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  • Bangladeshis being trafficked to Brazil

    Police in Brazil have identified a gang specialising in trafficking Bangladeshi nationals into the country, a media report said. About 80 Bangladeshi workers have been lured with promises of earning up to $1,500 a month. But they ended up as slave labourers in order to pay their smugglers nearly $10,000, BBC reported citing the Agencia Brasil news agency. South America's biggest economy has ...

  • Bayer Leverkusen bid for Corinthians Romarinho

    Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen has reportedly made a bid to sign highly rated Brazilian playmaker Romarinho. The German outfit has offered Corinthians 12 million euros to secure the 22-year-old in the European summer transfer window, reports Xinhua. Romarinho emerged on Brazil's football scene last year as a striker but has been transformed into an attacking midfielder by Corinthians coach ...

  • Rousseff opens Brasilia World Cup stadium

    Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff officially opened Brasilia's Mane Garrincha World Cup stadium. Despite controversy surrounding delays and cost overruns, Rousseff said the 71,000-seat venue was now the source of pride among Brazilians, reports Xinhua. "A year ago they said that we wouldn't build our stadiums, that they wouldn't be ready. But now we are seeing that the stadiums have been ...

  • Real Rebound Seen as Brazil Addresses Inflation Market Reversal

    Brazilian central bank President Alexandre Tombini's commitment to fighting inflation is increasing the prospects the real will rebound from a four-month low, trading patterns show. The currency weakened 0.7 percent against the dollar last week, sending it outside the so-called trading envelope for the first time since March, which typically indicates that a decline will be difficult ...

  • Brazil officials must register gay unions as marriages

    By The Associated Press Brazilian notaries public must register same-sex civil unions as marriages if the couple requests it, the country's National Council of Justice said Tuesday. The council that oversees the country's judiciary said in a statement that notaries public cannot refuse to marry gay couples or convert a same-sex civil union into a marriage if that's what the pair ...

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End of Watch

David Ayers End of Watch is a potentially powerful story about the lethal daily grind of patrolling South Central Los Angeles that is wrecked by misguided aesthetics. Ayer, who grew up in South Central and is best known as the screenwriter of The Fast and the Furious (2001) ... ...

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  • How A Free Press Is Threatened By Latin American Governments

    One of the greatest threats to press freedom in Latin America comes in the form of shady criminal groups like Mexican drug cartels or Colombian paramilitaries who harass and sometimes murder journalists that report on their activities. Increasingly, however, a new threat is emerging in the hemisphere. It comes in the form of democratically elected officials. These politicians, who wear suave ...

  • US robots Israeli drones to help make 2014 World Cup in Brazil one of safest sporting events ever

    World Cup 2014 Brazil has added 30 US military robots to the Israeli drones and 'Robocop-style' glasses with face recognition cameras to its arsenal after the country allocated $900 million to make 2014 World Cup "one of the most protected sports events in history." The 30 PackBot 510 units, which usually cost between $100,000 and $200,000 apiece, will arrive in Brazil as ...

  • Jordy Smith surfs to ASP win in Brazil

    surfing tournament Sunday. Smith navigated the 2-to-4 foot swells at Barra Da Tijuca to win the third stop on the Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour by a score of 17.80-16.34. Smith scored high by catching air on one productive wave and performing a so-called stailfish air-reverse on another. It was the third career ASP victory for the 25-year-old Smith and his first ...

  • Corrida da Ponte Half Marathon 2013 Daily

    Chesney Hearst By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Early on the morning of Sunday, May 19th, over eight thousand registered runners will take part in the Corrida da Ponte (The Bridge Run), a 21.4 km half marathon across the famous bridge known as the Ponte Rio-Niteri, which connects the cities of Rio de Janeiro ...

  • Uruguay and Brazil prove opposites attract

    Uruguay are filled with episodes of rivalry and tension, the countries' peoples insist instead on a relationship based on friendship and admiration. Thus, despite having motives aplenty to produce angst-filled on-the-pitch encounters, it is simply not the case ...

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