Porto Alegre, Brazil News

Pioneers and masters of the death metal genre, American band Cannibal Corpse will finally bring their brutal and controversial sound to Rio on Thursday, June 20th as they play Lapa's Circo Voador along with the Brazilian metal band Gangrena Gasosa and opening act Forceps.

Demonstrators gesture next to a burning barricade during a protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday June 17, 2013.

As many as 100,000 protesters took to the streets of both SA o Paulo and Rio last night, as well as tens of thousands in other cities in Brazil - including Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Curitiba and Porto Alegre - as part of the widespread protests.

Brazilians went to the streets to protest against the rising costs of public transportation and overpriced expenditures for the cost of staging the 2014 World Cup.

As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption.

Youths clashed with police in central Rio as more than 200,000 people marched in major Brazilian cities to protest against billions of dollars spent on the Confederation Cup and higher public transport costs.

The waves of protests against a bus fare increase in SA o Paulo is moving beyond the city limits and becoming a national movement.

This marks the latest crescendo in weeks of escalating protests, touched off by a March spike in Porto Alegre bus fares that sent protesters into the streets .

So Paulo has seen a fourth night of protests after an increase in bus and subway fares, and the BBC reports that things are starting to get violent .

Small but violent protests in several Brazilian cities this week have added to a sense of growing unrest in Brazil at a time when inflation, crime and President Dilma Rousseff's popularity are all taking a turn for the worse.

One woman's chronicle of the death and suffering in Wuli has shed light on the grim plight of the Zhejiang 'cancer village', writes Hazel Knowles.

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The SeleA A o will look to have a breakthrough on the win column tomorrow afternoon as they host France tomorrow afternoon in Porto Alegre.

Atltico Mineiro's striker J has been called up to replace Internacional's player Leandro Damio, who got injured in training today.

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In the dawn of May 29th the trees of the city called Porto Alegre were cut by the men from the city hall.

In the city of "Porto Alegre" in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, one of the cities that will cediar the World Cup 2014, the population is against the cutting of trees for duplication of access roads unneeded.

There is a petition out, in the Brazilian federal state of Bahia, in support of the journalist Emiliano JosA©. Accused of slander by the preacher A tila BrandA o for reporting the preach involvement with torture against students during the military dictatorship in Brazil, JosA© published a text in the press in February 2013 and in his ... (more)

SlutWalk Brazil protests on the streets of Brazilian federal state capitals such as SA o Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife, FlorianA3polis, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, BelA©m, Rio de Janeiro and VitA3ria, and the Federal District, this weekend.

Grmio forward Klber may be about to leave the Porto Alegre club for Italian giants Lazio, according to Zero Hora , despite his failure to become a regular member of coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo's first team.