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Brazilians celebrate New Year’s in Rio despite COVID-19 surge

02:42 While most of Brazil’s cities have cancelledend of the yearcelebrations over growing concerns posed bythe COVID-19Omicron variant,Riode Janeiro’s famed New Year’s Eve festivities

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Sports project helps wounded police officers in Brazil

02:13 Two hundred and sixty Brazilians are taking part in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic games.What few know is that this edition has one competitor who trained in a pioneer project created

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Sports project helps wounded police officers in Brazil

02:43 Two hundred and sixty Brazilians are taking part in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.One of them trained in a pioneer program created by Rio de Janeiro´s Military Police.The projec

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UNESCO adds Rio botanical garden to world heritage site

03:00 Abotanicalgarden at the home of renowned landscape artist and amateur botanist,Roberto Burle Marx,was recently named a world heritage site byUNESCO, the United Nations Organizatio

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Rio de Janeiro is biggest Delta variant hotspot in Brazil

02:17 Brazil isthird in the world with more than20millionrecorded coronavirus infectionsandsecondinfatalities, now above570,000.The countryis struggling with its vaccine rollout and bra

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Brazil's first public treatment center for COVID long haulers

02:42 People who recover from COVID-19 often face a range of persistent symptoms months afterward.These survivors are known as long haulers. It'sbecoming a growing concern for health pr

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Rio de Janeiro hopes to become South America's digital nomads paradise

02:45 Relying on its reputation as the “Marvelous City,” Rio de Janeiro is joining the global race to attract long-term working tourists known as “digital nomads,” despite the ongoing C

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Protests in Brazil call to impeach President Jair Bolsonaro

02:02 Thousands of people returned to the streets on Saturday to stage a fourth round of protests calling the impeachment of Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.Demands for Bols

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Favela solar project helps reduce utility bills

02:16 Confronted with soaring electricity prices, a group of neighbors in one of Rio de Janeiro’sfavelas, or slums, has launched the country’s firstsolarenergy cooperative.Developed by

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Summer Games a challenge for Brazilian athletes amid COVID-19 outbreak

02:47 Under normal conditions, the upcoming Tokyo Olympics would be a challenge for Brazilian athletes. Now, things have become even more difficult amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The Brazil

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Why Copa America isn't getting Brazilians excited

02:01 On Saturday, July 10th, Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracanã Stadium will open its doors for the final of theCopaAmerica, the world’s oldest football tournament. But, with the pandemi

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Aida Dos Santos

02:40 The 1964 Tokyo Summer Games were the first Olympics to be held in Asia and an important milestone for putting Japan on a global stage.The Olympics were also significant for one Bl

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Brazil gears up for 2021 Tokyo Olympics

02:51 Under normal conditions,next month'sTokyo Olympics would be a challenge forBrazilian athletes.Nowthings have become even more challenging in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.Som

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Protestors in Brazil remember 500,000 COVID deaths

02:41 Sixteen months after Brazil recorded its first COVID-19 case, the country ​has surpassed the morbid milestone of half a million deaths. Brazil added 2,301 deaths to its tally ​on

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Global utility company investing heavily in Brazil’s favelas

02:28 Brazil’s subsidiary of China’s State Grid Corporation, the world’s largest utility company, has been investing heavily in the country’s power distribution, but also in social deve

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Brazil reports spike in child COVID deaths and infections

02:21 More than 454,000 Brazilianshave died fromCOVID-19 since the pandemic hit Latin America’s biggest countrylast year.At first, itwasthe elderly populationthat suffered the most.Now,

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Rio de Janeiro Zoo reopens after months shut down

02:49 Brazil is considered to be the most biologically diverse country in the world and while thecoronaviruspandemic continues to hit hard, Rio de Janeiro has at least something to cele