| October 1, 2008 | - In Brazil, where politicians often adopt new names for elections, six candidates had taken the name Barack Obama. Other candidates called themselves Cattle Ana, Jeep Johnny, Big Charlie Knives, Jorge Bushi, Chico Bin Laden, DJ Saddam, King of the Cuckolds, and Kung Fu Fatty.
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Telegraph
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| April 30, 2008 | -
Brazilian football star Ronaldo picked up and was blackmailed by three transvestite prostitutes,.
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BBC
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| April 25, 2008 | - Father Adelir Antonio de Carli, a Brazilian priest attempting to set a world record for flight with helium balloons, disappeared after he was blown over the Atlantic Ocean, leaving only a cluster of balloons in his wake.
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National Post
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| May 9, 2007 | - The Pope traveled to Brazil, where he canonized a nineteenth-century friar who healed people by giving them written prayers in pill form.
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AP via Yahoo
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| April 16, 2007 | - In Rio police clashed with drug gangs in a shootout that left at least 19 people dead. Brazilian Justice Minister Tarso Genro announced that the federal government would send hundreds more police officers to the city. “For young people,” said a spokeswoman for nonprofit Observatory of the Favelas, “this is a genocide. And I don't mean that as a metaphor. It really is a genocide.”
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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| November 17, 2006 | - It was reported that a Brazilian
cat named Mimi had mated with a dog and birthed hybrid kitten-pups.
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Reuters
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| April 27, 2006 | - A farmer in Brazil pleaded guilty to killing a 73-year-old nun; the farmer had been paid by two ranchers to shoot the nun after she attempted to stop the ranchers from clearing a section of rainforest.
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Sun-Sentinel.com
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| April 21, 2006 | -
Brazil was planning to open a uranium-enrichment center.
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AP via STLToday.com
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| April 4, 2006 | -
Scientists in Brazil discovered a new species of tube-snouted ghost knifefish.
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Practical fishkeeping
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| April 1, 2006 | - Astronaut Marco Pontes became the first Brazilian in space.
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CNN.com
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| February 25, 2006 | - In Brazil paintings by Picasso, Dali, Matisse, and Monet were stolen during Carnival.
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BBC News
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| November 7, 2005 | - He also visited Brazil, where he looked at a map with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “Wow,” said Bush. “Brazil is big!”
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The San Francisco Chronicle
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| November 2, 2005 | - Twenty-three people had died in Brazil from rabies transmitted by vampire bats.
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BBC News
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| August 16, 2005 | - Secret documents revealed that Jean Charles De Menezes, the Brazilian electrician shot and killed as a terrorist by police on a London train, was not carrying any bags, was not wearing a bulky winter coat, and did not jump any turnstiles. He was, however, still shot seven times in the head.
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ITN
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| August 8, 2005 | - In Brazil thieves tunneled 656 feet into a bank in order to steal up to $65 million.
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BBC News
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| July 22, 2005 | - Around twenty London police officers chased a Brazilian electrician named Jean Charles de Menezes onto a train and shot him dead, thinking he was a terrorist.
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BBC News
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| May 30, 2005 | - Hundreds of thousands of people marched for gay rights in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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BBC News
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| May 16, 2005 | - In Brazil, a man and his parents were murdered when the man lost a real-life role-playing murder game.
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AP News
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| April 24, 2005 | - Lucio Gutierrez, the recently ousted president of Ecuador, fled to Brazil to avoid arrest.
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BBC News
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| April 14, 2005 | - The president of Brazil visited Senegal, where he apologized for Brazil's role in the slave trade.
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BBC News
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| December 29, 2004 | - and tourist muggings were up in Rio de Janeiro.
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New York Times
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| June 2, 2004 | - Thirty prisoners and one guard died in a prison uprising in Brazil.
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New York Times
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| May 14, 2004 | - The president of Brazil tried to expel a New York Times reporter who wrote an unflattering article about his drinking problem.
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New York Times
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| May 9, 2004 | -
Brazilians were worried that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva drinks too much.
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New York Times
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| April 8, 2004 | -
Brazil said that it had gotten the destruction of the Amazon rain forest under control and that only 9,169 square miles (an area the size of Massachusetts) were destroyed last year.
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Associated Press
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| January 2, 2004 | -
Police in São Paolo, Brazil, began fingerprinting and photographing American tourists to comply with a judge's order that Americans be treated like Brazilians who enter the U.S.
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Guardian
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| December 28, 2003 | -
Piranha attacks were on the rise in Brazil.
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BBC
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| December 8, 2003 | - Fourteen people were arrested in Brazil and South Africa for selling human organs on the black market.
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New York Times
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| March 27, 2001 | - The world's largest offshore oil rig sank off Rio de Janeiro, spilling 400,000 gallons of oil and diesel fuel.
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