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As you descend from 35,000 feet and look out the window a magical feeling comes over you. Suddenly you see the open arms of Christ the Redeemer sitting on a mountain top overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro and you heart starts to raceContributor: Mitchell HendersonPublished: Dec 26, 2009  
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Dec. 24: Sean Goldman 9 arrives at the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hugging his Brazilian stepfather, Joao Paulo Lins e Silva. Dec. 24: Sean Goldman 9 arrives at the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hugging his Brazilian ...  
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 24, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said U.S. resident David Goldman was reunited with his son, Sean, Thursday after a five-year custody battle. The U.S. consulate said in a statement Goldman ...  
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Sean Goldman, the 9-year-old at the center of an international abduction and custody dispute, boarded a chartered plane in Rio de Janeiro with his American father on Thursday morning and was en route to the United States, ending a ...  
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SAO PAULO, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Limited ("Comba" or the "Group", Hong Kong Stock code: 2342), a leading wireless solutions provider, announced it has been selected to supply a comprehensive wireless solution to enable ubiquitous mobile communications for Brazil's Rio de Janeiro Metro ("Metro Rio") mass-transit railway network.  
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Few of the officers have been charged in the extrajudicial killings, which are often labeled in police reports as the deaths of suspects who resisted arrest, the report said. The 122-page declaration echoes a 2008 United Nations' finding...  
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starting today, US Airways (NYSE:LCC) will begin connecting customers from more than 80 cities in the United States with South America as it launches daily, nonstop service from its hub at Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The year-round service, which originates at the airline’s Philadelphia hub, will be operated on Boeing 767 aircraft with seating for 18 in Envoy, US Airways...  
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The construction of a major highway around the city of Rio de Janeiro has been partly stopped due to the discovery of a small frog under threat of extinction. The planned superhighway goes straight through a forest that is home to 30 species of amphibians and numerous other animals. This is the only place on earth that the tiny, rare frog can be found. Conservationists are concerned that if this part of the forest is paved over the frog and...  
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil will spend $280 million to renovate Maracana Stadium, closing the historic venue next year to spruce up the centerpiece of the 2014 World Cup.  
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16th Latin Oil Week 2010 22nd -24th March 2010 Rio de Janeiro http://www.petro21.com/events/index.cfm?id=477 Contact: babette@glopac.com This 16th Annual Latin Upstream is a key event for the Latin American Continent, focused on the exploration industry, gas-LNG and GTL - with Speakers from Latin America and worldwide on competition, National Oil Companies, strategy and portfolio, new ventures, new hydrocarbon potential, regional risks and...  
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Rio de Janeiro, Dec 8 (EFE) The Brazilian government will soon open the bidding process to build a high-speed train line that will link Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, authorities said. A meeting was held Monday between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the ministers to be involved in the project, which will require [...]  
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(Rio de Janeiro) - Police officers in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo routinely resort to lethal force, often committing extrajudicial executions and exacerbating violence in both states, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. read more  
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RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium, which is due to stage the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics as well as the 2014 World Cup final, is to get a 300 million US dollars face-lift, announced the city’s Secretary of ...  
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil–Police in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, a Human Rights Watch report says ... to violent crime," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at ...  
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The Federal Regional Tribunal In Rio de Janeiro, upholding a lower-court decision, ruled 3-0 that Sean is to be returned to live with his father. In 2004, Goldman's then-wife, Bruna Bianchi, took Sean from New Jersey to Rio de Janeiro for what she ...  
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