The Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will not be cancelled and the mosquito-borne virus will not affect the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. Speaking in Los Angeles on Monday, IOC President Thomas Bach expressed confidence that there will be good conditions for athletes and spectators at the Rio[…]
The largest concentration of Arabs outside the Middle East is in Brazil, which has 9 million Brazilians of Arab ancestry, according to Saudi Aramco World. Of these 9 million Arabs, seven million are of Lebanese ancestry making Brazil’s population of Lebanese greater than that of Lebanon itself. Currently, the refugees[…]
Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians marched peacefully Sunday in more than 150 cities around the country to demand President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment and to criticize government corruption amid a sprawling graft inquiry at state-run oil firm Petrobras. The biggest of the protests, held on the 30th anniversary of Brazil’s return[…]
Brazil’s incumbent president Dilma Rousseff has won a second term, defeating her opposition rival Aecio Neves with a narrow margin in a nearly complete count of votes after a presidential run-off election. An official tally of 99.66 percent of ballots showed Rousseff with 51.60 percent of valid votes and Neves[…]
After a presidential campaign steeped in drama, Brazilians opted Sunday for a relatively undramatic runoff election featuring the two parties that have governed for the past 20 years. Frustrated with an economic slowdown and corrupt politicians, voters flirted for weeks with Socialist candidate Marina Silva’s promise of a “new politics,”[…]
Even for an 84-year-old tournament drenched in history, Germany 7, Brazil 1 – you read that right – will be remembered as one of the craziest World Cup matches ever. Because of the humiliation it inflicted on a great footballing nation, as one of the most painful to watch, too.[…]
While people are still deciding to watch the 2014 Fifa World Cup hosted in Brazil there does not appear to be much hype in the air, amongst Capetonians. Most people will not be watching the matches and find following football a waste of time. Daily routines will not be disturbed[…]
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