Luciana Magalhaes

Sergey Cherkasov had been seen as a possible candidate for a U.S.-Russia prisoner swap to free a Wall Street Journal reporter jailed in Moscow.

A regional summit ended without consensus on Wednesday, as members of President da Silva’s administration and others expressed misgivings about his plan to drill near the mouth of the Amazon River.

Top military-police commanders in Brazil were arrested Friday on accusations they helped right-wing protesters storm Congress in January in what President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has called a coup attempt.

One of the victims was the brother of a congresswoman, leading police to probe whether the attack was politically motivated.

The first of six planned flights by Brazil's government to rescue nationals stranded in Israel landed in the capital Brasília on Wednesday, officials said, with five others expected in the coming days. About 2,200 nationals, mainly tourists, are seeking to return to Brazil. Two Brazilians who had at

An 18-year-old Israeli woman who was taken hostage by Hamas from a kibbutz in Israel and has been missing since Oct. 7 was found dead, her uncle said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. The woman, Celeste Fishbein, lived in the Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gazan border, where [more than 100 people were

SAO PAULO–Brazilian federal police arrested two suspects with alleged links to Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah on suspicion of planning attacks against synagogues and other Jewish targets in the country, according to people close to the investigation. Police carried out 11 search operations i

More Brazilians are identifying as Black or mixed-race—and white Brazilians are no longer the country’s biggest racial group, according to census data.