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The fire on the training complex of football club Flamengo, which killed ten young footballers, was caused by a peak in the electricity supply.

A fire at the youth training center of the Brazilian football club Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro killed ten people. Three people have been injured.

The death toll due to a landslide in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro has risen to fourteen. On Sunday morning four bodies were recovered, reported the newspaper O Globo.

At a landslide in a suburb of the Brazilian metropolis Rio de Janeiro, at least ten people were killed. On pictures you can see how the ground was beaten away a few meters.

Some 147 million Brazilian voters may decide on Sunday who will lead the country in the coming years. The conservative populist Jair Bolsonaro takes the lead in the polls. His followers see him as an outsider who can go through a corrupt system with the broom.

Approximately 147 million Brazilians can choose the new president on Sunday and polls indicate a great victory for the right wing populist and ex-military Jair Bolsonaro. His opponent of the left-wing PT (Workers' Party), Fernando Haddad (55), had to do so in recent polls with the support of 43 percent of the respondents. The rest supported the 63-year-old Bolsonaro who was seriously injured by an assassination attempt in September. He only campaigned in the background.

The stabbed Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro left the Einstein hospital in São Paulo after 23 days. That is what Brazilian media report. According to a report in the daily newspaper O Globo, the extreme right-wing ex-soldier wanted to fly to Río de Janeiro on Saturday, where he lives.

A large fire destroyed a large part of the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. The museum was no longer open when the fire started and according to reports there were no casualties.

The Brazilian police have the 'plastic surgeon' Dr. Bumbum arrested. He was wanted in connection with the death of one of his patients who had his buttocks enlarged in his apartment. The police in Rio de Janeiro announced the arrest of Denis Cesar Barros Furtado, who is a well-known personality in Brazil, on Twitter. His mother has also been arrested, reports the newspaper O Globo.

A Brazilian plastic surgeon, known as Dr Bumbum, is on the run after a woman died during an operation to increase her buttocks. The 45-year-old Denis Furtado, who is regularly seen on Brazilian television, gave Lilian Calixto (46) injections that went wrong.

A Brazilian court sentenced the former businessman and billionaire Eike Batista to thirty years in prison for bribery. The former mining and oil magnate has, according to the court, the then governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, converted 15.5 million euro bribes paid.

Shell has acquired the rights for the exploration of another four offshore fields in Brazil. With this, the oil and gas company extends its presence to eighteen deep water fields in Brazil.

A controversial 'military intervention' in Rio divides Brazil to the bone. For the first time since the dictatorship, from 1964 to 1985, the army wields the scepter over the failing police for the next ten months. While leftist intellectuals mention a 'coup', on the right the intervention does not go far enough.

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.

The Brazilian army is trying to maintain public order in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The state is slightly larger than our country and has almost as many inhabitants.

A hard-driving car was ridden in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on hikers who were present in large numbers on the footpath of the famous Copacabana. An eight-month-old baby did not survive the incident. At least 15 people were also injured so badly that they had to go to the hospital.

The infamous commando unit of the police in Rio de Janeiro (BOPE) has propagated the Christmas message in a special way. An armed Santa wanted the residents of the Brazilian metropolis a 'Merry Christmas.' In addition to a white beard and red suit, the disguised agent also wore a bulletproof vest and an automatic rifle.

The police in Rio de Janeiro shot a Spanish tourist when she did not stop a police barrier with her car in a slum area.

Google is going to help car drivers find a car park. The tech giant has rolled out a new version of Google Maps containing two new features.

In northern Brazil a ship has sunk with seventy people aboard. Ten bodies were found, according to the authorities. 25 people managed to reach the sandy banks of the Xingu River. Another 35 people are missing.

A boat of about seventy people aboard shipwrecked on the Xingu River in northern Brazil. Authorities from the state of Para reported Wednesday that twenty suspects have been able to save.

Like every year, UNESCO, the UN's cultural subdivision, has again selected this year from the numerous applications for World Heritage status. Seventeen places last week received the coveted status, including the Palestinian city of Hebron, to the great horror of the Israelis who believe that the city is more in Jewish history than in Islamic. Election often means that the place can expect a lot of tourists, even though some places are unsuitable for this, for example, nature reserve.

Justice in Brazil has issued arrest warrant for 95 police officers in Rio de Janeiro who would have provided weapons to drug gangs. They would also have tipped the gangs about police operations.

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.

Brazilian businessman Eike Batista is awaiting the remaining period of his trial at home. The Supreme Court in Brazil ruled Friday that Batista, who has been in forearm since January, should be released.

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.

At a large carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro has a driver of a vehicle, part of the procession, the power lost over the wheel and crashed into the audience. There were at least four wounded. A man was crushed between a gate and the heavy car.

The lingering recession hangs this year as a shadow over the Carnival celebrations. As some fifty municipalities throughout the country have canceled the whole party, because money for more pressing matters need such as a new ambulance, Brazilian media reported.

Thousands of spectators, athletes and cheers have in Rio de Janeiro given way to silence and decay. The site, where last year a summer Olympics were held, is abandoned, the lawns are discolored and the pools filled with dirty water.