Brazil’s Senate has voted to put suspended President Dilma Rousseff on trial for allegedly breaking fiscal rules in her managing of the federal budget. Wednesday’s 59-21 vote is the final…
The Latest on the debate and vote in Brazil’s Senate on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff (all times local): 9:50 a.m. Brazil’s Senate has kicked off a session that’s…
By JENNY BARCHFIELD and MAURICIO SAVARESE The acting speaker of the lower house of Brazil’s Congress on Monday annulled last month’s vote on impeachment, delaying and complicating the process that…
By MAURICIO SAVARESE and JENNY BARCHFIELD Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called a meeting with her closest advisers and congressional leaders on Monday, a day after nationwide demonstrations urging her…
By JENNY BARCHFIELD and MAURICIO SAVARESE Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories. Regina de Lima and Tainara Lourenco became pregnant at a scary moment…
By JENNY BARCHFIELD Brazil’s health minister says the country will mobilize some 220,000 troops to battle the mosquito blamed for spreading a virus suspected of causing birth defects — but…
By STEPHEN WADE The governing body of world sailing says it will start doing its own independent testing for viruses in Rio’s Olympic waters after an Associated Press investigation showed…
By NINIEK KARMINI Indonesia brushed aside last-minute appeals by foreign leaders and executed by firing squad six people convicted of drug trafficking, including five foreigners, sending a message that the…
