The corruption case, involving the payment of bribes by meatpacker JBS SA, had paralyzed Temer's reform agenda for six months and weakened his government.

Brazil's Congress rejects corruption case against President Temer

Temer is under investigation for bribe taking and obstruction of justice related to the array of interlocking 'Car Wash' corruption scandals

Brazil: Supreme Court lashes out at Temer 'snooping'

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) voted 4-3 to acquit the embattled center-right president

Brazil election court votes not to oust President Michel Temer

Several thousand people demonstrated in Rio de Janeiro, shouting 'Temer out!' while about 2,000 held a similar rally in the capital Brasilia

Brazil President Temer put under investigation, refuses to quit

A total of 12.3 million people are looking for work at the end of 2016, a third more than in the last quarter a year earlier

Brazil: Unemployment at new high, touches 12% in last quarter of 2016

The riot is thought to have been a clash between Brazil's biggest drug gang and its main rival

Brazil prison gang war leaves 26 dead, majority beheaded

President Temer's austerity policies have prompted violent protests and were criticised last week by a UN expert as 'a historic mistake'

Brazil Senate approves 20-year austerity plan

The upper house voted 53 to 16 to lock in the spending ceiling

Brazil Senate approves 20-year spending freeze

The crash on Monday night shocked soccer fans the world over and plunged Brazil, South America's biggest nation, into mourning

Brazil's President Michel Temer arrives in Chapeco as bodies of soccer crash victims are returned