Articles tagged with: brazil
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A sexy beer ad featuring Paris Hilton has been pulled from the airwaves in Brazil after consumer complaints and a watchdog agency’s investigation. The controversial campaign featured Hilton in a short black dress preening and rubbing herself with a can of Devassa beer to the delight a gaggle of Pe... read more
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In the end it wasn’t the angry child welfare advocates or the family court judge that hampered seven-year-old samba queen Julia Lira from carrying out her controversial role at the Rio de Janeiro carnival: It was Lira herself. Lira broke down in tears just 10 minutes into last night’s pa... read more
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A Brazilian toddler has been found with some 40 needles inside him, which police say his stepfather inserted during a possible “black magic” ritual.
Police said Roberto Carlos Magalhaes has confessed to sticking the sewing needles into the two-year-old boy, who is in intensive car... read more
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A Brazilian woman whose short, pink dress caused a near riot at a private college and led to her expulsion will be allowed to return to class. The private Bandeirante University backed down Monday on its decision to expel 20-year-old read more
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The Brazilian president, in Copenhagen after some serious politicking to win the 2016 Olympics for Rio de Janeiro, used a certain Chicagoan’s slogan to promote his bid today.
“Yes we can!” Lula told reporters today, dismissing concerns that the developing nation can fund the... read more
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There is growing controversy in Brazil over the arrest of an Italian tourist held after kissing his eight-year-old daughter in public.
Witnesses told police the man allegedly touched the girl in an intimate way.
Under a strict new law partly designed to combat child sex abuse in South ... read more
