JANUARY 25: Mother Mylene Helena Ferreira hugs her son David Henrique Ferreira, 5 months, who has microcephaly, on January 25, 2016 in Recife, Brazil. RECIFE, BRAZIL – JANUARY 25: Mother Mylene Helena Ferreira hugs her son David Henrique Ferreira, 5 months, who has microcephaly, on January 25, 2016 in Recife, Brazil.
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Ap Photos: On Women’s Day, many rally, skip work, wear red
People walk during a protest marking the International Women’s Day, in central Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Organized by NGOs and women’s organizations, the march began amidst extensive security precautions.
Ap Photos: On Women’s Day, many rally, skip work, wear red
People walk during a protest marking the International Women’s Day, in central Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Organized by NGOs and women’s organizations, the march began amidst extensive security precautions.
Female Artists in Rio Promote Women’s Rights Via Painting
Before leaving her home each day to teach art to children, Mariluce Maria de Souza must factor in extra time to account for the shootings and other eruptions of violence that occur daily in Alemao, Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of slums, or favelas. The 35-year-old mother sometimes has to cancel a session teaching painting to children because the journey to class is just too dangerous.
Thai boy with cancerous growth on head WON’T have surgery
Boy, 2, WON’T have surgery to remove huge cancerous tumour because his parents hope alternative medicine will offer a cure instead The 23-month-old was reportedly diagnosed with the disease nine months ago following a biopsy at Srinakarin Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. Khondej has since undergone a series of chemotherapy treatments and now surgeons want to operate to remove part of his brain, cheekbone and jaw.
SES and SPI/FILMBOX Sign Capacity Deal to Distribute HD Channels in Latin America
SES S.A. , the world-leading satellite operator, announced today that it has signed a multi-year capacity agreement with Group , a global media company that operates more than 30 TV channels, to support the company’s expansion in Latin America and distribute its HD channels in the region. SPI will extend its reach in Latin America thanks to the C-band capacity of NSS-806, which covers the entire region in one single beam and is capable of reaching about 90% of all pay TV subscribers in South America.
HEALTH: Why this Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn…
The three functional skin banks in Brazil can meet only 1 percent of the national demand, said Dr. Edmar Maciel, a plastic surgeon and burn specialist leading the clinical trials with tilapia skin. “It’s a burn cream because there’s silver in it, so it prevents the burns from being infected,” said Dr. Jeanne Lee, interim burn director at the the regional burn center at the University of California at San Diego.
HEALTH: Why this Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn…
The three functional skin banks in Brazil can meet only 1 percent of the national demand, said Dr. Edmar Maciel, a plastic surgeon and burn specialist leading the clinical trials with tilapia skin. “It’s a burn cream because there’s silver in it, so it prevents the burns from being infected,” said Dr. Jeanne Lee, interim burn director at the the regional burn center at the University of California at San Diego.
The Rio Carnival Masterpiece Heist
In 2006, thieves took advantage of the bustle of the Rio Carnival, stealing five major works of art from a museum and ending up on the FBI’s Top Ten Art Crimes list. As anyone who has ever watched a good art heist flick knows, the key is in the planning.
AP Explains: Who competes and how Carnival parades judged
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Brazil’s sexy Carnival puts Pentecostal mayor in tight spot
While campaigning last year to become Rio de Janeiro’s mayor, Marcelo Crivella, a retired Pentecostal bishop, insisted his faith would not get in the way of governing the nation’s most famous city. The former gospel singer and missionary, a high-profile member of one of Brazil’s most powerful evangelical churches, captured 59 percent of the vote and took office Jan. 1. But less than two months into his four-year term, Crivella’s promises are about to be tested by Carnival, Rio’s annual weeklong party often marked by heavy drinking and drug use, wild sex and round-the-clock dancing.
TripAdvisor names 2017’s best beaches in the world
‘Do not breathe under the water’? ‘Falling can be deadly’? You don’t say! The world’s most entirely pointless signs revealed You can marry a dog in India and identify as a dragon in Russia: Revealing the most baffling laws in the world Tourist in Thailand faces up to a year in prison for ‘feeding BREADCRUMBS to fish in a forbidden part of the sea’ A secret floor, a chauffeur-driven Tesla and exclusive ocean views: The $2,100-a-night hotel-within-a hotel where the one per cent hide out in Florida Forget Bond Street: Why a trip to Bicester Village will satisfy all designer label junkies A 15,000sq-foot spa, a cigar room and an in-house cinema: The Austrian ski-in-ski-out five-star hotel that will appease even the most reluctant snow bunny ‘They’re just bags of intestines – full of faeces’: Explorer Ed Stafford reveals that eating TADPOLES was a new low as he tackled the Patagonia wilds … (more)
Even at anything-goes Carnival, these lyrics raise eyebrows
In this Feb. 19, 2017 photo, a couple dances during the “If you don’t give me….then you lend me” Carnival street party on Ipanema beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The typical view of Carnival in Brazil is anything goes, with no headdress too big, no outfit too small, no song too ribald, but this year some organizers of the world’s best known party are drawing the line at lyrics that are sexist, homophobic or racist.
