Tag: Brazil
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets for 4-Nation tourney in Korea
The U-17 national team, Golden Eaglets, will play hosts Korea Republic in their first match at the 4-Nation Suwon International…
Brazil’s Rousseff rejects gloomy 2016 economic prediction
Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, has rejected predictions that the country’s economy would experience immense difficulty in 2016, though she could…
Brazil beat Venezuela, advance to Copa quarters
Santiago (AFP) – Brazil shrugged off the absence of suspended captain Neymar to reach the Copa America quarter-finals with a…
Eight football fans shot dead in Brazil
Eight football fans were gunned down ahead of a semi-final match at the Corinthians fan club headquarters in Sao Paulo,…
Brazil investigates World Cup graft claim
Brazil said Monday it has ordered an investigation following allegations that the subsidiary of a German company paid bribes to…
49 dead in Brazil tour bus crash
At least 49 people were killed Saturday when a tour bus plunged hundreds of meters into a densely wooded ravine…
Brazil to investigate 54 politicians in Petrobras scandal
A prosecutor in Brazil has asked the Supreme Court to investigate 54 politicians over a massive graft case that has…
Two killed, 29 wounded in Brazil prison riot
A police officer and an inmate were killed and 29 prisoners wounded Monday in the latest riot to hit Brazil’s…
Brazil, Netherlands furious after Indonesia executed drug convicts
Brazil and the Netherlands recalled their ambassadors from Indonesia and expressed fury Sunday after Jakarta defied their pleas and executed…
Brazil bus crash kills 9, wounds over 30
Nine people died and 30 more were injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in southern Brazil around dawn…
Morocco, Brazil benefit more from $8bn climate fund
Half of nearly $8 billion in climate finance given to the developing world since 2003 went to just ten countries,…
Its ‘I Do Day’ In Rio: Nearly 4,000 tie the knot
It was Rio’s biggest mass wedding: a total of 1,960 couples who exchanged vows Sunday in a hall next to…
Thousands of Brazilians march in gay rights parade
Thousands of Brazilians took part Sunday in Rio de Janeiro’s 19th Gay pride parade, speaking out against homophobia in a…
Brazil legend Pele stable after kidney stone operation
Brazilian soccer legend Pele was in a stable condition Thursday following surgery for kidney stones, the Sao Paulo hospital treating…
Brazil welcomes FIFA $100 million World Cup legacy fund
The President of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), Jose Maria Marin, Monday welcomed the signing of a memorandum enshrining implementation…