Brazil

At least six suspected members of the First Capital Command, or PCC, gang died and three other people were arrested during and after a shootout with police in Sao Paulo, officials said Tuesday. Read More

About 100 Indians of various ethnicities on Tuesday occupied Brazil's Health Ministry in this capital, while other groups blocked highways in the southern part of the country to demand that the authorities provide better health care for their people. Read More

The chief rival to Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc. United Parcel Service Inc. Latest from The Business Journals FedEx to build hub in Japan Atlanta investment managers love Coca-Cola Atlanta Life going back to the fundamentals Follow this company has signed an agreement to acquire Brazilian transportation and logistics company, Rapidão Cometa Logística e Transportes S.A. The move will give Memphis, Tenn.-based FedEx (NYSE: FDX) access to a nationwide domestic ground network in Brazil, South America's largest country. Read More

Twenty-eight years after the re-democratization of Brazil, the government will investigate human rights violations committed by the right-wing military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. Read More

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world's most challenging water issues, has announced that it will expand its dewatering rental offerings in Brazil over the next three years. Read More

"So many bikes! All the orange bikes everywhere!."Read More

Raw-sugar futures fell for the first time in three sessions on renewed concern that global output will exceed demand as exports expand from Brazil, the world's biggest producer. Read More

BRASILIA, Brazil — A judge on Brazil's high court is accusing former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of pressuring him to set aside a planned trial of the biggest scandal of his administration. Read More

Brazil's antitrust regulator Cade expects the number of mergers and acquisitions cases under its scrutiny to fall by 40 percent once new rules on corporate combinations take effect, the agency's president said on Tuesday. Read More

Last summer I wrote about a study of the greenhouse gas impact of large hydropower dams , how it's lower than often assumed but still varies widely based on where the dams are built. Read More