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Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - After two long years without its frenetic festival of sparkling sequins, sultry samba and towering floats, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival parades Friday night for the first time since Covid-19 hit Brazil.

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'Long live the samba!': Brazil holds first carnival since Covid

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‘No greater triumph’: excitement builds in Rio for carnival’s return

After the pain of Covid and its cancellations, a Brazilian samba school gears up

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Rio mayor hands key to city to carnival king

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - After two years of Covid-19 cancellations, Rio de Janeiro's mayor officially opened the world's most famous carnival celebration Wednesday, handing the key to the city to "King Momo," the symbolic ruler of the festivities.

AFP

Rio's Carnival parade is back, as street bands ache to party

Starting Wednesday night, Rio de Janeiro samba schools’ elaborate floats and feather-festooned dancers will parade between packed bleachers

The Independent UK

Brazil readies first carnival since Covid

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - After two bleak years of lock-downs and loss, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival this weekend for the first time since Covid-19 hit Brazil, promising a giant, glittering spectacle of pandemic catharsis.

AFP

Rio carnival groups fight for right to party ahead of official celebrations

Samba schools will return to action but ‘blocos’ – street groups – are furious they have not yet received authorization to gather

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Brazil youth voter drive battles apathy - and could help Lula

In the patio of an evangelical youth group in the rough suburbs of Rio de Janeiro one recent weekday afternoon, 18-year-old Vitoria Rodrigues opened up her laptop and began to register young voters for Brazil's upcoming elections.

Reuters

Torrential Rains Kill 14 in Brazil

Torrential downpours triggered flash floods and landslides across Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, killing at least 14 people including eight children, and leaving five missing, authorities said Saturday. Two days of heavy rain have battered a broad swathe of the southeastern state's Atlantic coast, the latest in a series of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kate Ferdinand says she 'finds herself wishing husband Rio's late wife Rebecca back'

Kate Ferdinand says she finds herself at times "wishing Rebecca was back here" as she details how she struggles watching her family grieve

Daily Mirror

Rio launches clean-up of gorgeous, filthy bay -- again

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Cold beer in hand, the sun shining, Edson Rocha seems to have everything for a beautiful day at the beach.

AFP

In Brazil, your internet provider may be a mobster, cops say

As Rio de Janeiro residents sheltered at home last year during the deadliest phase of Brazil's COVID-19 outbreak, police detective Gabriel Ferrando said he got a tip that something suspicious was upending local internet service.

Reuters

Rio relaxes the use of masks as pandemic wanes in Brazil

Rio de Janeiro is relaxing the use of masks as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes in Brazil

The Independent UK

Scottish football's most notorious divers as Lewis Ferguson is blasted by Robbie Neilson

The Aberdeen star was slammed for conning the referee to win a penalty at Tynecastle and here we look at others in our game with a reputation for diving.

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World needs climate accountability

It has been 30 years since world leaders gathered in Rio de Janeiro and agreed on a set of measures to start the global mobilisation against human-caused climate change and to meet the imperative of a more sustainable development model. Their Rio Declaration affirmed that "human beings are at the…

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Brazil tourism sector tries to rise from pandemic ashes

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - With the glittering parades, towering floats and sultry samba postponed by the omicron variant, Brazil will have a carnival week without much carnival this year -- bad news for a tourism industry already battered by the pandemic.

The Independent UK

In Rio, even a ban can't keep revelers from Carnival streets

The pandemic has disrupted Carnival in Rio de Janeiro for a second straight year

Reuters

Rio de Janeiro is ready to party, with or without carnival

As Rio de Janeiro's world-famous carnival holiday rolls around this year without official events due to Brazil's ongoing Omicron coronavirus wave, a slew of private parties are ensuring glitter-dusted revelers will have plenty of ways to celebrate.

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Death toll in Brazil's Petropolis mudslides, floods hits 176; more than 110 missing

The death toll from last week's mudslides and floods in the Brazilian city of Petropolis reached 176 as of Monday, Rio de Janeiro's state civil defense said, with more than 110 people still missing.

The Independent UK

Brazil’s deadly mudslides reflect neglect, climate change

This week’s landslides in the Brazilian city of Petropolis tore down houses and ripped families apart

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rescuers Scour for Survivors after Brazil Floods, Landslides Kill 94

Rescue workers raced against the clock Wednesday searching for any remaining survivors among mud and wreckage after devastating flash floods and landslides hit the picturesque Brazilian city of Petropolis, killing at least 94 people. Streets were turned into torrential rivers and houses swept away Tuesday when heavy storms dumped a…

The Independent UK

Brazil mudslides kill at least 94, with dozens still missing

Rio de Janeiro state’s government has confirmed that at least 94 people died in landslides that ravaged the city of Petropolis, but it is still unclear how many bodies remain trapped in the mud

AFP

At least 38 dead in floods near Rio de Janeiro: officials

Petrópolis (Brazil) (AFP) - At least 38 people were killed in devastating flash floods that swept through the picturesque Brazilian city of Petropolis, turning streets into torrential rivers, officials said Wednesday.

Wales Online

Brazil mudslides and floods kill at least 18 outside Rio

There was widespread concern that the death toll could surge as teams searched damaged areas in the Petropolis region

Reuters

At least eight people killed in Rio de Janeiro police raid

At least eight people were killed on Friday during a dawn police raid in Rio de Janeiro's Vila Cruzeiro favela, local police said, adding the operation targeted a major drug dealer.

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