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Prisoners in a heavily overpopulated Milton Dias Moreira prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have revolted and hold an unknown number of guards and staff members hostage.

Going on a world trip costs money. Lots of money. Many people therefore choose to do some work here and there while traveling. Similarly the Italian couple Kim (23) and Paolo (28). However, they have found a remarkable way to earn a living: the couple films themselves during sex and publishes the videos on their own site.

In the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais the state of emergency has been declared because of a deadly outbreak of yellow fever. The tropical disease has cost the lives of at least fifteen people since December.

In a prison outbreak near the Brazilian capital Brasilia, nine prisoners were killed and fourteen were injured. According to the daily newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, 106 prisoners escaped from the prison of the town of Goiânia on Monday. The police were only able to capture 27 escapees again.

The prominent jurist Carla del Ponte has said goodbye to the United Nations Human Rights Council. She released her frustrations about the fact that no special tribunal was established to punish war crimes committed in Syria.

Members of an isolated Indian tribesman in the Amazon area, who some years ago photographed a picture, were supposed to be murdered by a group of gold seekers with whom they came into contact. The Brazilian OM has launched an investigation into the killings of ten Indians, in the Javar Valley- one of the largest indigenous territories in the North American country.

Researchers have discovered 381 new animal and plant species in the Amazon region. This happened during a 24-month study, according to the World Nature Fund (WNF), a new species was revealed on average every two days.

Eleven people died on Tuesday afternoon after a tree on festival visitors fell on the Portuguese island of Madeira. That reports Portuguese media.

The South American Economic Cooperation Mercosur has suspended Venezuela as a member on Saturday.

The former boss of the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras and ex-topman of Banco do Brasil, Aldemir Bendine, has been arrested in a corruption investigation. Brazilian media reported that it was arrested by the federal police in Sorocaba in the state of São Paulo. Bendine is suspected of having taken over from one of the largest construction companies in the world, the Brazilian company Odebrecht.

The immense forest fire in the Pedrógão Grande region proves that civil protection in Portugal is not up to such natural disasters. That says Paulo Fernandes, professor of forestry at the University of Vila Real against the newspaper Público.

Brazilian President Michel Temer refuses to resign, even if he is charged with the Supreme Court. 'I do not resign. Turn me off if you want, 'said a controversial Temer published in a Monday interview with the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper.

Following a call from unions and social organizations, in some fifteen Brazilian cities protesters have gone up the road to demand the resignation of President Michel Temer. The newspaper Jornal O Globo reported that there were demonstrations in, among others, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Recife and Belo Horizonte.

The Brazilian Supreme Court has given permission for an investigation into the corridors of President Michel Temer. He is accused of agreeing to bribe an important witness in a corruption investigation.

The Brazilian President Michel Temer was heavily under attack on Wednesday. He is accused of having accepted payments to impose a possible witness in a corruption investigation. Temer denies that there have been payments.

This year so far slain in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, 51 police officers. That's a record for the period since tracking those numbers began 23 years ago.

The former president of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha, was sentenced Thursday to prison for fifteen years. The federal court found him guilty of corruption. The lawyers of the former politician said immediately going to appeal against the verdict signs. Cunha have to wait in jail.

When a major fire in one of the many favelas in São Paulo, Brazil destroyed at least fifty houses. The fire started in the slums Paraisópolis, only firefighters could extinguish the fire after hours.

In the northeastern Brazilian city of Belém has occurred between Friday and Saturday a series of thirty mysterious murders.

A plane with a member of the Brazilian Supreme Court has crashed Thursday off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state. The unit ended up in the sea in the tourist town of Paraty, sources say.

Chinese taxi app Didi Chuxing bought last year, the Chinese branch of Uber, but American competitor wants to put the fire further to the shin. The company announced Wednesday investing heavily in Brazilian rival 99. Didi, Didi Chuxing also called, was the largest investor in an investment round of over $ 100 million.

A man on Saturday night caused a massacre during the New Year at a house party in the Brazilian city of Campinas. He burst in and shot his ex-wife, his eight year old son, nine visitors and death itself.

The lawyers of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Saturday criticized the fourth indictment in the corruption process that runs against Lula.

The day after the air crash with the Brazilian club Chapeco Armenian aboard the investigation into the cause of the accident continues. The crew reported minutes before the crash electronic problems. The possibility that the unit of fuel came down, is examined.

In a revolt of prisoners in a Brazilian prison Monday escaped a large number of prisoners. The military police reported that fled between 200 and 300 people. The management of the prison spoke of 55 escapees.

After an uprising in a Brazilian jail have escaped at least two hundred prisoners. Brazilian media reported on Thursday (local time) that the prisoners in Jardinópolis, a town north of the metropolis of São Paulo, a few buildings of the prison were fired. One of the prisoners was killed in life.

Brazil's former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday indicted for corruption. The charge is a hefty blow to the aspirations of the social democrat, which is still very popular and would breed a new bid for the presidency.

Police in Brazil on Sunday harshly dispersed a peaceful protest against the ousting of President Dilma Rousseff. Agents put under more tear gas against the demonstrators.

Conservative Vice President of Brazil Michel Temer, was Wednesday sworn in as successor to the deposed president Dilma Rousseff. Temer allowed her term of office, which runs until the end of 2018, serve out.