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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

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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

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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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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."

Bangkok Post

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.

The Independent UK

'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.

Bangkok Post

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

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

UK director, Indigenous group ambushed in Brazil: activists

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - A British director, two noted Brazilian Indigenous activists, and 13 others were ambushed by dozens of armed men accused of illegally occupying territory in an Indigenous reservation in the Brazilian Amazon, people involved said Wednesday.

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Brazil's Petrobras scraps international price peg

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras said Tuesday it has ended its policy of pegging fuel prices to the international market, an overhaul promised by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that had initially caused investor jitters.

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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.

Reuters

US lawmaker Santos agrees to plea deal in Brazil fraud case

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Scandal-plagued US congressman George Santos, indicted this week on 13 charges, has agreed to a plea deal to settle a separate case over using a stolen checkbook in Brazil in 2008, officials said Friday.

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Brazil's internet bill row, explained

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Messaging app Telegram calls it an "attack on democracy," Google says it "seriously threatens free speech" -- but what exactly is in Brazil's controversial measure to regulate disinformation online?

AFP

US lawmaker Santos faces court hearing in Brazil

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - A day after being arrested on 13 charges in the United States, Congressman George Santos faced more legal headaches in Brazil, where a court hearing was scheduled for Thursday in a fraud case against him.

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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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AI could replace 80% of jobs 'in next few years': expert

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years -- but that's a good thing, says US-Brazilian researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru.

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KondZilla, the entrepreneur of Brazilian favela funk

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - They say everything he touches turns to gold: KondZilla, the man behind the most popular YouTube channel in Latin America, has revolutionized Brazilian funk music, taking favela beats to a massive online audience.

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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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.

AFP

Brazil court suspends Telegram app in neo-Nazi probe

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered the countrywide suspension of messaging app Telegram after its parent company failed to provide data sought by authorities on neo-Nazis operating on the network, officials said.

AFP

Brazil may surpass US as world's No. 1 corn exporter

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - On his farm in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil's grain basket, Ilson Jose Redivo finished planting his corn crop a few weeks ago, acting quickly once he'd harvested the soybeans that he'd grown on the same fields.

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