2011年3月8日星期二

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazilian soccer stars beat Chechnya's team 6-4 (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 11:42 AM PST

Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri, known as Dunga, left, arrives in Grozny, Chechen capital Tuesday, March 8, 2011.  Some of Brazil's biggest soccer stars of the past arrived Tuesday in Chechnya for a friendly game against a team to be led on the pitch by Ramzan Kadyrov, the local strongman of the blood-soaked Russian region. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Brazilian soccer legends took a 6-4 win Tuesday over a team led by Chechnya's strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, who was still the star of the friendly match played in the stadium where his father was killed in a terrorist bombing.


Police occupation allows Carnival into Rio slums (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:00 AM PST

A float from the Uniao da Ilha samba school parades through the Sambadrome during carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Residents of Rio's Formiga shantytown celebrated their first Carnival since police pushed out drug gangs by dancing and singing the praises of law enforcement in an odd twist to festivities usually known for irreverence and uninhibited excess.


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