President Jair Bolsonaro swore in his new chief-of-staff Wednesday in a move to shore up congressional support for legislation, and also seen as aimed at stifling an impeachment push and scoring votes in Brazil's poorer northeast region.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro gives govt's 'soul' to centrist bloc

Brasilia [Brazil], August 5 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Brazil has exceeded 20 million, the Ministry of Health said.
The ministry said that over the past 24 hours, the country recorded 40,716 infections, and 1,175 patients with COVID-19 died.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in Brazil, 20,026,533 people have gotten infected, and 559,607 patients have died of the disease. (ANI/Sputnik)

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Brazil advanced to the Olympic gold-medal match in men's soccer by beating Mexico 4-1 in a penalty shootout following a scoreless draw on Tuesday. Reinier converted the winning kick for Brazil, which will defend its gold medal from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics against the winner of Tuesday's late match between Spain and host Japan.

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Lilium, a German start-up making electric jets that can take off and land vertically, has announced plans to sell 220 of its vehicles for up to $1 billion to Brazilian airliner Azul.

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Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) decided on Monday to open an investigation into far-right President Jair Bolsonaro for his statements claiming there will be fraud in next year’s elections.

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Brazil court to investigate Bolsonaro for baseless warnings of voter fraud

By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA - A group of 18 active and former Brazilian Supreme Court justices, who also act as judges in the Supreme Electoral Court, said on Monday that the election system is free of fraud in the face of consistent attacks by President Jair Bolsonaro. Over the weekend, demonstrators demanded that there be a paper trail of printed ballots, changing the current

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Attacked by Bolsonaro, Brazil's top judges say electronic voting is free of fraud

By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA - Government supporters rallied in several Brazilian cities on Sunday to call for changes in the country's electronic voting system, which far-right President Jair Bolsonaro says is not trustworthy. Bolsonaro has increasingly insisted on the adoption of printed ballots that can be audited, a mixed system in which electronic urns would also print out receipts

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BRASILIA -- Brazil has had 20,503 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 464 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Sunday. Read More

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