Dilma Rousseff

Brazilian companies push for deal to minimize Petrobras scandal

Some of the companies caught up in a massive corruption scandal at state-run oil firm Petrobras are ...

Feb 21, 2015 06:32 AM EST

Brazil probes link between HSBC Swiss accounts, Petrobras scandal: sources

Brazil's tax watchdog opened a probe on whether about a dozen people involved in the Petrobras corru...

Feb 15, 2015 06:50 AM EST

Brazilians hoard water, prepare for possible drastic rationing

Brazilians are hoarding water in their apartments, drilling homemade wells and taking other emergenc...

Feb 12, 2015 07:06 AM EST

Petrobras CEO says has 'full autonomy', questions graft loss

The new chief executive officer of Brazil's Petrobras said on Tuesday that he has full autonomy to d...

Feb 11, 2015 06:39 AM EST

Brazil's Rousseff popularity plunges amid scandal, bad economy

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's popularity has plunged by nearly half since her recent re-elect...

Feb 09, 2015 04:32 AM EST

Brazil police question ruling party treasurer in Petrobras probe

Brazilian federal police said on Thursday they had started questioning João Vaccari Neto, the treas...

Feb 06, 2015 04:50 AM EST

Brazil's Congress elects Rousseff critic as speaker

Brazil's Congress elected a conservative as speaker of the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday in a setbac...

Feb 02, 2015 09:00 AM EST

Failure to stop Petrobras scandal could haunt Brazil's Rousseff

When federal investigators first identified signs of corruption at Petrobras in 2009, Dilma Rousseff...

Jan 03, 2015 12:22 AM EST

Petrobras hit with U.S. class action suit over $98 billion in securities

Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA and some of its executives were hit with a U.S...

Dec 26, 2014 08:33 PM EST

Brazil leader Rousseff's popularity undented by Petrobras scandal

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's approval rating has not suffered from a widening corruption sca...

Dec 18, 2014 08:30 AM EST

Brazil dictatorship probe urges prosecuting military, companies

A "truth commission" investigating abuses during Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship called for the prosec...

Dec 10, 2014 07:37 PM EST

Brazil top prosecutor says Petrobras management should go

Brazil's prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot on Tuesday called for the replacement of state-controlled ...

Dec 10, 2014 09:11 AM EST

Amazon Indians report more death threats after activists slain

Indians on the Peru-Brazil border say they continue to receive death threats from loggers after the ...

Dec 08, 2014 09:28 AM EST

Brazil government says will not interfere with Petrobras probe

The Brazilian government will not interfere with a police investigation into suspected graft at stat...

Nov 17, 2014 02:25 AM EST

Brazil police detain 27 more in Petrobras-linked probe

Brazil's federal police were serving 27 additional arrest warrants on Friday in a broad money-launde...

Nov 14, 2014 08:26 AM EST

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