Brazil News
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A 15-year-old Brazilian shot dead by police last week was carrying a mobile phone that caught the incident on camera, according to video published Thursday by a news site.
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A new study using satellite-based imagery from 1990 to 2010 shows the real extent of tropical rainforest deforestation around the globe. The rate of deforestation was found to have accelerated by 62 percent.
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday refused to accept the credentials of the Indonesian ambassador to demonstrate her anger at last month's execution of a Brazilian citizen for drug smuggling.
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A Brazilian samba school shrugged off a controversy over alleged funding by an African strongman president and went on to claim its 13th win at the Rio Carnival championship on Wednesday.
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A Dali-style homage to Rio ahead of the city's 450th birthday, parachutists landing on the piste and a polemic on the funding of an elite samba school paying tribute to Africa marked Monday's carnival parade.
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Tens of thousands of people defied a thunderstorm to pack Rio's Sambadrome as elite dance schools paraded in dazzling costumes and revelers shed inhibitions at street parties.
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The death toll from a blast which ripped through a Petrobras oil rig off Brazil has risen to five, with another four people still missing, the rig's owner said Thursday.
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Rio De Janeiro -
An explosion ripped through a Petrobras rig off Brazil Wednesday, killing three people, injuring 10 and leaving six others missing in a new blow to the embattled state oil giant.
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Mounting allegations that her party received hundreds of millions of dollars in a kickbacks scandal engulfing oil giant Petrobras have sent Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's poll ratings tumbling and could fatally undermine her.
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28 inmates at a prison in Brazil escaped after three women in dominatrix costumes tricked guards into thinking they were going to have an orgy.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Police on Friday seized a piano, the equivalent of $45,700 in cash, six cars and other possessions from the home of Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista, once Brazil's richest man, who is on trial for insider trading.
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Brasilia -
Brazilian police killed 13 men suspected of plotting to rob a bank in the northeastern city of Salvador on Friday, officials said.
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A six-year-old Brazilian girl has died after being eaten alive by piranhas when she fell into the river she was canoeing along on January 27. The piranhas tore all the flesh from her legs.
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Samsung will be acquiring Simpress, Brazil's largest printing service company. The acquisition will be announced on Monday.
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Havana -
Fidel Castro is "in very good health," a Brazilian activist said Wednesday, a day after meeting the former Cuban leader after weeks of feverish speculation concerning the 88-year-old's medical condition.
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Sao Paulo riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of people demonstrating against a rise in public transport fares.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Stay away from the windows, don't come out of hiding until the shootout is over and keep your hands visible to police at all times.
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Brazil's president was "distressed and outraged" after Indonesia defied her repeated pleas and executed one of her countrymen convicted of drug trafficking, a spokesman said Saturday.
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Sao Paulo protesters clashed with police who used tear gas and sound bombs to disperse crowds, as thousands rallied against Brazil's latest round of bus fare hikes.
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Rio De Janeiro -
At least 150 people have been injured Tuesday in two collisions between rapid transit (BRT) buses being rolled out in Rio ahead of next year's Olympic Games, officials said.
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Tensions were high in Sao Paulo after police resorted to tear gas and detained some 50 protesters, as thousands took to the streets against the country's latest round of transport fare hikes.
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Two trains serving Brazil's much-criticized commuter rail service collided outside Rio de Janeiro, injuring 158 people, authorities said Tuesday.
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Bras -
Brazil's ruling Workers Party would back former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to seek a third term in 2018, the country's chief of staff said in an interview published Sunday.Aloizio Mercadante told the Folha de S.
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff kicked off a second term, vowing to tackle corruption and revamp the economy as her government reels from a series of setbacks.
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Inmates at a prison in southern Brazil have taken seven staff hostage in the latest in a series of mutinies at penitentiaries in recent months, Brazilian media reported.
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Before her husband died, Katia Abreu was a housewife who didn't know a cow from a bull.
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A debate about sexual violence in Brazil sparked by a lawmaker's comments on the floor of Congress has spread beyond government chambers, triggering a national debate about rape and sexism in the South American nation.
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Rio De Janeiro -
The quality of the water in Rio's Guanabara Bay is a continuing embarrassment, With promises by Brazil to clean up the sewage-filled waters and little to nothing being done, the problem has gotten worse. Researchers have found a "super-bug" in the waters.
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A Brazilian man accused of stabbing a woman to death in a Rio suburb has confessed to have murdered 41 people, almost all of them women, "for the fun of it," police said Thursday."He wanted to kill women -- white women, not black ones.
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Brazilian megalopolis Sao Paulo saw violent storms and heavy rains Wednesday, causing flooding and traffic chaos as authorities announced a state of alert in some parts of the city.
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The Brazilian border town of Epitaciolândia where the Facebook club is located. www.en.wikipedia.org
Protesters in Rio de Janeiro over oil royalties. YouTube
Tourist guide in bahiana outfit on the street of Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Stylish houses in the centre of the city of Fortaleza at Dragão do Mar.
Inside of Caixa Bank in São Paulo where there's art gallery open to public on Sundays.
Survival has released two films highlighting the
plight of the Guarani Indians ©Survival
African-Brazilians on the street of Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
Terrorists are free to cross borders in this no man's land
Circular geoglyph Amazon Google Earth
Canadian Michele Yakashiro volunteers for MonaVie's MORE Project in Sao Paulo, Brazil. MORE Project
The second annual Brazil Day Canada Festival in downtown Toronto.
The fish are caught in traps and smoked ©Survival
The Rocinha favela, or shanty town, in Rio is one of South America's largest.
Empanadas Photo by Alpha via Flickr
On the metro in São Paulo, Brazil.
Confederation Cup teams Spain and Brazil presenting autographed t-shirts to Nelson Mandela. YouTube
Roaring waters of the waterfalls in Nacional Parque de Iguazu, Argentina.
Folk sculptures in front of Centro de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, Ceará, 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
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