Brazil News
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Federal police in Brazil on Tuesday raided the home of the head of President Jair Bolsonaro's far-right party as part of a probe into a campaign financing scandal.
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By AFP
Caracas -
Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA on Thursday denied accusations by Brazil that it was responsible for a massive oil spill that has polluted beaches on its northeastern Atlantic coast.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Large blots of oil that have turned up on more than 130 Brazilian beaches are "very probably" of Venezuelan origin, Brazil's environment minister said on Wednesday.
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By AFP
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Trucker Erik Fransuer spends months at a time driving back and forth on highways that cut through the Amazon in northern Brazil, delivering soy or corn to river ports.
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By AFP
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Dengue-resistant mosquitoes breed in a Rio de Janeiro laboratory, producing offspring infected with bacteria packing a punch in the fight against the deadly virus, which is exploding across Brazil this year.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
After a state-run theater in Brazil suddenly dropped his LGBT-themed stage show "Gritos," Artur Ribeiro began to worry it was curtains for his company under President Jair Bolsonaro.
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By AFP
New York -
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison used his UN speech on Wednesday to slam critics of his country's climate record and to suggest Swedish teen Greta Thunberg was being exploited by others for ulterior motives.
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By AFP
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Brazilian tribal chief Raoni on Wednesday hit back at President Jair Bolsonaro's criticism of him at the United Nations, saying the far-right leader should leave "before something serious happens.
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Brazilian scientists are racing against time to finish building a particle accelerator the size of the Maracana football stadium before government funds run out or it is superseded by rival technology.
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday it was a lie that the Amazon was being devastated by fire and accused countries critical of him of having a "colonialist spirit.
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By AFP
Bras -
Brazil's defense minister said on Monday 63 people were arrested and issued fines amounting to $8.7 million after the military was sent to fight raging fires in the Amazon rainforest.
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Brazil's leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday opted to stay behind bars rather than apply for home detention, as he maintained his innocence of corruption charges, his lawyers said.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
The fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames.
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Brazilian police said Friday they have enough evidence to charge employees of mining giant Vale and its German auditor over false information used to certify the safety of a tailings dam that collapsed, killing hundreds.
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By AFP
Bras -
A Brazilian state judge on Thursday ordered mining giant Vale to pay nearly $3 million to the families of three victims of a tailings dam collapse that killed hundreds of people.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left hospital Monday eight days after another operation on his stomach following his stabbing at an campaign rally last year.
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By AFP
Members of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon in northern Brazil on Friday called for wildcat miners to be allowed to prospect for gold on their land, saying it was a source of income.
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By AFP
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At least 11 people, many of them elderly, were killed when a fire swept through a hospital in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro as staff and desperate visitors battled to rescue patients from smoke-filled wards.
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By AFP
Bras -
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro had a feeding tube removed from his nose on Friday, doctors said, five days after another operation on his stomach, where he was stabbed during a campaign rally last year.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
A fire erupted in a hospital in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, leaving at least 10 people dead and forcing medical staff and desperate relatives to rescue patients from the smoke-filled wards.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
At least 10 people have died in a fire in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, the fire service in the Brazilian city said, with preliminary reports suggesting a short circuit in a generator could have sparked the blaze.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will need four days more than planned to recover from abdominal surgery, his spokesman said on Thursday."The president of the republic's team of doctors has decided to keep him away from the exercise of his duties...
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Brazil's foreign minister charged Wednesday that international efforts to fight climate change amounted to a plot to destroy national sovereignty as his country faces intense criticism over Amazon fires.
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said he would return to work Tuesday following lengthy abdominal surgery at the weekend.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Brazil's Supreme Court on Sunday made it illegal to ban any LGBT publication, after a lower court allowed conservative mayor to confiscate comic books at the Rio Book Fair containing content he considered "inappropriate" for minors.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
A comic book showing a kiss between two male superheroes sold out rapidly at Rio de Janeiro's book fair Friday after the city's evangelical mayor demanded it be withdrawn.
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Bras -
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro taunted UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet Wednesday over her father's death under 1970s Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, sparking a new international row after she raised concerns over a spike in killings by police.
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro will participate by video in a regional summit on fires that have devastated the Amazon, his spokesman said Tuesday, after previously stating he would skip it altogether.
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Relatives of victims of the 2009 Rio-Paris air crash have provided evidence they say supports their claim that Airbus knew of problems with an onboard instrument five years earlier, it emerged Sunday.
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro will undergo surgery to correct an incisional hernia, his fourth operation since he was stabbed nearly a year ago during his presidential campaign, his office said Sunday.
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Brazil Image
Santa Catarina, a state in southern Brazil. DJC
A firework is set off during an anti-World Cup protest near Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on July 13, 2014 Yasuyoshi Chiba, AFP/File
Protesters in Rio de Janeiro over oil royalties. YouTube
An intricate wooden dam is at the heart of the
Enawene Nawe's Yãkwa ritual. © Survival
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Awá man from Juriti survey the forest which is being illegally destroyed by settlers, Awa, Brazil. © Fiona Watson/Survival courtesy of Survival International
The beach in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro-- where it all started.
This no man's land between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay allows for Iranian terrorists to cross borders undetected
Adult female southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus Say, feeding. Photograph by James Newman, University of Florida. University of Florida
Old architecture of Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil with Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos on the right.
Fans burned a shirt with Neymar Number 10 on it and then ripped it to shreds in a show of their disappointment for the team. They also had some salty words for players. YouTube
File photo: Afro-Brazilian woman and her child. Antônio Milena/ABr
Members of the vanquished Brazilian team hold the shirt of injured star Neymar prior to the kick off of the semifinal match at Minnerao Stadium, Belo Horizonte. CBF
Fire at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil Screen Capture
Two autographed t-shirts from Confederations Cup players Brazil and Spain are to be gifted to Nelson Mandela. YouTube
Germany's Tony Kroos who scored a brace against Brazil celebrates with teammates Khedira and Klose. DFB
Farms on the Amazon floodplain in Brazil
Brazil's forward Neymar celebrates after scoring against Croatia during the opening match of the 2014 World Cup at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo, on June 12, 2014 Fabrice Coffrini, AFP
Azulejos, hand painted blue ceramic tiles, typical decorative element in landscape of Portugal, here in Igreja e Convento de São Francisco, Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Brazil's Amazon rainforest and deforestation. CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture/flickr
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