In the municipality of Congo, in the state of Paraiba, in the driest territory of Brazil’s semi-arid region, an original ...

Inspired by the true stories during Jin Xiaoyu's journey last year to Joao Camara, a municipality in Rio Grande do Norte in ...

CABACEIRAS, Brazil, Nov 11 2024 (IPS) - The small community of Ribeira stands out in the Northeast, the poorest region of Brazil. There is no unemployment here. One in five inhabitants make a living ...

Robin Nagle, author of Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil (Routledge, 1997) "In the 1980s and '90s, the world was shaken by images of Brazilian street children, ...

The event in this wealthy beachfront neighbourhood in Recife - the capital of Pernambuco state in north-east Brazil - feels like a victory rally. The second and decisive round of the election is ...

A US$ 5.4bn green hydrogen hub has been planned in Ceará, northeast Brazil, and most probably the first-of-its-kind in Latin America. Set to be located at the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex ...

A hundred people are now known to have died as torrential rain triggered landslides and torrents of mud near the city of Recife in north-east Brazil. Rescue workers continue the search for people ...

A strain of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from an 86-year-old woman with a urinary infection admitted to hospital in Brazil's Northeast region in 2022 proved resistant to all ...

A strain of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from an 86-year-old woman with a urinary infection admitted to hospital in Brazil’s Northeast region in 2022 proved resistant to all ...