Float crashes, injuring 20 people at Rio's Carnival parade
A float crashes during Rio de Janeiro's world famous Carnival parade and injures eight people, including at least three people reported in serious condition, but organizers proceed with the show...
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Brazil's Carnival revelers channel anger against president
The exuberant, sassy celebration of Carnival is giving Brazil's battered leftists a stage to vent their frustrations after a year that saw their movement pushed out of power...
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AP Explains: Rio's Carnival, a high-stakes samba parade
Rio de Janeiro's Carnival parade is world famous for the dancing, the all-but-naked bodies and the magnificent floats down the sambadrome on Avenida Marques de Sapucai...
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Brazil's Carnival begins with parades, parties but no mayor
Revelers all over Brazil began Carnival celebrations after an odd opening ceremony in Rio marked by the absence of the city's evangelical mayor...
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Brazil's sexy Carnival puts Pentecostal mayor in tight spot
Rio de Janeiro's Carnival is known for its heavy partying and carnal delights, and that puts the Brazilian city's Pentecostal mayor in a tight spot...
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Even at anything-goes Carnival, these lyrics raise eyebrows
The typical view of Carnival in Brazil is anything goes, with no headdress too big, no outfit too small, no song too ribald, but this year some organizers of the world's best known party are drawing t...
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Rio Carnival revelers hunt for bargains amid economic crisis
Rio de Janeiro's world famous Carnival starts Friday and Brazil's deep recession and worries about security are casting a shadow on the big bash...
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It's Carnival in Rio and Nishikori might take a look
Kei Nishikori and the Rio Open will be upstaged this week...
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Man critically injured by shark on Great Barrier Reef
A 26-year-old man has been critically injured by a shark while spear fishing on Australia's Great Barrier Reef...
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