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AP Interview: Guardian journalist says Snowden has ‘blueprints’ to how NSA is built, operates

YoopyaJul 15, 2013July 4, 20240

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Edward Snowden has highly sensitive documents on how the National Security Agency is structured and operates that could harm the

Brazil leader breaks silence about protests

YoopyaJun 22, 2013August 4, 20240

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff spoke about her generation’s struggles in battling a dictatorship during a prime-time speech meant to connect with

Brazil leaders to meet as protests, violence grow

YoopyaJun 21, 2013August 4, 20240

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police and protesters fought in the streets into the early hours Friday as an estimated 1 million Brazilians swarmed through

Brazil in talks to hire 6,000 Cuban doctors

YoopyaMay 7, 2013September 2, 20240

Brazil has begun negotiations to hire at least 6,000 Cuban doctors to work in rural areas, Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota says. Both countries are

Brazilian state of Acre in illegal immigration alert

YoopyaApr 12, 20130

The Brazilian state of Acre has declared a state of emergency after a surge of illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bolivia and Peru. Officials said most

Special Report: Rough justice as Brazil tries to right past wrongs to Indians

YoopyaApr 10, 20130

(Reuters) – Damião Paridzané was nine years old in 1966 when the Brazilian Air Force loaded him and hundreds of other Xavante Indians onto a

Amazon murders: Two convicted of 2011 Brazil killings

YoopyaApr 5, 20130

A judge in Brazil has found two men guilty of the murder in 2011 of two activists in the Amazon rainforest. The men were sentenced

Rio de Janeiro bus in deadly viaduct fall

YoopyaApr 3, 20130

Seven people have died in Rio de Janeiro after a bus fell 10m from a viaduct in the city centre, Brazilian police say. Several more

Rio Olympics 2016 stadium ‘will not be demolished’

YoopyaMar 29, 2013June 24, 20230

The mayor of Rio de Janeiro has said the stadium due to host the athletics events at the 2016 Olympics will not be demolished, despite

Brazil studies Curitiba doctor’s link to 300 deaths

YoopyaMar 28, 20130

Some 300 deaths at a Brazilian hospital are being studied for possible links to a medical team charged with murder. Dr Virginia Soares de Souza