Cemig CFO Castellari leaves for Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala, says source: Reuters
Paulo Castellari, who was named chief financial officer of Brazilian power utility Cia EnergA tica de Minas Gerais SA only two months ago, is joining Mubadala Development Co PJSC , a source told Reuters on Tuesday. Castellari formalized his departure from Cemig on Monday after receiving an offer to join the Abu Dhabi investment fund, the source, who has direct knowledge of the matter, said.
Rio Carnival revelers hunt for bargains amid economic crisis
” Instead of costly and elaborate costumes with glittering sequins, expect more cheap getups featuring fake mustaches, hats and tiaras at this year’s Carnival. Revelers are bargain-hunting ahead of Rio de Janeiro’s world famous party, which is about to kick off amid a prolonged economic crisis that is hurting pocketbooks and the myriad businesses that depend on the bash for a large part of their annual incomes.
YDreams Global Creates an Innovative Interactive Experience for Rio de Janeiro’s Energy Museum
News: YDreams Global Interactive Technologies Inc. / Key word :Miscellaneous14.02.2017 / 09:01The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this British Columbia– – YDreamsGlobal Interactive Technologies Inc. , wishes to announce that it has createdinnovative interactive features for the Light Museum in Rio de Janeiro . The Museum is sponsored by Light – one of the main electricitydistribution companies responsible for supplying power to over 10 millionconsumers in the city.
Military police back on duty for second day in Brazil
More than 1,000 military police returned to patrols in Espirito Santo on Sunday as the southeastern Brazilian state inched toward normalcy after a protest left a security vacuum that fueled a crime wave. Schools in the state are scheduled to reopen Monday and public transport will resume a full schedule, the president’s office said on Twitter.
Hundreds of police back on duty in paralyzed Brazil state
A police officer walks next to uniforms painted with red ink to symbolize blood, during a protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Feb 10, 2017. Relatives of Military Police members are demanding better salaries and labor conditions and they block the exits not allowing the officers to go work.
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Relatives of Military Police members are demanding better salaries and labor… . Uniforms painted with red ink to symbolize blood, are set on the ground by relatives of military police members during a protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Feb 10, 2017.
Vasco name ex-Brazil striker Fabiano in squad
Vasco da Gama on Friday revealed they are close to signing Luis Fabiano by registering the former Brazil international striker in their squad for the Rio de Janeiro state championship. But his availability hinges on whether he is able to rescind his contract with Tianjin Quanjian, according to the Globo newspaper.
Brazil boosts ideas of record soybean and safrina corn crops
Conab, the Brazilian crop supply agency lifted its forecast for the second-season corn crop by some 2.5m tonnes, citing good weather. Conab forecast the Brazilian safrinha crop, which is sown after soybeans are harvested, up 44% year-on-year, to 58.59m tonnes.
Brazilian governor wants more troops to help quell violence
A Brazilian governor said Wednesday that he needs more soldiers to help cope with a police crisis that has led to a wave of violence and at least 80 deaths in his southeastern state. Cesar Colnago, acting governor of Espirito Santo, told reporters that he would ask the federal government for more troops, saying the 1,000 soldiers already sent were not enough to stem the tide of violence.
Military police families’ protest paralyzes Brazilian state
Protests by friends and family of military police officers in a coastal Brazilian state have touched off a crime wave and forced the shutdown of some state services, authorities said Monday. At the request of the Espirito Santo state government, federal troops began arriving Monday night to help patrol the streets.
Brazil sends troops to state torn by violence due to police strike
Brazil’s president on Monday ordered 200 troops to the southeastern state of Espirito Santo, where a police strike in recent days sparked a wave of violence including what is already believed to be dozens of murders. The law enforcement stoppage in a state struggling with a budget shortfall is the latest example of how depleted public finances, amid Brazil’s worst recession on record, are crippling even basic health services, education and security in some states.
Tests determine Brazil’s ex- first lady legally dead
Workers Party supporters stand outside the Sirio Libanes hospital, where former first lady Marisa Leticia Lula da Silva is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017.
