Brazil

In Brazil, patients are thought of as having the "right to beauty."

The number of casualties from the fire and resulting collapse is unclear.

Prison guards were among the casualties.

Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil will serve a 12-year and one-month prison sentence.

The pontiff responded to a letter written by Franco's daughter.

Marielle Franco, an outspoken critic of police corruption and state violence, was killed in a drive-by shooting.

Even among the giant viruses, these are weird.

The Brazilian drug trafficker used the nurses to immunize poor local residents from yellow fever.

The Rio Carnival officially began on Friday 9 February and lasts until 17 February, during which time the city will be teeming with hundreds of thousands of tourists who come to watch the parades and take part in raucous street processions.

Lula was seen as the front-runner against right-wing Congressman Jair Bolsonaro in the nation's presidential race scheduled for October.

"Even if you start with really high quality coffee, you're going to lose some of the sweetness and some of the aromatics."

There will be parades and cultural events to celebrate Afro-Brazilian culture.

Critical elections in the region's three most populous countries are likely to reveal a distemper stemming from citizen disgust.

Morales described sanctions the U.S. imposed on Venezuela as "new threats."

The winner of Brazil's best butt pageant did not leave her political opinions behind.

Luislinda Valois is facing backlash after making comments that she's feeling like a "slave" for earning only $10,000 a month— in a country whose average salary hovers around $635.

The Maduro regime criticizes the president's remarks on Venezuela during his U.N speech.

Hafez al-Assad finished in the lower end of the International Mathematical Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro.

Lula's conviction leaves the 2018 presidential race wide open, raising chances of a victory by a political outsider.

The Valongo Wharf was described as "the most important physical trace of the arrival of African slaves on the American continent."

Sunday's protest in Copacabana beach followed the fatal shooting of a 76-year-old woman and her daughter.

In 20 years, the parade has increased participation from 2,000 to 3 million people.

The U.S., Brazil and 10 other members of the Organization of American States (OAS) accused Venezuela of undermining democracy and failing to feed its people.

News that the president himself may have been party to a cover-up has shaken the nation.

The Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared to three children in 1917, sharing three prophecies about humanity.

The former Brazilian president has denounced the trial as a farce.

American steel workers are losing out to Trump's America First policies.

Telephone data showed the cell discussing targets for attacks.

Regional powerhouse Brazil slammed Maduro's move to appoint a constituent assembly as "a coup."

Dozens of heavily-armed criminals launched a three-hour assault on the vault of Prosegur, a firm specializing in the transport of cash.