this year and is willing to cut taxes, take stimulus measures and possibly sacrifice other targets if needed, government sources tell Reuters.
Bolivia signs coca control accord with Brazil, US (AP)
AP - Bolivia has joined Brazil and the United States in signing an accord to cooperate in the control of coca plant cultivation.
FDA clears more orange juice imports (Reuters)
Reuters - Health regulators cleared more orange juice imports from five countries after testing for the fungicide carbendazim, but made no mention of samples from top grower Brazil, which accounts for half of U.S. juice imports.
103-year sentence in Brazil running mate murder (AP)
AP - A federal court in northeastern Brazil has sentenced a politician to 103 years in prison for killing his running mate so that he could take her place in Congress.

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