Brazil

The deaths of two people, muggings and a dangerous heat wave left legions of Taylor Swift's Brazilian fans angry and disappointed in the three-day Rio de Janeiro leg of the pop superstar’s Eras Tour.

Taylor Swift postponed an Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Saturday after a 23-year-old fan died during her Friday night show, according to a message posted on the singer's Instagram.

The southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and neighboring Santa Catarina are reeling after a devastating cyclone killed 27 people and displaced thousands.

Brazil’s Amazon Summit has come to a close with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests that has been welcomed as an important step in countering climate change. But it did not include any of the concrete commitments to end deforestation sought by some environmentalists.

It's been 14 years since the eight countries of the Amazon region convened in a summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization. Leaders will discuss serious issues they have in common including deforestation and illegal gold mining.

The Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim has approved a law that designates the Komi Memem River "as a living entity and subject to rights." The law represents the latest effort to draw attention to a wave of invasions that had intensified under the rule of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, a historical opponent of Indigenous land rights.

It was once Latin America’s largest landfill. Now, a decade after Rio de Janeiro closed it down and redoubled efforts to recover the surrounding expanse of highly polluted swamp, crabs, snails, fish and birds are once again populating the mangrove forest.

She is repeatedly named world player of the year. But a World Cup title has eluded the Brazilian superstar, and at 37, this may be her last shot at it.

He helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but defied confinement to any single genre.

COMMENTARY The possible breach of Jair Bolsonaro's free speech rights should concern First Amendment-faithful Americans — and democratic citizens of the Americas.

housands of Amazon Indigenous are leaving their rainforest villages in a migration to urban areas that is reshaping their lives, their villages and their new cities.

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro goes on trial, facing charges that he spread false information about Brazil's election system.