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SAO PAULO - Dozens of armed drug gang members have been setting up roadblocks and robbing drivers en masse in recent days in the Rio de Janeiro area, prompting the firing of 19 police battalion leaders in the city that will host the 2016 Olympics.
SAO PAULO - Police say they have caught a Roman Catholic priest who disappeared after he was convicted of sexually abusing young girls in southern Brazil.
SAO PAULO - To understand why Brazilian presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff is so popular despite being virtually unknown a few months back, you need only to enter the Paraisopolis slum.
SAO PAULO - To understand why Brazilian presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff is so popular despite being virtually unknown a few months back, you need only to enter the Paraisopolis slum.
SAO PAULO - A Brazilian court says it has convicted a 73-year-old man of killing his wife with a sledgehammer on Christmas Day five years ago because he believed she had cheated on him and wanted to spend all his money.
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