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'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.

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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.

Reuters

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Daily Mirror

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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UFC veteran Felipe Colares, 29, dies after being struck by bus in Brazil

UFC veteran Felipe Colares was returning home from training when he was struck by a bus and died Monday in Rio de Janeiro.

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Prosecutor to appeal acquittal of Airbus, Air France in Rio-Paris crash case

A French public prosecutor is appealing a court decision that had cleared European planemaker Airbus and Air France of responsibility in France’s worst aviation disaster, the crash of a plane headed from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in June 2009 that killed all 228 people on board.

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Air France and Airbus cleared of involuntary manslaughter over 2009 crash

Paris court clears aviation giants over disaster that killed 228 people flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris

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Chilling last words of pilot before Air France plane crashed into Atlantic killing 228

Five British nationals and three Irish doctors were among the 228 passengers killed after the doomed Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean

Daily Mirror

Councillor tied up ex-husband and doused him in acid before he escaped and told police

A Rio de Janeiro court sentenced Veronica Costa to 10 years and eight months, stipulating that her sentence must be served in a prison

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Boy, 11, filmed riding horse to school after his bike had flat tyre

Pedro de Lima, 11, was filmed by a driver as he rode to his school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a horse after his bike got a flat tyre - and his mother had no idea

The Independent UK

United Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Houston

A United Airlines flight bound from Houston to Rio De Janeiro returned to Bush Intercontinental Airport for an emergency landing shortly after takeoff

The Independent UK

Brazil has a new biggest favela, and not in Rio de Janeiro

For the first time since poverty, lack of opportunity and economic inequality caused favelas to mushroom across many of the nation’s cities, Brazil’s biggest favela isn’t in Rio de Janeiro

The Independent UK

Residents protest zipline on Rio’s iconic Sugarloaf Mountain

Some 200 protesters have gathered beneath Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Sugarloaf Mountain to protest the ongoing construction of ziplines aimed at boosting tourism, alleging it will cause unacceptable impacts

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At least 13 dead in latest clash with police outside Rio de Janeiro

At least 13 people were killed in clashes with police just outside Brazil's seaside city of Rio de Janeiro after a raid to arrest a gang leader, police said on Thursday, marking another bloody episode in the sprawling metro area.

France 24

Pollution in Brazil's Guanabara Bay spoils postcard image of Rio

Located beside the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara Bay is home to rich biodiversity and represents the livelihood of thousands of fishermen. But over the past few decades, its beauty has been tarnished by daily dumping of sewage, as well as chemical and plastic waste. According to a…

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The globe-trotting Cruise 2024 shows: what to expect

Everything you need to know about the upcoming Cruise 2024 shows, which see fashion brands jetting around the world, from Seoul to Los Angeles

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Five years after Rio councilwoman slain, questions and hope

Supporters gathered Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro to mark five years since the assassination of Black, bisexual councilwoman Marielle Franco amid hope that investigations into her death will accelerate under Brazil’s new leftist president

The Independent UK

Iranian warships in Rio de Janeiro stirring concern abroad

The arrival this week to Rio de Janeiro of two Iranian warships that Brazil’s government authorized to dock has prompted rebukes both from Israel and the U.S. On Thursday, one of the two ships was spotted off shore Rio’s world-famous south zone of beaches, while the other was docked downtown

Reuters

Brazil allows two Iranian warships to dock in Rio despite US pressure

Two Iranian warships docked in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government granted permission despite pressure from the United States to bar them.

Bangkok Post

Rio holds first all-out carnival since Covid

RIO DE JANEIRO - With a swirl of glitter, sequins and samba, Rio de Janeiro will kick off its famed carnival parades Sunday, the climax of the festival's first full-on edition since Covid-19 and Brazil's bitterly divisive elections.

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