RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva kicked off a global effort on Wednesday to end hunger and extreme poverty, aiming to make it a hallmark of Brazil's G20 ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in ...

BRASILIA, July 12 (Reuters) - More than 100 countries are expected to back a global alliance against hunger that Brazil has proposed to counter the increasing number of people going hungry in the ...

During a private audience with Pope Leo XIV, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva invited the pope to the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, being held for the first time in the heart of ...

TEKOHAW, Brazil (AP) — At dawn in this small Amazonian village in Brazil's Para state, flocks of noisy green parrots soar overhead as children run and play between wooden homes, kicking up sandy soil ...

GUARIBAS, Brazil — For generations, the women of this town would trudge more than a mile a day to a spring, wait hours in line, occasionally quarrel when the flow dropped to a trickle, then head home ...

What if the best medicine isn't a pill or vaccine — but it's cold cash? The study is impressive in its scale. Researchers combined two Brazilian datasets — one from the Ministry of Health and one that ...

Former Marxist guerilla Dilma Rousseff became Brazil’s first female president Saturday, vowing to use expanding oil wealth to end poverty in Latin America’s biggest economy without overspending. Under ...