Starmer aims to build ‘pragmatic and serious relationship’ in meeting with Xi
Prime minister wants bilateral at G20 to lead to closer ties with China, which he sees as key to faster growth Keir Starmer will become...
Category : Rio de Janeiro
Stray bullets and closed schools: Rio’s kids suffer as police crack down on gangs
Thousands of schoolchildren in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas miss classes and risk violence as Brazil’s police battle drug gangs Textbooks and marker pens are not...
Rio’s ‘narco-pentecostal’ gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close
Bible-bashing drug boss accused of targeting Afro-Brazilian religions and Catholic congregations Reports that a powerful Rio drug lord known for his extremist religious beliefs ordered...
Free Madonna concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil’s Copacabana beach
Area around Rio de Janeiro beach filled for several blocks as singer closes her Celebration world tour More than a million people have thronged Brazil’s...
‘They’re treating us like thieves’: Rio de Janeiro traders rage as historic flea market shuts
Feira de Acari is closed down by the mayor after claims that gangsters used it to sell stolen goods Manoel Ribeiro has never known a...
Taylor Swift fan died of heat exhaustion at Rio concert, forensics report finds
Ana Clara Benevides, 23, died hours after the singer’s 17 November show – a day when temperatures hit 40C Heat exhaustion caused the death of...
Taylor Swift fan dies before Brazil concert amid sweltering conditions
Pop star ‘devastated’ by death of woman, named in media as Ana Clara Benevides, 23, who reportedly fainted and had cardiac arrest Taylor Swift has...
‘Funk is the reality we live’: Rio show celebrates sound of the favela
Exhibition puts music previously shunned by elites as ‘stuff of outlaws’ in long tradition of black culture and resistance Hebert Amorim was eight when he...
‘The state is murderous’: Brazilians vow justice for 13-year-old boy shot by police
Thiago Menezes Flausino, who dreamed of becoming a footballer, was the ninth child to die in a shooting this year in Rio Those who knew...
Rio carnival groups fight for right to party ahead of official celebrations
Samba schools will return to action but ‘blocos’ – street groups – are furious they have not yet received authorization to gather Some of Rio’s...
