Last Updated: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 23:17
Brazil`s attorney general says he will investigate claims that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knew about a cash-for-votes scheme in Congress.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 00:19
Brazil`s popular former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva started chemotherapy treatment for throat cancer on Monday.
Last Updated: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 15:37
Dilma Rousseff named Ideli Salvatti as her new Head of Institutional Relations.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 12:39
Dilma Rousseff has pledged to build on the policies of her predecessor Lula.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 11:11
Brazilian President steps down on Saturday as his successor is inaugurated.
Last Updated: Friday, September 3, 2010, 10:15
Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani is sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 23:46
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday warned of a setback over Iran`s nuclear programme if the UN Security Council failed to show a willingness to negotiate with Tehran following its fuel swap deal.
Last Updated: Friday, March 19, 2010, 11:13
Brazil`s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was fined for campaigning for his chosen successor well before such promotional activities were permitted.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:20
Fidel Castro is "exceptionally well" and appears recovered from a health crisis that has kept him out of the public eye for more than three years, Brazil`s President has said, according to reports by his country`s news media.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 09:36
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo health tests in a cardiac clinic this weekend, after a brief hospitalisation for high blood pressure, aides said on Friday.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 16:46
An "exhausted" Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was hospitalized in the northeastern city of Recife after suffering hypertension, the President`s office said early Thursday.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 09:36
US President Barack Obama wrote a letter to his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to express his concern about the situation in Iran and Honduras, officials said on Wednesday.
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