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Police raid in Rio favela sets off gunbattle that kills 9 people and wounds 2 officers

A police raid in a low-income neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro set off a gunbattle that killed nine people and wounded two officers, marking the latest incident in a wave of lethal policing in Brazil

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Dozens dead as police carry out raids in Brazil amid crackdown on criminals

Nine people were killed as police raided a favela in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday

Evening Standard

Shock and sadness in Rio favela after Brazil's early elimination from Women's World Cup

A group of girls and young women gathered early Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro’s working-class Manguinhos neighborhood to watch the Brazilian team compete in the Women’s World Cup and pray for a win in the make-or-break match

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Olympic gold-medal gymnast Gabby Douglas looks to compete at 2024 Paris Games

Douglas announced on her Instagram page Thursday that she is making a comeback attempt, a dozen years after her triumph in London in 2012 and eight years after her last competition, the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Brazil's Neymar fined $3.3 million for illegal artificial lake at mansion outside Rio

Brazilian soccer star Neymar was fined more than $3.3 million for violating local environmental rules during renovations at his mansion in the city of Mangaratiba outside Rio de Janeiro

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Fans call for Vinicus Jr and Kyrie Irving to launch NFL careers after viral clips

The Real Madrid superstar was enjoying his vacation back in his native Rio de Janeiro alongside NFL ace Justin Jefferson and showed his talents are not limited to soccer

Daily Mirror

Best holiday destinations for each month of the year - from Spain to Thailand

Cities including Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok, Dubai, Paris, Barcelona and Cape Town are great to look around, but also particularly challenging if you visit during the wrong time of the year

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Matteo Mancuso lets the good times roll and offers a masterclass in fingerstyle fusion guitar on new single Samba Party

Start the weekend right with the hottest young guitarist on the planet’s ode to “giant happy parties” and the Rio De Janeiro carnival

MusicRadar

Liverpool's 'twin city's' thousands of miles away

Liverpool has developed plenty of great relationships with other countries over the years

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QR code menus spark love-hate row in Rio, and beyond

RIO DE JANEIRO - Leafing through the leather-bound menu at a classic Rio de Janeiro restaurant, the tile-floored, wood-paneled Armazem Sao Thiago, 28-year-old Paula Cardoso says something that amounts to heresy in this establishment: "I prefer QR code menus."

Bangkok Post

Watch: Brazilians gather to hug Rio de Janeiro beach to celebrate World Oceans Day

Watch as Brazilians gather to hug a beach in Rio de Janeiro for World Oceans Day on Thursday, 8 June.

The Independent UK

'Girl from Ipanema' singer Astrud Gilberto dead at 83

RIO DE JANEIRO - Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose soft, beguiling voice made "The Girl from Ipanema" a worldwide sensation in the 1960s and provided a huge boost to the budding bossa nova genre, has died at age 83, her family said.

Bangkok Post

British reporter, Brazilian expert remembered a year after murder in Amazon

A year after the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira deep in the Amazon rainforest, friends, relatives and admirers gathered on Monday to call for justice and protection of Indigenous lands.

Reuters

Brazil's prosecutors block zipline construction at Rio's touristic Sugarloaf Mountain

Prosecutors in Brazil have blocked a decision to authorize the installment of ziplines at Rio de Janeiro's world-famous Sugarloaf Mountain, claiming they will damage the environment around one of the United Nations world’s heritage sites

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Actor found dead inside a wooden chest with his hands tied and metal wire around his neck

Jefferson "Jeff" Machado da Costa, who has appeared on a number of Brazilian shows, was found stuffed inside his own wooden chest at a rundown property in Rio de Janeiro's Campo Grande area earlier this week

AFP

UK director, Indigenous group ambushed in Brazil: activists

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - A British director, two noted Brazilian Indigenous activists, and 13 others were ambushed by dozens of armed men accused of illegally occupying territory in an Indigenous reservation in the Brazilian Amazon, people involved said Wednesday.

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Brazil's Petrobras scraps international price peg

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras said Tuesday it has ended its policy of pegging fuel prices to the international market, an overhaul promised by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that had initially caused investor jitters.

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Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic legacy is social inequality, decaying stadia and a defunct cable car

How Rio de Janeiro's defunct cable car became a symbol of the city's extreme social inequality and its disappointing Olympic legacy.

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U.S. Congressman George Santos agrees to settle lawsuit in Brazil

Republican U.S. congressman George Santos, who has Brazilian heritage, agreed to settle a lawsuit in which he was accused of bouncing checks to buy clothes in a Rio de Janeiro clothing store over a decade ago, a court in Rio said.

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US lawmaker Santos agrees to plea deal in Brazil fraud case

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Scandal-plagued US congressman George Santos, indicted this week on 13 charges, has agreed to a plea deal to settle a separate case over using a stolen checkbook in Brazil in 2008, officials said Friday.

AFP

Brazil's internet bill row, explained

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Messaging app Telegram calls it an "attack on democracy," Google says it "seriously threatens free speech" -- but what exactly is in Brazil's controversial measure to regulate disinformation online?

AFP

US lawmaker Santos faces court hearing in Brazil

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - A day after being arrested on 13 charges in the United States, Congressman George Santos faced more legal headaches in Brazil, where a court hearing was scheduled for Thursday in a fraud case against him.

Reuters

Rio de Janeiro to host G20 summit in 2024

The world' largest economies grouped in the G20 will hold their annual heads of state or government summit next year in Rio de Janeiro, state Governor Claudio Castro said.

AFP

AI could replace 80% of jobs 'in next few years': expert

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years -- but that's a good thing, says US-Brazilian researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru.

AFP

KondZilla, the entrepreneur of Brazilian favela funk

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - They say everything he touches turns to gold: KondZilla, the man behind the most popular YouTube channel in Latin America, has revolutionized Brazilian funk music, taking favela beats to a massive online audience.

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