Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday tapped lawyer Ricardo de Aquino Salles to be his minister of environment, according to messages from the incoming president posted on social media.
Fourteen people including six hostages were killed early on Friday in a shootout between police and bank robbers attempting to blow up ATMs at two banks in a small town in northeastern Brazil, authorities said.
Brazil's President Michel Temer said on Friday he had reached an agreement with Roraima state Governor Suely Campos for a federal "intervention" in the state that borders Venezuela.
Brazil's next government is working to strike a deal between farmers and truckers over minimum freight prices by revising the policy, rather than throwing it out as many have demanded, the country's future infrastructure minister said on Friday.
Brazil's right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro named a pro-life evangelical pastor on Thursday to head a new ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights that will also take over the agency looking after the country's 850,000 indigenous people.
Brazilian President Michel Temer said on Thursday his government will leave a primary budget deficit of less than 130 billion reais (26.06 billion pounds) when he hands over the reins to President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Jan. 1.
Leading global oil traders Vitol [VITOLV.UL], Trafigura [TRAFGF.UL] and Glencore paid more than $30 million (£23.5 million) in bribes to employees at state-owned Brazilian company Petrobras in a scheme that may still be going on, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
An appeal to U.S. President Donald Trump by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro to lift Washington's opposition could allow Brazil's entry to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the finance ministry said on Wednesday.
Right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he plans to tackle the overhaul of Brazil's fiscally burdensome pension system with piecemeal reforms that can pass Congress, starting with an increase in the minimum age of retirement.
Brazil's right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who was voted in on an anti-corruption platform, said on Tuesday he would take action if a campaign funding investigation into his future chief of staff shows wrongdoing.