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Sagar Dangi places sixth in air pistol in Rio World Cup

Sagar Dangi (581) placed 6th in men's air pistol at the World Cup in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. India's 16-member team included former world No.1 Saurabh Chaudhary (572) who placed 30th. Elavenil Valarivan and Sandeep Singh (629.1) were 4th in mixed air rifle. Federico Maldini (237.8, 580) won gold.

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.

Al Jazeera

Renault Teases New Kardian SUV For International Markets, Debuts October 25

It will break cover in Rio de Janeiro and go on sale first in Latin America.

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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 Independent UK

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.

France 24

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 Independent UK

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

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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

The Independent UK

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

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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Bangkok Post

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."

The Independent UK

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.

Bangkok Post

'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.

Reuters

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.

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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

Daily Mirror

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

ABC News

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.

Reuters

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.

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.

Daily Mirror

Passengers' shock as plane’s engine bursts into flames on runway moments before take off

Passengers were shocked when their flight from Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Porto Alegre was cancelled when its engine burst into flames on the runway

France 24

Brazil's fake news law: Big Tech bites back in bitter internet regulation fight

Brazil's landmark fake news law hit a hurdle this week when a vote in parliament was postponed. If it's eventually passed, online life will change for more than 160 million Brazilians who use social media, and potentially for internet users around the world. But Big Tech is putting up a…

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