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.
The Brazilian government has also army units mobilized to improve security in Rio de Janeiro in the run-up to the world-famous carnival. In total, 9,000 soldiers are deployed to contain violence, especially now threatening police strikes.
In nearly five days of strike by police in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo, 87 people brought violence to life. Most of those injured in the capital Vitoria, authorities reported Wednesday. Espíritu Santo on the southeast coast is slightly larger than our country and has around four million inhabitants.
Brazilian President Michel Temer Monday army units to Espirito Santo sent to put an end to the chaos. This came about because the police in the small state north of Rio de Janeiro Friday resigned effort to underline its salary demands. The regional government says it is prevented by the ongoing crisis salary increases. There is no money.
Brazilian businessman Eike Batista's Monday arrested immediately after returning to Brazil at the airport in Rio. The sixty Batista was five years ago, the richest man in the country and probably the seventh richest person in the world. Meanwhile, the bulk of his wealth is gone and Batista is suspected of money laundering and bribery. In 2015, Batista even acquired the nickname ' billionaire in the minus '' because he would have been a billion dollar debt.
After zikavirus now concern an outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil, especially in the state of Minas Gerais. The Ministry of Health there has registered in recent weeks, 272 suspected cases of yellow fever, of which 71 were fatal. The authorities have more than 2 million doses of vaccine available to prevent further spread of the disease.
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.
In the northern Brazilian prison where 27 prisoners in riots this weekend to come, again a revolt life. There's a SWAT team present it trying to gain control over the situation.
A gang of criminals in Brazil have robbed a diamond mine. Which reported the news portal G1 Monday, relying on information from the police. More than twenty heavily armed men insisted Sunday the Brauna property in Nordestina, 750 kilometers north of Rio de Janeiro, inside. They opened the safe using explosives.
The Greek ambassador in Brazil is probably murdered. Police found Thursday a corpse in a burnt-out car in the north of the city of Rio de Janeiro and assumes that it is the diplomat.
The goalkeeper Danilo Chapeco Armenian was posthumously named player of the year in Brazil. In online voting Monday under Brazilian football fans Danilo got 48 percent of the vote.
Demonstrators police on Tuesday continued to attack in Rio de Janeiro. A protest against the austerity measures of the Brazilian government of Michel Temer was seriously out of hand when police and demonstrators together caught up in conflict. According to the BBC the protests Tuesday were the most violent so far.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee team does not know whether there will be back in action at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. This year at the Games in Rio de Janeiro took ten refugees along under the Olympic flag. It was the first time that such a team was formed.
2016 was an eventful year, shows once more from the new annual survey of social network Twitter. It contains the most popular trending topics, or topics on the medium most about is spoken. At one place in the Dutch trend list: Brexit.
2016 was an eventful year, shows once more from the new annual survey of social network Twitter. It contains the most popular trending topics, or topics on the medium most about is spoken. At one place in the Dutch trend list: Brexit.
At least four officers were killed when a police helicopter crashed Rio de Janeiro. That happened after a day of heavy fighting between police and alleged criminals in a slum area known as the City of God, reported local media.
The Brazilian government has frozen the bank accounts of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The board of Rio still needs to repay a substantial debt, according to the BBC.
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.
Twitter users have posted 187 million tweets about the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Who viewed a total of 75 million times, according to Twitter.
A hilarious TV moment yesterday at the BBC. At the time presenter Dan Walker from the beach in Rio de Janeiro provides an update of the Olympics, a couple in the background in the sand is very intimate.
The German coach of the canoe slalom, Stefan Henze, Monday deceased to the injuries he suffered last week after a serious accident in a taxi.
A gruesome discovery in the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro. Near the place where the Olympic sailors into action on Sunday found a bone.
US swimmer Ryan Lochte was robbed Saturday night along with three others in Rio De Janeiro. That confirmed the medalist at NBC.
Stolen smartphones, lost passports, injury and a brutal robbery. The Dutch embassy has so far shot 36 times to help Dutch who got into trouble in and around Rio de Janeiro. This concerns both for tourists and athletes themselves.
Brazilian police have arrested on Thursday (local time) two alleged sympathizers of terror group Islamic State (IS). The duo was possible to plan in question to carry out an attack during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The organizers of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro taking action to improve safety. A series of violent incidents over the past week cast a shadow over the international sporting event.
The Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has to leave the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he had drunk Saturday night outside the Olympic village alcohol and only returned early in the morning. But Van Gelder is certainly not the first athlete who comes discredited during the Games. Five high-profile scandals in the games in a row.
It allows spectators at Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro indeed demonstrate freely. The organizing committee, the state government of Rio and the Brazilian government should not deter visitors from peaceful political expression, a Brazilian judge ruled Monday.
