Search results
From religious propaganda to symbol of a nation: The story of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Christ the Redeemer statue atop Corcovado mountain was meant to be an act of religious...
Brazil workers overseeing oil licenses to strike as of June 24, union says
WSAU Wausau· 3 days agoBy Jake Spring and Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Federal employees overseeing oil and gas licenses in Rio
Outraged Brazilian women stage protests against bill to equate late abortions with homicide
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Sao Paulo on Saturday as protests sweep across...
‘They suggested I sell my daughter’: The dark side of global microfinance
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoThe two bank representatives stood for several hours outside Dara’s house. They came from Amret, one...
Archive photos of Brazil mountain do not disprove sea level rise
AFP via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDespite evidence of sea levels rising over the last century, skeptics are sharing archive photos of...
Simone Manuel returns from overtraining syndrome with her eyes on Paris Olympics
WBIR-TV Knoxville· 6 days ago“I don't think any swimmer enjoys that too much.” The first Black female swimmer to capture an...
Gretchen Walsh sets a world record and Katie Ledecky secures her 4th trip to Olympics at U.S. trials
NBC New York· 1 day agoGretchen Walsh set a world record in the women's 100-meter butterfly Saturday night, posting a time...
The Russian Spies Next Door
The Wall Street Journal· 4 hours agoPosing as Argentine immigrants in Slovenia, the quiet married couple were in fact part of Putin’s aggressive effort to seed the West with ‘illegal’...
New European champion runner for Switzerland invited by IOC to rejoin Olympic refugee team for Paris
The News-Times· 4 days agoIf Lobalu chooses to rejoin the team he left five years ago, fueled in part by a dispute over prize...
MLS teams adjust to a summer of soccer without some of the league's biggest names
San Francisco Chronicle· 13 hours agoLionel Messi could miss as many as six games with Inter Miami if Argentina wins its way to the Copa...