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In Brazil, a 4-year-old girl mistook drugs for sherbet and shared them with her friends
The children mistook the substance for sherbet and consumed the Class A drug. One of them then reported to a teacher that they had been given a package with a ’bad taste’, which led to a police call.
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Vast areas of Amazon rainforest have been cleared to construct a road for the climate summit
Acres of Amazon rainforest trees cut down to build road for climate summit
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Moment a screaming girl is rescued from Fritzl-style dungeon before the kidnapper is killed
A 9-year-old girl was discovered tied up in the cellar of a shop in Brazil after police heard her screams; she reported that she had been abused by the owner, who was subsequently lynched by a mob.
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Significant clue surfaces in the search for missing British journalist in Brazil
A British journalist who is missing in Brazil may be hundreds of miles away from her last known location, it has emerged.
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Police disclose new lead in hunt for missing British journalist Charlotte Peet
Detectives searching for a missing British journalist in Brazil have revealed her phone is still switched on as her family urges police to ramp up their search efforts.
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British journalist Charlotte Peet missing in Brazil
The freelance correspondent was last reported to be in Sao Paulo before losing communication with her family.
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Footballer Gabriel Popo, 26, tragically passes away just moments before he was set to play a match
Clubs in Brazil have honored XV de Jau midfielder Gabriel Popo after he sadly passed away at the age of 26, just minutes before he was scheduled to play in a match.
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Meta intends to connect the US and India with the world’s longest undersea cable project
Project Waterworth, which involves a cable longer than the Earth’s circumference, will also reach South Africa and Brazil.
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Assassination of Europe’s ’most wanted’ drug lord who once faked his death
Marco Ebben was one of Europe’s ‘most wanted’ men for smuggling drugs from Brazil to the Netherlands.
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Woman who ’murdered family with poisoned Christmas cake’ found dead in prison cell
Deise Moura dos Anjos, who was accused of fatally poisoning three members of her family with a Christmas cake, has been found dead in her cell at a women’s penitentiary.
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WWII ghost ship sunk by Nazis found off Brazil coast
The remnants of a World War II warship that Nazis sunk off the coast of Brazil have been discovered more than 80 years later.
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Influencer and pilot die after private jet catches fire on a busy street
The two victims of a plane crash in Brazil’s biggest city are an influencer and the pilot he hired to fly him around, according to local media.
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Couple found brutally executed hours after being kidnapped by fake cops
Alex Bruno Silva dos Santos, 28, and Maria Leticia Sousa da Silva, 26, were kidnapped from their home in Brazil by four men dressed as police and later found murdered.
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Two killed after plane collides with vehicles on busy road in Sao Paulo
Two people have died after a plane crashed into vehicles on a busy road in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.
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Mystery of World War Two ship torpedoed by Nazi Germany finally resolved
A World War Two ship torpedoed by Adolf Hitler has been discovered along the coast of Rio De Janeiro using sonar imaging.
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Billionaire plans to construct a statue of the Virgin Mary that surpasses the height of Christ the Redeemer
An iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil could soon be dwarfed by a new statue of Jesus’s mother.
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Step-mum allegedly tricked 3-year-old girl into falling into a washing machine full of water, leading to her drowning
Isabelly Oliveira Assuncao, three, drowned when she climbed onto a side and fell into a top loaded washing machine while under the care of her stepmother in Parana, Brazil.
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Inside Crackland: the open-air drug market that São Paulo just can’t kick
In the heart of São Paulo, an area as big as London’s Soho stands as a harrowing symbol of Brazil’s war on drugs for more than 30 years.
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Police to dig up man’s body after wife’s ‘poisoned’ Christmas cake kills three
This is the woman who baked a ‘poisoned’ Christmas cake that is believed to have killed her two sisters and a niece.
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In Brazil, a plane crashed into buildings, killing nine people
Initial reports suggest all people on board were killed in the crash.
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Forensic technology supports Brazil’s crackdown on illegal Amazon gold trade
Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil’s Amazon to the United States, Dubai and Italy.
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Murder at Brazil’s busiest airport highlights failures in witness protection
The assassination of a police informant in São Paulo’s main international airport has exposed serious flaws in Brazil’s witness protection system, complicating efforts to dismantle powerful organized crime networks.
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BHP accused of dodging responsibility for Brazilian dam collapse, UK court hears
BHP (BHP.AX), opens new tab is cynically trying to avoid its responsibility for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, lawyers representing thousands of victims told London’s High Court on Monday, as a lawsuit worth up to 36 billion pounds ($47 billion) began.
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Brazilian municipal candidates accused of modern slavery
Four candidates in Brazil’s recent municipal elections appear on the country’s newest “Dirty List,” which names people or companies accused of holding workers in modern day slavery.
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Narco-Subs Sail the Caribbean
The Caribbean, historically a key region for drug trafficking, has once again become the center of attention with the seizure of a narco-submarine, signaling the use of these types of vessels is potentially becoming a more common tactic for drug shipments in this smuggling route.
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