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A stadium collapse that killed seven people highlighted the crumbling state of Brazil’s soccer arenas less than a month after the country was chosen to host the 2014 World Cup,…
The survival of Brazil’s flagship airline Varig is on the line as a group of employees scramble to raise money for a first payment on the carrier, which faces liquidation if the…
A bankruptcy court judge has postponed Monday’s scheduled auction of Brazil’s debt-ridden flagship airline Viacao Aerea Rio-Grandense (Varig), the company said on Friday. The…
Rio happily swapped a group of ageing British rockers for scantily clad dancers and the relentless beat of hundreds of drums on Monday as Brazil’s top-tier groups faced off in…
Environmentalists were caught off guard when South American leaders announced plans to build a massive natural-gas pipeline through the Amazon rainforest. Proponents say the…
Plans to build an underwater branch of the Guggenheim museum are dead in the water, Rio’s mayor said on Thursday. ”The first project offered lots of risks, even functional ones…
Inmates at a prison near Rio de Janeiro who shot and killed a guard and held 21 hostages agreed on Monday to a fresh round of negotiations with police on how to end the three…
