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The players of the newly formed Trabzon VP team pose for photographers in the neighborhood of Vila da Penha in Rio De Janeiro. A group of young people from the neighborhood of Vila da Penha in Rio De Janeiro have formed a soccer team named Trabzon VP ...
- How the Repression in the Favelas Goes Beyond Simple Police Violence (alterdestiny.blogspot.com)
- Guess Who: On A Balcony In Rio De Janeiro (feedburner.com)
At a first glance, God appears to be everywhere. He is in the tiny churches where both the innocent and the sinful alike go and pray. He is hanging from the gold crosses that dangle from the necks of gangsters, drug dealers and the dead bodies they pull from the trunks of their cars.
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Going to Rio for Carnival in 2009? If you are visiting the 'Greatest Show on Earth' you'll probably want to buy expensive tickets for the fabulous parades of the Grupo Especial Schools. But there are many other smaller and less well resourced samba schools parading over carnival weekend, and some of the parades do not charge entrance fees. Here is a full list of all of the samba schools and their parades, including all of the free ones. The...
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- Finding Apartments Rio de Janeiro: Avoid the Rush, Book Early (pr-inside.com)
- Memorial for 228 victims of Air France crash dedicated in Brazil (search.msn.com)
- Madonna to help Rio slums (search.msn.com)
RIO DE JANEIRO — A massive power failure blacked out Brazil's two largest cities and other parts of Latin America's biggest nation for more than two hours late Tuesday, leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge hydroelectric dam suddenly went offline.
Paraguay was also affected when the Itaipu dam straddling the two nations' border stopped producing 17,000 megawatts of power, resulting in outages in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and at...
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- Brazil's 2 largest cities hit by blackouts (freerepublic.com)
- Massive Blackout Hits Brazil's 2 Largest Cities (freerepublic.com)
- Blackouts darken Brazils 2 largest cities... (freerepublic.com)
A blackout spreading across nine states of southern and central Brazil was caused by a failure at a hydroelectric dam, the country's energy minister said. The power outage Tuesday night affected 40 million people and left about 800 cities - including Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia - in the dark.
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- Massive blackout hits Brazil cities: witnesses (france24.com)
2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro: Will the City Be Safe? (TIME): "Just two weeks ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said between delirious sobs in Copenhagen that the International Olympic Committee's decision to award the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro was a vindication of Brazil's social and economic advances."
Last Saturday, "at least 14 people were killed and eight more were injured after violent shootouts between...
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- Lula biopic to debut at Brasilia film festival (thaindian.com)
- Silva assures Rio is capable of hosting Olympics (search.msn.com)
- Prez: Brazil capable of hosting Olympics (search.msn.com)
Madonna arrived in Brazil today with her BFF steven Klein [below left] where she is about to meet her in-laws. She is going to meet Cristane Regina da Silva, Jesus mom, who is only 36 year old, Christina was only 13 when she had Jesus [source] While in Rio De Janeiro Madonna will also meet with one of the country's richest businessmen to discuss setting up social projects in some of Rio's favelas. She will be staying at the beautiful Fasano...
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- An Englishman in trouble (topix.net)
- Cape Breton Island clipper finishes Race 2 in fourth place: Light winds prove... (capebretonpost.com)
Rio de Janeiro, Nov 13 (DPA) Brazil’s federal police arrested here an Englishman who intended to leave the country with 1,000 live spiders packed in two suitcases, the authorities said Thursday.
Police said the arrest took place Wednesday at Rio de Janeiro’s international airport, with the help of agents for the Brazilian Institute for the Environment [...]
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From thaindian.com
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Madonna landed in Rio de Janeiro yesterday for a week long trip that may include meeting her boyfriend's mother and speaking with government officials about poverty. Several reports are saying that the superstar is nervous about meeting Jesus Luz' family for the first time and that it may be a sign things are heating up between them. But Madge told Page Six the rumors aren't true and she is "there strictly for fundraising and humanitarian...
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From jaunted.com
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If it's good enough for Madonna and Jesus, then it's good enough for you. As we reported today, the transformative Queen of Pop recently landed in Rio de Janiero for "humanitarian" work and quite possibly to meet her boyfriend's parents. We're not sure if this contributes to Rio's international appeal or detracts from it, but we did happen to stumble across a four-night travel package, airfare included, for Thanksgiving travel to the...
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- Brazil Student Expelled for Mini-Dress (search.msn.com)
