Rio’s Olympic waterways full of trash, sewage
By JENNY BARCHFIELD Small boats sit on the shore of Guanabara Bay in the suburb of Sao Goncalo, across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013.…
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Brazilians demand information on Rio slum resident
Rocinha Pacifying Police Unit officers watch as demonstrators gather demanding to know the whereabouts of the mortal remains of Bricklayer Amarildo de Souza who disappeared while in police custody in…
DEMONSTRATIONS TURN VIOLENT IN BRAZIL
A demonstrator with his face covered jumps over a burning barricade at the Cinelandia square during a march in support of teachers on strike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday,…
BRAZIL LEADER POSTPONES TRIP TO US OVER SPYING
By BRADLEY BROOKS FILE – In this April 9, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, meets with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff in the Oval Office of the White House…
CITIES MAKE FINAL PITCHES AHEAD OF 2020 VOTE
By STEPHEN WILSON Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan arrives to attend the Istanbul 2020 bid presentation during the International Olympic Committee session, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.…
BRAZIL COURT CONVICTS 3 FOR RAPE OF AMERICAN
FILE – In this April 2, 2013 file photo, suspects Wallace Aparecido Souza Silva, left, Carlos Armando Costa dos Santos, center, and Jonathan Foudakis de Souza are presented to the…
POPE DRAWS 3M FOR VIGIL AFTER CHASTISING ‘EXODUS’
By NICOLE WINFIELD and JENNY BARCHFIELD Pilgrims and residents gather on Copacabana beach before the arrival of Pope Francis for World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 27, 2013.…
POPE TELLS BISHOPS TO GET OUT OF THEIR CHURCHES
By NICOLE WINFIELD An altar boy breaks protocol and runs to embrace Pope Francis during a Stations of the Cross service on the Copacabana beachfront in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday,…