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9-cent hike leads to clashes in Brazil
Brazilians took to the streets across the country to protest a 9 cent rise in bus fares. Brazil is building massive stadiums and revamping infrastructure ahead of the soccer World Cup, which it hosts next year. Students took to streets on June 18, 2013 in ...
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Mass protests continue in Brazil
Brazilian nationals rally in Mexico City. Protests have spread across Brazil and abroad against the country's heavy tax burden, corruption and woeful public services. The sign at centre translates: "We are fighting for quality in education, heath and transport." (Ivan Pierre Aguirre/Associated ...
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Brazil Protests 50000 Take To The Streets
Tens of thousands of Brazilians have once again taken to the streets in Sao Paolo, protesting at the high cost of staging the World Cup next year. The protests followed Monday night's demonstrations in the country's biggest city as residents vent their anger about the high cost of public transport - and its inefficiency - and a government that they see is riddled with corruption. ...
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Brazil sends top cops against Tropical Spring demos
The Tigers must take on Chelsea and Manchester City in two of their first three games back in English football's top flight, before hosting fellow promoted side Cardiff City ...
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Brazilian protestors hack FIFA website replace it with an embedded YouTube video
Protestors have reportedly hacked the official website for the Brazil Football World Cup 2014 and replaced the site with a video of a violent police response to a peaceful protest. According to News.com.au, the FIFA website was replaced with an embedded YouTube video, showing protesters marching, before riot police release tear gas and fire on the protesters with rubber bullets. The report ...
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Brazil to deploy special police for soccer
Brazil will deploy a special police force to help provide security for the Confederations Cup tournament following mass protests against government spending, the state news agency says.Officers belonging to the National Force, a branch of the federal police deployed in cases of social unrest, will be sent to five of the six cities where the tournament is being played, Agencia Brasil reported on ...
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Brazils perfect 10 surf pioneer
>CNN's Human to Hero series celebrates inspiration and achievement in sport. Click here for show times, videos and features.(CNN) -- She's a perfect 10; the surfer that other professionals will drag themselves out of the water to watch. But it is the satisfaction of being able to help her family that ranks as Silvana Lima's proudest achievement. The diminutive Brazilian, twice a runner-up on ...
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Driver charged in death of soccer fan dribbling to Brazil
By Lauren Gambino, Associated Press The driver Oregon police say fatally struck a man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles from Seattle to Brazil for the World Cup has been arrested. Scott Van Hiatt, of Neskowin, Ore., was arrested Monday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide, said Lincoln City Police Chief Keith Kilian. Richard Swanson, of Seattle, planned to dribble the ball for ...
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Brazil protests grow amid fury over bus fares graft
By Bradley Brooks, The Associated Press SAO PAULO, Brazil - Tens of thousands of Brazilians flooded the streets of the country's biggest city Tuesday in a widening protest against a slew of problems from bus fares to government corruption.More than 50,000 people massed in front of the city's main cathedral. While mostly peaceful, the demonstration followed the rhythm of protests that ...
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Brazil protesters flood Sao Paulo streets for 2nd night
SAO PAULO Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament -; people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with corruption. That was the repeated message Tuesday night in Sao Paulo, where upward of 50,000 people ...
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AIRSHOW-HGI orders ATR 72-600s for Brazils Passaredo
PARIS, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:17am EDT PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - HGI Capital Group said it ordered 10 ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft for Passaredo Linhas Aereas to help the Brazilian carrier expand its regional fleet. HGI added that it was also taking 10 options on the planes, giving a total value for the deal of $482 million. ATR is a joint venture of EADS and Finmeccanica ...
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SAO PAULO Brazil - Tens of thousands of Brazilians flooded the streets of the countrys biggest city Tuesday in a widening protest against a slew of problems from bus fares to government corruption. More than 50000 people massed in front of the cit
By Bradley Brooks, The Associated Press SAO PAULO, Brazil - Tens of thousands of Brazilians flooded the streets of the country's biggest city Tuesday in a widening protest against a slew of problems from bus fares to government corruption.More than 50,000 people massed in front of the city's main cathedral. While mostly peaceful, the demonstration followed the rhythm of protests that ...
