Americas Brazil news Protest Rio de Janeiro World news‘They’re treating us like thieves’: Rio de Janeiro traders rage as historic flea market shutsTheWorldsNewsFebruary 11, 2024 by TheWorldsNewsFebruary 11, 20240 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...
Americas Brazil Culture Music news Pop and rock Rio de Janeiro Taylor Swift World newsTaylor Swift fan died of heat exhaustion at Rio concert, forensics report findsTheWorldsNewsDecember 28, 2023 by TheWorldsNewsDecember 28, 20230 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...
Americas Brazil news Rio de Janeiro Taylor Swift World newsTaylor Swift fan dies before Brazil concert amid sweltering conditionsTheWorldsNewsNovember 18, 2023 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 18, 20230 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...
Americas Art Brazil Music news Rio de Janeiro World news‘Funk is the reality we live’: Rio show celebrates sound of the favelaTheWorldsNewsNovember 5, 2023 by TheWorldsNewsNovember 5, 20230 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...
Americas Brazil Gun crime news Rio de Janeiro World news‘The state is murderous’: Brazilians vow justice for 13-year-old boy shot by policeTheWorldsNewsAugust 13, 2023 by TheWorldsNewsAugust 13, 20230 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...
Americas Brazil news Rio de Janeiro World newsRio carnival groups fight for right to party ahead of official celebrationsTheWorldsNewsApril 18, 2022 by TheWorldsNewsApril 18, 20220 Samba schools will return to action but ‘blocos’ – street groups – are furious they have not yet received authorization to gather Some of Rio’s...