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Zona Franca review – a fleet-footed favela dance party

With incredible moves from Rio’s Cia Suave, Alice Ripoll choreographs a joyful celebration of young lives

The Guardian - UK

Brazilian Grand Prix signs F1 contract to 2030

The championship returned to the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace in 1990, after a switch to Rio de Janeiro 12 years previously, and in 2020 event officials renewed terms with F1 for another five years.

Autosport

Brazil's army deployed to transport hubs in crackdown on organised crime

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday he is sending the armed forces to boost security at some of the country's most important airports, ports and international borders as part of a renewed effort to tackle organised crime in Latin America's largest nation.

France 24

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Brazil to militarize key airports, ports and international borders in crackdown on organized crime

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says armed forces will boost security at some of the country's most important airports, ports and along its international borders as part of a renewed effort to tackle organized crime

The Independent UK

Brazil slave trafficker’s links to top bank spark debate over reparations

Researchers are at last revealing how slavery and the slave trade shaped the country’s institutions

The Guardian - US

Rio de Janeiro deploys helicopters in extra security after a criminal gang torches 35 buses

Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are deploying helicopters and other extra security after members of a criminal gang set fire to at least 35 buses in apparent retaliation for the police slaying of one of their key members

The Independent UK

Paramilitary gangs in Brazil torch more than 35 buses in Rio de Janeiro attacks

Criminals reportedly set fire to at least 35 buses, four lorries and a train, apparently in retaliation for the killing of a senior paramilitary leader by police

The Guardian - UK

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Streets of purple haze: how the South American jacaranda became a symbol of Australian spring

Jacaranda season is beginning across Australia as an explosion of vivid blue spreads in a wave from north to south. We think of jacarandas as a signature tree of various Australian cities. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth all feature avenues of them.

The Conversation

Rio de Janeiro's security forces launch raids in 3 favelas to target criminals

Rio de Janeiro’s state government has deployed hundreds of police officers to three of the city’s sprawling and low-income neighborhoods

The Independent UK

4 doctors were gunned down on a Rio beach and there are suspicions of a political motive

Four doctors have been shot — three of them fatally — beside a beach in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in what may have been a politically motivated execution

The Independent UK

‘Even Lucifer was using a fan’: Brazil bakes as mercilessly hot spring begins

Having just emerged from its warmest winter since 1961, the country is sweltering amid unforgiving and unseasonal temperatures

The Guardian - US

Waste Land: moving documentary sifts through Rio landfill to find human stories

In a film that celebrates the power of creativity, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz collaborates with pickers at a rubbish dump to create art from salvaged material

The Guardian - AU

Inequality, UNSC reforms at centre of Brazil G20: President Lula

Brazil fought for the alliance and has competence in it. Brazil will prioritize inequality, reform multilateral institutions, convert African debt into public works and make G20 more democratic.

The Hindu

Lula says Putin will not be arrested at Brazil G20 meeting

Brazilian president says Russian leader will be invited to the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year.

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The Independent UK

Samba reggae group to bring sustainability to forefront at Notting Hill Carnival

Dende Nation are to don outfits made in Brazilian Samba schools and diverted from landfill.

The Independent UK

5-year-old buried in Rio after being killed during protest against police violence

A 5-year-old girl has been buried in Rio de Janeiro, two days after she was fatally shot as shantytown residents protested against alleged police violence

The Guardian - US

‘The state is murderous’: Brazilians vow justice for 13-year-old boy shot by police

Thiago Menezes Flausino, who dreamed of becoming a footballer, was the ninth child to die in a shooting this year in Rio

The Independent UK

On this day in 2016: Mo Farah retains Olympic 10,000m title in Rio

Farah added to his gold medals won at London 2012.

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Overwatch 2 goes full Fortnite by revealing its mysterious ARG character is actually John Cena

Enigma is here, and his name is John Cena

Radio France Internationale

Pope urges young Catholics to ‘make a mess’ at World Youth Day

In Portugal for World Youth Day, one of Catholicism's largest gatherings, Pope Francis has said he'll continue urging young people to “make a mess” – a reference to the exhortation made during his first youth day event in Rio in 2013, when the Pontiff called on young people to shake…

France 24

Brazil: at least 44 killed in a week of deadly police operations in three states

Nine people were killed Wednesday in a police operation targeting criminal gangs in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said, the latest in a week of security force raids that have left at least 44 dead across Brazil.

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - US

Marielle Franco: new suspect arrested over killing of Rio city councillor

Brazil federal police say Maxwell Simões Corrêa helped plan 2018 assassination; two former police officers are already awaiting trial

WEKU

Prolific Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato dies at 88

He helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but defied confinement to any single genre.

The Independent UK

Prolific Brazilian pianist João Donato, famed for bossa nova and beyond, dies at 88

Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but defied confinement to any single genre, has died at the age of 88

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