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Santa Claus joins sharks for a holiday swim at a Rio de Janeiro aquarium
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Santa Claus has arrived in Rio de Janeiro — under water. Starting on Saturday, he’ll be spotted at AquaRio Marine Aquarium swimming with sharks during their daily fish feeding sessions as part of the city’s Christmas festivities. ...
A paraplegic man in Brazil is lifted into the clouds on one of Rio de Janeiro's hardest trails
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It’s perhaps Rio de Janeiro’s hardest trail, featuring one particularly daunting section requiring a perilous scramble that can cause hikers to freeze up with fright. But this week, Ezequiel da Luz, a 40-year-old paraplegic, traversed jungle and...
These Brazilian caramel-colored stray dogs were long overlooked. Now, they're having a major moment
SAO PAULO (AP) — For decades, they have scrounged for food on streets across the country — undesired, abandoned and overlooked. But today, the caramel-colored mutts of Brazil are having a major moment. The “vira-lata caramelo” (literally: caramel trashcan-tipper) is being...
Not quite the 'Girl from Ipanema', a fur seal's rare appearance on Rio's famous beach turns heads
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Short, and dark, and young, and tired, the seal on Ipanema was basking ... The fur seal on Rio de Janeiro’s iconic beach was turning heads of locals and tourists alike Wednesday morning — though not for the same reasons as the famous "Girl from Ipanema." ...
Brazilian Santa swaps sleigh for Jet Ski to deliver toys — and joy — to disabled children in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Santa Claus is coming to town ... on a Jet Ski. Dozens of children with disability gathered on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach on Tuesday to receive presents — and joy — from the white-bearded man himself, a joint effort by the city's firefighters and...
An Argentine tourist is shot in head in Rio after mistakenly driving into low-income community
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An Argentine tourist was shot in the head and chest Thursday in Rio de Janeiro after he mistakenly drove his car into a low-income community, police said. He was reportedly using a GPS device to make his way to the Christ the Redeemer statue. Gastón Fernando...
Brazil’s President Lula to undergo a new procedure after initial surgery for brain bleed
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will undergo a new procedure on Thursday following up on an unplanned surgery earlier this week for a brain bleed, doctors said. The minimally invasive procedure aims to stop persistent bleeding on the surface of...
Doctors say Brazil's Lula is recovering after surgery for a brain bleed
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is recovering in an intensive care unit after undergoing unplanned surgery for a brain bleed, doctors said Tuesday. The procedure was performed after the 79-year-old leftist leader suffered complications resulting...
Double Olympic champ Alistair Brownlee retires from triathlon
LONDON (AP) — Double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee announced his retirement from triathlon at the age of 36 on Thursday. Brownlee won gold medals in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016, with his younger brother, Jonny, making the podium on both occasions. The siblings'...
Argentina's Milei pivots to pragmatism in first talks with China's Xi after shaking up the G20
LA PAZ, Boliva (AP) — Last year, then-presidential candidate Javier Milei declared Argentina would not “make deals with communists” in China or Brazil, calling their leaders “murderers” and “thieves” in a bid to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump and other global far-right...