Piranhas in Brazil savagely devour huge bull’s head
This is the gruesome moment a bull’s head was ripped to the bone by a shoal of bloodthirsty piranhas. The fish tore into the animal’s flesh after it was dipped into the murky waters of the Amazon river by a local man standing on a gondola.
Brazil’s ‘Car Wash’ prosecutor says corruption probe to grow
Deltan Dallagnol, lead federal prosecutor in the so-called Car Wash investigation, gives an interview in Curitiba, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. The lead federal prosecutor in the massive corruption investigation roiling Brazil says recent developments could double the size of the case, a staggering possibility given that the probe has ensnared many of the country’s elite, threatens to bring down President Michel Temer and is expanding to other Latin American countries.
Arrest warrant issued for fallen Brazilian billionaire
Authorities in Brazil have issued an arrest warrant for former billionaire Eike Batista, the latest business leader implicated in a giant corruption investigation. Batista, once ranked by Forbes as the world’s seventh-richest man, is the most recent target of Operation Car Wash, an alleged multi-billion-dollar kickback scheme that has led to the arrest of hundreds of politicians and business moguls.
Brazil’s Cyrela eyes asset swap with Canadian public pension fund
Jan 24 Brazil’s Cyrela Commercial Properties SA is in talks with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for a potential asset swap and joint ventures to invest up to $400 million in new commercial office space. Cyrela said in a securities filing on Tuesday that it had signed a non-binding agreement regarding the transfer of a 33 percent equity stake in its office buildings in exchange for CPPIB’s 25 percent stake in Cyrela’s warehouse business.
FEATURE-In Rio’s oldest favela, a cable car ferries residents -…
Perched on a hill beside the concrete skyscrapers of Rio’s central business district stands the city’s oldest favela whose rising – and now declining – fortunes mirror those of Brazil itself. First established by landless veterans fresh from putting down an uprising in northeastern Brazil in 1897, Morro da Providencia is considered Rio’s first informal settlement or favela.
Brazil president to wait to replace justice killed in crash
In this photo released by Brazil’s Presidency, Brazil’s President Michel Temer attends the funeral of Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Saturday, Jan 21, 2017. Brazil’s president said Saturday that he would wait to name a replacement for the Supreme Court justice who died in a plane crash until after the court reassigns a major corruption case he was handling.
Police enter Brazil prison after gang clash; control tenuous
Special Operations Battalion Police officers enter the Alcacuz prison amid tension between rival gangs in Nisia Floresta, near Natal, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017.Military police took control of the prison in northeastern Brazil after fighting between rival gangs left 26 inmates dead, the latest in a spate of violence in the country’s penitentiaries.
Police take control of Brazil prison after gang fighting
Military police took control Saturday of a prison in northeastern Brazil after fighting between rival gangs left 26 inmates dead in recent days, the latest in a spate of violence in the country’s penitentiaries. A week after the violence first erupted at Alcacuz prison, military police, including riot police and others, moved into the complex outside the city of Natal.
Brazil president to wait to replace justice killed in crash
Brazil’s president said Saturday that he would wait to name a replacement for the Supreme Court justice who died in a plane crash until after the court reassigns a major corruption case he was handling. Justice Teori Zavascki was in charge of handling accusations against politicians in the “Car Wash” investigation, a multibillion dollar kickback scheme involving the state oil company Petrobras.
Brazilian Judge Handling Graft Probe Dies in Plane Crash
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Supreme Court justice in Brazil dies in plane crash
In this March 4, 2015, file photo, Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki attends a session of the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil. Zavascki’s son said that his father was on a plane that crashed off the coast of the city in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017.
French artist JR’s work to be showcased in Katara
Qatar Museums will showcase some of the key series that made French street artist JR gain international renowned in a major retrospective to open on March 6 at QM Gallery in Katara. JR is amongst a handful of world-famous artists that combines art and engaged actions through large-scale outdoor installations, films, photographs and videos, using the streetscape as his canvas and his inspiration, which he claims as the largest art gallery in the world.
Global warming could steal postcard-perfect weather days
Newlywed couples took advantage of the unusual warm weather for the month … . In this image provided by Karin van der Wiel/ NOAA/ Princeton University, shows climate change effects on patterns of mild weather.
Brazilian pianist Pianist Fernando M ller to perform at NSU Jan. 26
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Brazil struggles to curb prison violence that has killed 125
In this Jan. 15, 2017 file photo, inmates stand surrounded by police after a deadly prison riot at the Alcacuz prison in Nisia Floresta, Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil. Brazilian authorities are scrambling to find ways to stop a wave of prison violence that has killed at least 125 inmates in two weeks, many decapitated and with their hearts and intestines ripped out.