Special Brazil troops to guard Pan Am games in Rio
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Troops from a special national security force will guard the streets of crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro during next month's Pan American Games rather than fight drug gangs in the slums, the mayor said on Tuesday.
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Mexico's defense will be bolstered for tomorrow night's game against Brazil at Gillette Stadium. Barcelona's Rafa Marquez arrived in Boston yesterday, a late addition to the roster,
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Brazil&#39;s coach Wanderley Luxemburgo gives instructions to his players during a training session of Brazil&#39;s national soccer team in Foz do Iguazu, Brazil, in this Thursday, July 8, 1999 file photo.
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By Axel Bugge BRASILIA, Brazil  - Newly surfaced photographs ofa victim of Brazil's 1964-85 military rule have put thegovernment in a quandary -- how to avoid riling the armedforces while satisfying rights groups' demands for answersabout the country's "Dirty War."
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Brazilâs national amateur team hopes that a strong performance in the Pan American Games can help put baseball on the map in a country where the most popular sport by far is soccer.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powellsaid Tuesday that Brazil will be an &quot;important candidate&quot; for new permanent members of the United Nations Security Council should the council be expanded.
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Brazilâs star players Ronaldinho, Kaka and Robinho were picked yesterday for the 22-man roster for games next month in the United States. Brazil, the South American champion, will play the United States on Sept. 9 in Chicago and Mexico three days later in Foxborough, Mass.
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Authorities beefed up security at airports across Brazil on Thursday to protect airline workers from fist-waving passengers angered by flight delays, the latest problem to hit the country's aviation system.
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WASHINGTON  - Washington is likely to help Brazilin its plan to shoot down planes suspected of smuggling drugsafter determining it has enough safeguards to preventaccidental killings, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Greece&#39;s defense minister says his country&#39;s security preparations for the Athens Olympics have been so successful that it is now in a position to advise China, the host of the 2008 Summer Games, on how to avoid terrorist attacks. But the minister says ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Diogo Silva gave Brazil its first gold medal of the Panamerican Games on Sunday, but the celebration was quickly eclipsed as the soccer-mad country turned its attention to victory at the Copa America.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge encouraged Brazil's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics on Thursday despite Rio staging the most expensive Panamerican Games in history.
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Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira is more worried about playing rank outsiders Venezuela than the likes of Germany or Argentina.
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the second UN peacekeeper to be shot in Haiti over the weekend. On Saturday a Brazilian was hurt in the capital
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As the international voting to name the new seven wonders of the world draws to a close, Brazilians are doing their part to see Rio's famous Christ statue on the list.
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Brazil has agreed in principle to let the U.N. atomic watchdog agency see parts of equipment to enrich uranium, diplomats said Wednesday. Such a deal would resolve months of dispute over access to the technology that can be used to build nuclear weapons.
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With Nene back in the fold, Brazil is poised to give Team USA a tough game on Sunday at the FIBA Americas Championship.