Brazil

A 20-minute shootout between police officers and armed robbers caused a bloodbath in one of Brazil's most violent states.

Experts hope the procedure will give hope to women with fertility issues.

The attacker reportedly shouted: "Everyone's going to die" before launching the attack.

Three women were touched 157 times over the course of less than four hours in a São Paulo nightclub.

Bolsonaro, a former army captain himself, will become Brazil's first far-right leader since the 1964-85 military regime, a period he has expressed nostalgia for.

The 4,000-year-old mounds cover an area the size of Idaho.

A recent Twitter exchange between the National Security Council and Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro shows that love is in the air.

Ernesto Araujo wants to "help Brazil and the world liberate themselves from globalist ideology."

The International Monetary Fund said inflation could top 10 million percent in 2019.

"These tyrants fancy themselves strongmen and revolutionaries, icon and luminaries," Bolton said in his speech.

Investigators believe items related to the Santeria religion were confiscated by traffickers and used "to coerce" the victims.

Violent crime killed nearly 64,000 Brazilians last year.

"Had a very good conversation with the newly elected President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who won his race by a substantial margin," Trump wrote on Twitter.

Jair Bolsonaro, dubbed the "Donald Trump of the Tropics," clinched the presidency with 55.1 percent of the vote, despite concerns about his misogynistic and anti-gay rhetoric. What's at stake for Latin America's largest country?

Right-wing Social Liberal Party hopeful Jair Bolsonaro and former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad of the left-leaning Workers Party offer different solutions to Brazil's economic woes. But who will prevail?

Bolsonaro's popularity has grown dramatically since the first round of voting took place on October 7. Prior to that, he was predicted to narrowly lose to his opponent in the expected event of a run-off.

Jair Bolsonaro, dubbed the "Trump of the Tropics," ran a divisive campaign that capitalized on nostalgia in Brazil for authoritarian rule.

"Both Haddad and Bolsonaro have high rejection rates, and in the runoff most Brazilians will be voting against the candidate they dislike the most."

"Bolsonaro is a Brazilian version of Trump," Allana Ferreira, a Brasilia-based journalist told Newsweek. She explained that many people think Brazil needs someone with "a strong hand" to remove the current political class.

Tens of thousands of files, chat logs and secretly recorded footage linked to the Julian Assange–led operation were leaked.

The far-right politician was shown to be leading in a recent poll, with 22 percent of the vote.

A bird depicted in the 2011 children's animation "Rio" is among species conservationists fear have gone extinct.

On September 2, the National Museum of Brazil was struck by a devastating fire that gutted the 200-year-old building, destroying an estimated 18 million artifacts.

Many Venezuelans have complained that it has become increasingly difficult to obtain passports and official documents, such as marriage and birth certificates, as their country sinks further into an economic crisis.

Brazilian President Michel Temer called the loss of much the National Museum's 20 million items "a sad day for all Brazilians."

Fire at National Museum in Rio de Janeiro destroys more than 20 million items, including archaeological finds and historical memorabilia.

Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela and the U.S. together accounted for half of the 251,000 gun deaths in 2016.

"You've no idea what it's like [in Venezuela]. Whole families eat from the trash."

When millions of Muslims are set to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, there's a good chance they'll be eating food from South America.

Denis Furtado was captured by police after four days on the run in July.