RIO DE JANEIRO — It’s still spring in Brazil, but a dangerous heat wave is sweeping across large swathes of the country, forcing Rio de Janeiro’s vendors off the streets due to health alerts and driving up energy demand amid reports of power outages. The institution issued a red alert for the center-west, southeast and parts of the north warning …
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian bishop resigned on Wednesday, less than a week after a video spread on social media that featured someone, purported to be him, masturbating. Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Tomé Ferreira da Silva, who oversaw a diocese in Sao Paulo state, Sao Jose do Rio Preto. Local news network Globo reported in 2018 …
South American players have often reached the heights of European soccer in recent years, and European coaches are now doing the same in South America. He will lead Palmeiras against Santos on Saturday in an all-Brazilian and all-Sao Paulo final at an empty Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. “That is why I crossed the Atlantic to be here, in …