zoo animals get icy treats
In September 2024, Vida Livre Institute, a wildlife rescue center, received an unusual call from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden staff. They were sending over two monkeys who were behaving strangely and had to be assessed by the Institute’s veterinarian.
Argentine tourism authorities say that an Argentine tourist who was shot in the head and chest in Rio de Janeiro last month has died.
Brazil moved swiftly to rule Bolsonaro ineligible for office until 2030, a penalty that could be extended by ongoing criminal investigations. In Washington, however, Republicans in the Senate helped acquit Trump in an impeachment trial that would have prevented him from seeking the presidency again.
The institution currently features another Brazilian, Inah Canabarro Lucas, a nun from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul as the oldest living person at 116 years, but Deolira’s family and doctors are confident that she will soon take the religious woman’s title.
Digital gambling could spell the end for a lottery run by criminal gangs that has been a fixture of Brazilian life for decades.
Brazil's newly nominated head of the planned 2025 COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement would cast a shadow over the talks.
Deolira Gliceria Pedro da Silva, a great-grandmother from the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, is eager to be recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest living
It’s easy to fall in love with the Paiva family. Filmmaker Walter Salles makes sure of that in “I’m Still Here.”
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a bill restricting the use of smartphones at school, following a global trend for such limitations
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - January 11, 2025 Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Rio de Janeiro to demand that the former DOI-Codi building, the largest torture center for opponents of the military regime (1964-1985),