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'Everyone Jumping, Everyone Happy': Rio Celebrates Carnival

Glittering with sequins and sweat, thousands of performers shimmying to sultry samba beats danced their way down an avenue in Rio de Janeiro Sunday as the Brazilian beach city's famed carnival parades got under way.

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‘Enough of being bossed around by men’: Brazil’s first all-women samba school dances to its own beat

The sexism, stereotypes and sniggering don’t deter the members of TPM as they prepare to compete in Rio’s carnival

The Guardian - UK

Crack Addicts Dance In Side Show To Carnival In Brazil

Emaciated Brazilian crack addicts danced to samba music in a rundown part of Sao Paulo as a very different kind of Carnival parade filled the street.

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Carnival begins in New Orleans with Phunny Phorty Phellows, king cakes, Joan of Arc parade

The countdown to Mardi Gras has begun in New Orleans

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7 of the best destinations for a Brazil holiday

South America’s largest country has enough colourful cities, historic landmarks and areas of natural beauty to rival entire continents

The Independent UK

Queer life in Africa is also full of joy – remembering the carnival in Mozambique

In late colonial Mozambique, in the city of Lourenço Marques (today’s Maputo), a carnival festival was held almost every year. From the 1950s to the 1970s, the event was more than just a street parade. It also became a space of queer expression and joy.

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Met Police criticised after stop and search more than doubled at Notting Hill Carnival

Green Party politician Caroline Russell has accused the Met of using stop and search 'to intimidate festival-goers' in some cases

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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is getting a free two-part update that lets you visit the Carnival—to rip and tear into heretics, of course

Send in the clowns.

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More arrests at Euro final at Wembley than Notting Hill Carnival, says Sadiq Khan

London mayor defends Notting Hill Carnival and says it is as safe as Glastonbury or Reading festival

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Meeting on future of Notting Hill Carnival descends into chaos as angry residents criticise ‘tick box exercise’

Attendees shouted down suggestion carnival should be moved to a different location

The Independent UK

Most people had a fantastic time at Notting Hill carnival, says Met police chief

Sir Mark Rowley condemns ‘small number of very dangerous people’ as two men remain in hospital after stabbings

The Guardian - UK

Notting Hill Carnival violence ‘unacceptable’, say police, as youths brandish machetes

The Metropolitan Police Federation says violence at the event is ‘absolutely disgusting’

Evening Standard

Notting Hill Carnival organisers ‘deplore all acts of violence’

Two men are in hospital, one in a critical condition, after attacks at the festival, held in the streets of west London on Sunday and Monday.

The Independent UK

Notting Hill Carnival: 300 tonnes of rubbish and skip full of gas cannisters cleaned up

Kensington & Chelsea council said its army of cleaners and 30 refuse trucks worked through the night

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Police officer sexually assaulted at Notting Hill Carnival

Notting Hill Carnival officer among 75 who were assaulted over two day festival

Evening Standard

Notting Hill Carnival 2023 — ‘its spirit can never be diluted’

An estimated two million people took to West London for two days of dancing, jerk chicken, and thumping sound systems. Maddy Mussen reports

The Independent UK

Two men in hospital after spate of stabbings on last day of Notting Hill Carnival

Police say six other men sustained non-life-threatening injuries in separate stabbing incidents

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Two men in hospital after spate of stabbings at Notting Hill Carnival

Police said six other men, aged 18, 19, 20, 25, 28 and 40, sustained non-life threatening injuries in separate stabbing incidents.

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Notting Hill Carnival sees ‘no major incidents’ on Children’s Day but 85 arrests - police

The number of arrests is ‘broadly consistent’ to police expectations with two million expected to attend over the weeekend

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Notting Hill Carnival kicks off in style as partygoers flock to west London

Revellers take to streets in droves to celebrate the first day of carnival

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Notting Hill Carnival 2023 latest LIVE: Sun is shining for second and final day of celebrations

This year’s Notting Hill Carnival also marks 75 years since the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush

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The Notting Hill Carnival is ‘bigger and better than ever’, says Mayor of London

Sadiq Khan said in a statement that the Notting Hill Carnival is ‘part of the very fabric of our city’.

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 Guardian - UK

Notting Hill carnival bands line up tributes for Windrush anniversary

Carnival boss ready for celebratory event expected to draw 2m people over bank holiday weekend

Evening Standard

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