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Deadly raid in Rio favela sparks police violence complaints

A raid of Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of favelas that left at least 18 people dead has sparked renewed complaints of excessive police violence and ignited debate over how to handle crime ahead of state and presidential elections

The Independent UK

At least 18 killed in gang-related police raid in Rio de Janeiro

Tactical teams from civil and military police raid a complex of slums in Rio de Janeiro to take down an alleged criminal organisation, but public defenders say there are signs of human rights violations carried out during the operation.

ABC News

At least 18 killed in latest deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro

At least 18 people died on Thursday during a major police raid in a dense warren of Rio de Janeiro slums, state military police said, in the latest bloody confrontation in Brazil's second-largest city.

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Rio de Janeiro police conduct deadly raid in Alemao favelas

Multiple deaths have been reported during a police raid on Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of favelas, or low-income communities

The Independent UK

Man kidnapped and held for £30,000 ransom after hiring two sex workers while on holiday

Rio de Janeiro authorities are still searching for two further men linked to the kidnapping, including one individual who was spotted in the lobby of the holiday rental in Brazil

Daily Mirror

Rio de Janeiro favela sets example by processing own waste

The low-income Enchanted Valley community just outside Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest National Park has managed something no other favela has done: built its own biosystem to process its waste

The Independent UK

Family, friends mourn British journalist killed in Brazil

Gathered at a cemetery on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, friends and relatives paid their final respects to British journalist Dom Phillips, killed in the Brazilian Amazon while researching for a book about how to save the world’s largest rainforest

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Thirty years of climate summits: where have they got us?

Highlights and lowlights of Cop since Rio 1992, when countries set up a system to tackle climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

A doll brings pride, identity for Brazil Indigenous woman

Luakam Anambé wanted her newborn granddaughter to have a doll – something she’d never owned as a child working in slave-like conditions in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

The Independent UK

Monitors in Brazilian airport started showing porno flicks

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Tribune News Service

Brazil: at least 21 people killed during police raid in Rio favela

Death toll puts the incident among Rio’s deadliest police operations in recent history

The Guardian - US

11 dead in Rio de Janeiro police raid shootout

A police raid in Rio de Janeiro left 11 people dead including an innocent woman hit by a stray bullet, authorities in the Brazilian city said.

Evening Standard

Eleven dead in police raid on drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro

Eleven people were shot dead in a slum on the north side of Rio de Janeiro early on Tuesday during a police raid to capture heads of a drug-trafficking organization, police said.

Reuters

Rio Architects' founding director announces retirement

Huw Lloyd Jones will leave at the end of this year after 22 years since co-founding the Cardiff-headquartered firm

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The Guardian - UK

Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends review – a glorious all-star memorial service

Judi Dench, Rob Brydon, Imelda Staunton and Bernadette Peters joined the cast for this superb tribute to a genius

Dublin Live

Katie Taylor says 'biggest disappointment' of Rio 2016 pushed her to 'greatest comeback'

Four years after winning gold at the London Olympics, Taylor suffered a shock loss to Finland’s Mira Potkonen at the 2016 Games in Rio

Daily Mirror

Russian Olympian vows to boycott Olympics until country's flag is restored

Russian fencing star Sofya Velikaya is a veteran of four Olympic Summer Games, having won gold medals at Rio in 2016 and Tokyo last summer, as well as three silvers

Reuters

Brazilian town builds Christ statue taller than Rio's

Rio de Janeiro's famous Christ the Redeemer has competition.

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Jeez That’s Big: New Christ Statue Is One Of Tallest In The World

Work on ‘Christ the Protector’ was completed in the municipality of Encantado in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Daily Mirror

Rio Carnival tragedy as girl, 11, dies in freak accident after falling from float

Raquel Antunes da Silva bravely fought for her life for 36 hours at the Souza Aguiar Municipal Hospital, but she eventually succumbed to internal bleeding and died on Friday

The Guardian - UK

‘Carnival is politics’: revellers bring anti-Bolsonaro sentiment to Rio’s streets

With elections less than six months away, many see festival as a chance to vent their anger at far-right president

France 24

Rio's flamboyant Carnival parade returns after pandemic hiatus

Colorful floats and flamboyant dancers are delighting tens of thousands jammed into Rio de Janeiro's iconic Sambadrome, putting on a delayed Carnival celebration after the pandemic halted the dazzling displays.

Asharq Al-Awsat

'So Much Joy': Brazil Holds First Carnival since Covid

Rio de Janeiro's carnival, a glittering, sequin-studded festival of the flesh, exploded back to life Friday with the first famed samba school parades since Covid-19 started devastating Brazil. After two long years, a flood of dancers and drummers reclaimed the iconic beach city's "Sambadrome," its dedicated carnival parade venue, which…

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'So much joy': Brazil holds first carnival since Covid-19

Rio de Janeiro's carnival, a glittering, sequin-studded festival of the flesh, exploded back to life Friday with the first famed samba school parades since Covid-19 started devastating Brazil.

ABC News

Rio de Janeiro's dazzling Carnival parade resumes after COVID-19 pandemic hiatus

Ahead of the first time Carnival has been held since 2020, Rio de Janeiro's top samba schools begin putting on their delayed parades.

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