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Rio de Janeiro
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Northeastern Brazil
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 Brazil inaugurates first female president  | Dilma Rousseff was sworn in Saturday amid cheers and tears from supporters, many of whom followed her rise from freedom fighter. Dilma Rousseff is succeeding the popular President ... | |
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| Jan.12 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Flooding reportedly claims 260 lives Heavy rains and flooding in Brazil have caused 260 deaths in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo
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| Jan.13 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Thousands in peril in Brazil flooding Thousands of families living on mountain slopes face risk of being washed away in the heavy rains and flooding that have killed nearly 500 people
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| Jan.15 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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 Death toll rises to 549 in Brazil flooding  Map of Nova Friburgo Brazil Most of the deaths were reported in the cities of Nova Friburgo and Teresopolis, located in a mountainous region northeast of Rio
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Rio de Janeiro |
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Brazilian army in flood mission
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| Jan.16 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Brazilian flood death toll nears 600
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| Jan.17 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Death toll flooding continues rising
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| Jan.23 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Brazil landslide deaths top 800
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| Feb.14 |
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Brazil legend Ronaldo retires
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 Ecuador |
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Huge fine in Amazon pollution case| A court in Ecuador has fined US oil giant Chevron a reported $8bn for polluting a large part of the country's Amazon region | |
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| Feb.25 |
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Judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam
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| Feb.28 |
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At least 16 killed in pre-Carnival party
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| Mar.5 |
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Brazil bus collision kills 26
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| Mar.13 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
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Chevron appeals over Amazon fine
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| Mar.14 |
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Thousands left homeless by Brazil rains
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| Mar.19 |
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  Obama makes first Latin American trip President Obama's five-day tour to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador happens as a nuclear and humanitarian crisis unfold in Japan and Libya
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| Apr.4 |
Northeastern Brazil |
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 Bodies found from French air crash Nearly two years after an Air France plane fell out of the sky, killing 228 people, the bulk of the wreckage has been found with bodies still...
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| Apr.7 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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11 students killed in school shooting| The president announced three days of national mourning in the aftermath of a mass shooting , as the motive behind the killings remained unclear | |
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| Apr.12 |
Northeastern Brazil |
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Air France crash jet's tail found The tail section of an Air France plane which crashed over the Atlantic in 2009 has been found on the ocean floor
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| Apr.13 |
London |
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Gomes error gives Real win
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| Apr.18 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Rio school shooting pupils return Students have returned to the school in Brazil where a gunman killed 12 children on April 7
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| Apr.27 |
Northeastern Brazil |
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Air France flight recorder found Search teams say they have discovered part of a flight recorder from the Air France plane that crashed in 2009, off the coast of Brazil
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| May.1 |
Northeastern Brazil |
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Air France crash 'memory unit' recovered The memory unit that may tell why a jet plunged into the Atlantic nearly two years ago was recovered from the bottom of the ocean
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| May.5 |
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Brazil gay couples get new rights Supreme Court has voted overwhelmingly in favour of allowing same-sex couples the same legal rights as married heterosexuals
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Body recovered from Air France wreckage Search teams retrieved a body from the wreckage of the Air France airbus that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009
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| May.31 |
Northeastern Brazil |
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More bodies found at crash site 75 additional bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil two years ago
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| Jun.23 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Santos clinch Copa Libertadores crown
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Rio de Janeiro |
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Eight shot dead in Rio drug raid The group died in two separate exchanges of gunfire - lasting several hours - in the Engenho da Rainha neighbourhood
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| Jul.3 |
Argentina |
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Brazil held by Venezuela
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| Jul.18 |
Argentina |
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Brazil out of Copa America by Paraguay
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| Aug.4 |
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Defence Minister Nelson Jobim resigns President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has replaced her defence minister after he made disparaging remarks about other senior officials
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| Aug.10 |
West Germany |
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Germany finally beat Brazil
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| Aug.12 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Gang-fighting judge gunned down Patricia Acioli, renowned for her work against organised crime, has been shot dead in Rio de Janeiro State
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| Sep.16 |
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Brazil starts World Cup countdown
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| Oct.1 |
 Bolivia |
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Bolivia Amazon road march resumes Indigenous protesters have resumed a long-distance march against a road project, a week after their demonstration was broken up by police
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| Oct.29 |
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Lula diagnosed with throat cancer Former Brazilian President 66-year-old Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been diagnosed with throat cancer
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| Nov.2 |
Spain |
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Ronaldo milestone for Real
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| Nov.12 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Brazilian police move on Rio slum Map of Rocinha Brazil Brazilian police have begun an operation to clear Rio de Janeiro's biggest slum, Rocinha, of drug gangs
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| Nov.13 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Police target drug gangs in biggest slum Map of Rocinha Brazil| Brazil's police say they have completed an operation to clear Rio de Janeiro's biggest slum, Rocinha, of drug gangs | |
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| Nov.27 |
Sao Paulo |
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Webber claims first win of 2011
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| Dec.4 |
Sao Paulo |
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Brazil legend Socrates dies at 57
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| Dec.14 |
Japan |
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Santos cruise into Club World Cup final
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| Dec.26 |
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  Brazilian economy 'overtakes UK' Brazil has overtaken the UK as the world's sixth largest economy, CEBR, an economic research group, has said
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