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A bus drivers’ strike stranded more than two million passengers in Sao Paulo on Wednesday, just 22 days before the Brazilian megacity hosts the...
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Police in Brazil will stage a 24-hour strike Wednesday in 14 states, including six that will host World Cup matches, their union said on...
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Inmates at a maximum-security prison in northeast Brazil, who had taken four guards and more than 100 visiting relatives hostage during a riot, released...
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Inmates in a prison in the northeastern Brazilian state of Sergipe took 122 hostages – nearly all of them visiting inmate relatives, a prison...
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Brazilian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a protest near the airport in Sao Paulo, the city hosting the football...
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Brazilian police compared notes with US law enforcement officers here Thursday as they geared up for a mammoth security operation at next month’s World...
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Brazil faced a test of its security preparations for the World Cup as demonstrators angry at the cost of the event joined protests and...
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday her government accepted people’s right to demonstrate during the World Cup but warned that it would not tolerate...
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Commuters faced chaos Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro as bus drivers went on strike, trashing dozens of buses in the latest walkout to hit...
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An “inappropriate response” from stressed pilots was responsible for the 2009 crash into the Atlantic of an Air France plane flying from Rio to...