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Rio’s iconic Copacabana Palace celebrates 100 years of glamour
A picture taken on Sept 2, 2021 shows a work of Brazilian artist Jaider Esbell during the press day ahead of the opening of the 34th Biennale of Sao Paulo at Ibirapuera park in Sao Paulo. — AFP photos

Sao Paulo art fest gives voice to resistance in times of darkness
Unemployment has soared in Brazil due to the coronavirus pandemic.— AFP

Brazil economy contracts 0.1% in Q2
Migrants from Ecuador, arriving illegally from Mexico to the US to seek asylum, disembark from an inflatable boat after crossing the Rio Grande river before turning themselves over to border patrol agents at the border city of Roma on Monday.-AFPn

US border agents, traffickers and migrants mix on busy Rio Grande
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 15, 2020 a performer showers revellers with glitter in a street party during the annual 'Ceu Na Terra bloco', in the run up to Rio's carnival, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. - Revelers hoping to escape the coronavirus doldrums at Rio de Janeiro's world-famous carnival got more bad news on September 25, 2020 as organizers indefinitely postponed the city's epic street parties, a day after the official parades were scrapped. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)

Rio scraps carnival street parties, along with parades
Partial view of the Monument to the Bandeiras -representing settling expeditions in which indigenous people were killed and enslaved in the colonial times-, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 16, 2020. - Following US antiracist protests, which prompted the removal of monuments with figures related to slavery and colonialism, Erica Malunguinho, the first transgender representative in Sao Paulo's Legislative Assembly, proposed the creation of a commission to revise monuments, names of avenues, schools and public buildings of the highest populated state in Brazil. (Photo by FERNANDO MARRON / AFP)

Brazil's Black rights movement grapples with 'hostile official'
TABATINGA, Brazil: An indigenous girl of the Ticuna ethnic group receives medical assistance at a health post in Umariacu village in Amazonas state on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic. — AFP

WHO warns world in ‘new and dangerous phase’ of pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO: Health professionals check a patient infected with COVID-19 at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Doctor Ernesto Che Guevara Public Hospital in Marica, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. —AFP

Overworked, underpaid Brazil nurses risk lives to care for patients
MANAUS: Aerial view of the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery where COVID-19 victims are buried daily, in the neighbourhood of Taruma, in Manaus, Brazil during the novel coronavirus pandemic. — AFP

Record deaths in Brazil and Mexico spur defense efforts
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KUWAIT: Aid officials pose before a plane carrying relief supplies for Sudan on April 23, 2024. - KUNA
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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is welcomed and honored by Jordanian King Abdullah II during a state visit on April 23, 2024. – KUNA photos
Jordan honors Amir on state visit