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A total of 11 people have been killed over the last three years on construction projects for the Rio Olympics, an official told AFP...
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Brazilian police working to protect the Rio Olympics have liaised with their French counterparts several times to learn lessons from November’s attacks in Paris....
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French prosecutors are investigating suspicions of corruption surrounding bidding for this year’s Rio Olympics and the 2020 Games in Tokyo, a judicial source told...
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Brazil may have so far escaped the radar of radical Islamist groups, but the Rio Olympics is taking no chances on terrorism when the...
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The one-year countdown to the Rio Olympics began Wednesday with officials promising to overcome Brazil’s usual chaos in a Summer Games that will transform...
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Rio de Janeiro hosts South America’s first Olympic Games a year from this week and the iconic, contradictory city of sweeping beaches, street crime...
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JOHANNESBURG (voa) – Delegates from around the globe begin meeting in Johannesburg Monday for the U.N.-sponsored World Summit on Sustainable Development. The Johannesburg meeting...