The UN human rights committee said corruption proceedings against former Brazilian president violated due process.

Heavy rains caused mudslides that killed at least 14 people in southern coastal cities and the Baixada Fluminense area of Rio de Janeiro state.

Two Brazilian Indigenous boys aged seven and nine have been found after surviving 25 days lost in the Amazon rainforest.

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva still holds a healthy lead in this year's presidential race over right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, according to a new poll released on Monday.

The death toll from landslides and devastating floods in the Brazilian city of Petropolis has risen to 146, including 26 children.

An increasingly desperate search was under way on Friday for people buried by a deluge of mud that swept through the Brazilian city of Petropolis leaving what resembled "scenes of war" according to President Jair Bolsonaro.

At least 78 people were killed in devastating flash floods and landslides that hit the picturesque Brazilian city of Petropolis.

Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rainfall killed at least 18 people Tuesday in the hills above Rio de Janeiro. 

Landslides and flooding from heavy rains in Sao Paulo state kill at least 18 people.

Ten people died after a cliff collapsed onto tourist boats in a lake in Brazil, officials said Sunday after the bodies of two missing people were found.