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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's hip surgery was successfully completed, and he is now awake and well, his doctors said on Friday afternoon. Lula underwent surgery for hip arthrosis caused by the extremely painful wear and tear of the cartilage on the head of the femur. The procedure, with general anesthetic, is aimed at restoring the function of his right hip by arthroplasty, which involves removing the head of the femur to implant a prosthesis.

Brazil's jobless rate dropped for the fifth consecutive rolling quarter in the three months ended in August, reaching its lowest since early 2015 as the labor market in Latin America's largest...

Studies by Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras show that a single oil block of Amapa's equatorial margin could total more than 5.6 billion barrels of oil, the country's mines and energy...

By Bruno Kelly and Steven Grattan MANACAPURU, Brazil (Reuters) - Some rivers winding through Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest have piled up with dead f...

The head of Brazil's state oil firm Petrobras said on Thursday it will sign a memorandum of understanding with mining giant Vale to study potential joint ventures in renewable energy, even as looks to...