Brazil

SAO PAULO, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Brazil is set to reopen its Antarctic research station, which was destroyed by fire in 2012 and rebuilt by the China National Electronics Import and Export Corporation (CEIEC), Vice President Hamilton Mourao said on Sunday.

The Comandante Ferraz station on King George Island will be re-inaugurated on Tuesday, Jan. 14.

"We are going to give scientific research in the Antarctic a new impetus," said Mourao, who plans to travel to the region on Monday for the opening ceremony.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 9 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, will not attend the upcoming World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, presidential spokesperson, Otavio Rego Barros, said.

“The President and his assistants, analysed a series of aspects — economic, security, political. And those aspects, together, allowed the President to evaluate that he should not participate in this forum at this moment,” Rego Barros, said.

Bolsonaro mentioned the possibility of not attending the summit earlier this week, citing security reasons.

BRASILIA, Jan 8 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro assured that his country will maintain commercial relations with Iran despite the increase in tensions between that nation and the United States.

‘We trade with Iran, and we will continue that trade,’ the president told the press at his official residence in this capital, where he also made it clear that ‘Brazil repudiates terrorism anywhere in the world.’

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he will talk to the foreign minister about Iran’s decision to summon Brazil’s charge d’affaires over comments about the death of a senior Iranian general.

Bolsonaro said Brazil will maintain trade links with Iran and that Brazil rejects terrorism anywhere in the world.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 31 (NNN-Xinhua) — Rio de Janeiro expects 3 million people to attend a grand celebration including a fireworks show and music concerts on New Year’s Eve, local media reported.

The New Year celebration on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro is among the most famous ones in the world, which usually attracts millions of visitors from home and abroad.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Heading into his second year as Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro has held firm to his combative culture-warrior policies while feuding with critics at home and abroad — an approach that has thrilled many supporters while eroding his efforts to win allies and lift the world’s 9th largest economy out of its doldrums.

BRASILIA, Dec 28 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed into law an anti-crime bill that toughens measures to stem a rampant deadly crime wave, although he vetoed some parts of the bill, the government said.

The anti-crime package, which was approved by Brazil’s Senate earlier this month, toughens laws to tackle corruption, organized crime and violent crime practiced by criminal gangs. It also simplifies sentencing in some cases.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday night that he briefly lost his memory after falling at his presidential residence in Brasilia, the capital, earlier this week.

The president’s office disclosed on Monday that Bolsonaro, 64, had suffered a fall and was taken to a hospital Monday night for a brain scan, which detected no abnormalities. Bolsonaro spent the night in the hospital and was discharged on Tuesday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's oil output reached a record of 3 million barrels per day (bpd) in November, the Brazilian government said on Monday.

Last month's oil production reached 3.09 million bpd, breaking the previous record of 2.98 million bpd set in August, according to the state-run National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels.

In November, oil production grew 4.3 percent compared with October and 20.4 percent compared with November 2018.

BRASILIA, Dec 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized after suffering a fall at his official residence in Brasilia, the latest health scare for the 64-year-old, his office said.

Local media reported that Bolsonaro hit his head when he slipped in a bathroom at the Alvorada Palace.

He was taken to the Armed Forces Hospital where he underwent a cranial CT scan, “which did not detect any changes,” his communications office said in a statement.

The rightwing leader will remain at the hospital for observation, the statement added.