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A court in Brazil sentences two former Military Police officers to 59 and 78 years in prison respectively for the assassination of Rio de Janeiro city councilor and human rights activist Marielle Franco in 2018.
2024-10-31

A fire at Flamengo sports club's youth training camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, leaves ten people dead and three injured.
2019-02-8

Brazilian politician and outspoken police critic Marielle Franco is killed along with her driver in a drive-by shooting in Rio de Janeiro.
2018-03-14

More than 150 prominent scientists worldwide send a letter to World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan calling for the postponement or relocation of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics because of the widening Zika virus outbreak in Brazil, despite U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden's statement yesterday that "there is no public health reason to cancel or delay the Olympics."
2016-05-27

At least two people are killed after an oceanfront stretch of an elevated bike lane in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, collapses when it was hit by a strong wave. Two other people were rescued alive, while another may be missing. The bike lane was among the projects built in preparation for the 2016 Summer Olympics. No Olympic event will be held on the path.
2016-04-21

Alleged Brazil serial killer, Sailson Jose das Gracas, confesses to 42 murders in Rio de Janeiro.
2014-12-11

Three men are arrested for allegedly raping and robbing a foreign tourist on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, amid concerns about security before the country hosts 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
2013-04-2

In Brazil, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, speaks to a group of World Youth Day delegates from 75 countries and 40 movements. He hopes World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro will have a lasting effect on the hundreds of thousands of young people slated to attend.
2012-12-3

About eighty tons of dead fish are discovered and removed in a lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, likely due to localized ocean anoxia and algal blooms.
2010-02-28