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Rio de Janeiro

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Affirmative action helps students thrive at universities across Brazil
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A Brazilian navy soldier patrols Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 30, 2017
Conflict
A year after the Rio Olympics, gunfights continue and troops patrol the streets
Paralympic rowers train on the Charles River.
Sports
US rowers aim for gold in the Rio Paralympics
March against house speaker Eduardo Cunha's abortion bill on International Day to End Violence Against Women in Rio de Janeiro
Justice
A mother’s fight for abortion rights in evangelical Brazil
Residents observe as policemen take up position near an area where two men were found dead on top of the Sao Carlos slums complex in Rio de Janeiro May 15, 2015.
Justice
Rio de Janeiro’s pacification program slips back to tactics from its bloody ‘War on Drugs’
Biologist Mario Moscatelli along the shores of Guanabara Bay in Rio
Environment
This ‘Star Wars rebel’ biologist isn’t giving up on cleaning Rio’s polluted bay
Activists put banner on pedestrian bridge in Rio
Justice
Brazil’s new idea to fight crime: Sentence teens to adult jails
The Other Side of the World Cup
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Funk Na Caixa’s “Rasterinha”
An anti-World Cup "Roman" takes a breather after hours of singing and dancing at a Rio carnival party.
Global Politics
At Rio’s carnival, as long as you’re dancing, why not make it a protest
An anti-World Cup "Roman" takes a breather after hours of singing and dancing at a Rio carnival party.
Global Politics
At Rio’s carnival, as long as you’re dancing, why not make it a protest
Afropop Premiere: Orquestra Imperial: “Cair Na Folia”