2011年1月6日星期四

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Heavy floods leave at least 35 dead in Brazil (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:44 AM PST

AP - Brazilian authorities say a couple and their two young daughters have died in a mudslide in Sao Paulo state, bringing the death toll from heavy flooding to at least 35 people. More than 30,000 people across the country have been forced out of their homes.

Police occupy 3 slums in ongoing security action (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:43 AM PST

Police patrol during an operation to take control of the Morro Sao Joao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday Jan. 6, 2011.  Rio de Janeiro's police say they've taken over three adjacent slums as part of an ongoing program to increase security and clamp down on drug trafficking. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Rio de Janeiro's police say they've taken over three adjacent slums as part of an ongoing program to increase security and clamp down on drug trafficking.


For Rio slum residents, police a mixed blessing (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:12 AM PST

Costumers have their hair cut at the Ze do Carmo barbershop at the Santa Marta slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. From his barbershop carved into the steep flank of the hillside slum where he grew up, Jose do Carmo used to cut the hair of the neighborhood's drug dealers and of the addicts who walked up the narrow alleyways for a fix and stayed for the $5 trims. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - At his barbershop carved into the steep flank of a Rio hillside slum, Jose do Carmo dos Santos used to cut the hair of the neighborhood's drug dealers and of the addicts who walked up the narrow alleyways for a fix and stuck around for the $5 trims.


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