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Thousands of Brazilians take to streets protesting against high taxes
Tens of thousands of Brazilians protest in Sao Paolo. Mass protests have been mushrooming across Brazil since demonstrations called last week by a group angry over the high cost of a woeful public transport system. Sebastiao Moreira / ...
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Brazil sends force to quell protest
Brazil's government says it will deploy a national security force to five major cities after a wave of protests which has seen almost 250,000 people demand better public ...
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Brazil trade looks to score from the World Cup
Brazil is using football, one of its greatest passions to boost trade between the South American nation and Europe. The 2014 World Cup takes place in Brazil next June and July, a few weeks after the European elections and the nation is looking to use the sport to increase trade and investment. As Latin America's top economy, Brazil is also the worlds sixth largest and the fifth largest ...
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Brazil UnrestThe Brazilian government has deployed more national security force Latin America News
The Brazilian government will deploy National Public Security Force in five cities hosting the FIFA football tournament in an effort to contain the ongoing protests across the country. The announcement by the Brazilian Justice Ministry comes after a day of violent clashes between protesters and riot police. The ministry decided to deploy the joint federal police force on Wednesday in response ...
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Brazil - Investigation needed into use of violence against protesters in Brazil
The So Paulo state government should honor pledges to thoroughly and impartially investigate the legality of force used by security forces during recent crowd-control operations in So Paulo, Human Rights Watch said today.On June 13, 2013, scores of people were injured when police officers used teargas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators protesting an increase in bus and subway fares in ...
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In pictures Brazil protests continue for another night
Cities across Brazil were rocked by another day of protests against public services, police violence and government corruption. There were clashes between police and ...
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Brazil beefs up policing for Confederations Cup
Riot polce take positions during a protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 18, 2013. Brazil will deploy a special police force to help provide security for the Confederations Cup tournament following mass protests against government ...
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Protests continue to rock Brazil
14/06/2013 11:16 CET Around 50,000 flooded the streets of Sao Paulo for another night of protests in Brazil. Demonstrators took to the streets in some of the largest protests in 20 years over poor public services and the escalating cost of hosting international sporting competitions like the World Cup 2014. President Dilma Rousseff said she was open to social change, but her words may be ...
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Protesters out again in Brazil
Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to protest over high taxes, high prices, poor public services and corrupt ...
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Brazil boosts security for Confed Cup
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil will deploy a special police force to help provide security for the Confederations Cup tournament following mass protests against government spending, the state news agency said on ...
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Special cops ready for Confederations Cup in Brazil
(31 mins ago) Brazil will deploy a special police force to help provide security for the Confederations Cup tournament following mass protests against government spending, the state news agency said Wednesday. Officers belonging to the National Force, a branch of the federal police deployed in cases of social unrest, will be sent to five of the six cities where the tournament will be played, ...
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Ongoing protests in Brazil and Royal Ascot the best news photographs of the day
Firefighters work to put out a burning vehicle set on fire by protestors in Sao Paulo, Brazil as protests continued overnight. Photograph: Nelson ...
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Brazilians hold another big protest to lament high cost of living lack of good public services
Protestors destroy ATM machines at a local a bank in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Thousands of demonstrators flooded into a square in Brazil’s economic hub, Sao Paulo, on Tuesday. Sparked earlier this month by a 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares and organized via social media, the nationwide protests are giving voice to growing discontent over the gap between ...
Rio de Janeiro Digest
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Rio's uphill battle to host the Games
Rio de Janeiro has many aspects, it is the party capital of Brazil, the internationally recognized face of the country, the most visited city in Brazil, the crime capital of South America, a city with some of the highest drug use statistics and, more recently, the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Winning that particular war has not been easy.
Rio de Janeiro, this bustling city of 6 million people (14 million if one includes the greater metro area) is the second largest city in Brazil and is famous for its statue Christ the Redeemer, which sits atop Corcovado Mountain and has looked down upon the city for almost 100 years. It is also famous for the internationally known Carnivale, the city’s samba schools, the fabulous beaches that grace our shoreline and Sugarloaf Mountain with its ancient cable car. Read more
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