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BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has been hit by severe floods for the second time in less than a week. Local media report that six people have died in mudslides caused by heavy rain.
Heavy rain brought Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo grinding to a halt on Tuesday and reportedly claimed the lives of six people in landslides.
One of the big challenges for Brazil before it hosts the 2016 Olympics is getting a handle on violent crime. The major cities — Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo — have long been plagued by murderous gang violence. But a new Human Rights Watch report claims Brazilian police have met violence with violence. Daniel Wilkinson, one of the report's authors, talks to Steve Inskeep about police using ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Authorities arrested five men and one woman accused of tunneling their way to nearly $6 million over the weekend while Brazil was gripped with football fever, but detectives recovered only a tiny fraction of the stolen cash, police said Tuesday.
Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.
What's Your Reaction? SAO PAULO — Brazilian media report that thieves tunneled their way to a money transport firm and made off with nearly $6 million.
SAO PAULO - Authorities say they have dismantled a U.S. visa scam in Brazil that raked in about $53 million from 4,500 victims since 2002. Eleven suspects were arrested in four Brazilian states.The U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo says the suspects victimized B...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Authorities say they have dismantled a U.S. visa scam in Brazil that raked in about $53 million from 4,500 victims since 2002. Eleven suspects were arrested in four Brazilian states.
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil is trying to convince its peers in the Southern Cone Common Market, or Mercosur, to conduct trade in local currencies and not the U.S. dollar, the local Estado newswire reported from Uruguay Monday.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA , Brazil’s second-biggest airline, rose to a 19-month high in Sao Paulo trading after reporting that the number of seats taken on its flights jumped last month from the year-earlier period.
olice in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.
SAO PAULO (AP) - Thieves who spent months tunneling from a rented house to an armored car company's safe made off with nearly $6 million over the weekend, making their getaway as season-ending football matches virtually shut down Brazil.
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil's economy likely continued to rebound from a recession earlier this year as domestic demand has sparked a return to growth in Latin America's largest economy.
SAO PAULO — Authorities say they have dismantled a U.S. visa scam in Brazil that raked in abou...
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's lights will stay on whether or not the planned Belo Monte hydroelectric dam ever sees the light of day, some top sector analysts said Monday.
Sao Paulo - Police in the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Rai de Janeiro regularly use excessive violence and resort to extra- judicial executions, a human rights group said in a report released Tuesday. Police officers in Rio de Janeiro and Sao P...
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