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Brazil is lifting visa requirements for tourists from Australia, Canada, Japan and the United States starting Wednesday to encourage travel to the Rio Olympics,...
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Pulling in at one of Rio’s swishest buildings, the driver of the blue luxury car turns on the blinkers, pauses for the security gate...
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A train has made the journey for the first time along Rio de Janeiro’s new underground metro line, considered a crucial link for public...
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Three members of Spain’s Olympic sailing team were robbed at gunpoint in a popular tourist area of Rio de Janeiro, where the Summer Games...
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The Rio Olympics in August will give Brazil’s battered economy only a limited shot in the arm, Moody’s ratings agency said Monday, as bad...
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Embattled President Dilma Rousseff greeted the Olympic flame in Brazil on Tuesday, promising not to allow a raging political crisis, which could see her...
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Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday launched the 100 day countdown to hosting South America’s first Olympic Games with government and global sports leaders insisting...
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Amnesty International said Wednesday that inhabitants of Olympic host Rio de Janeiro’s slum favelas are “living in terror” after 11 people were killed in...
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On the streets of Rio de Janeiro, it feels like a long time since the heady days in 2009 when the city was named...
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Ferocity may sound like a good thing in martial arts, but when Popole Misenga started training for his Olympic judo team he was, well,...