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Priced out of Rio's booming favelas, Brazil's poor resort to mass squatting

12 May 2014: The Tufi Community occupying derelict factory is one of many forced out in trend accelerated by World Cup and Olympics
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World Cup 2014: protests break out in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo – video (1min 39sec)
World Cup footballers' faces carved on to watermelons by Brazilian chef – video (1min 01sec)

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Brazil's anti-World Cup protests: which side do you support?

19 May 2014: Brazil has experienced strikes and unrest in the lead-up to the tournament. Live in Brazil? Whether involved in the protests or not, we'd like to hear what you think about the World Cup
From child hunger to obesity: Brazil's new health scourge

Guardian Professional, 19 May 2014: After making huge gains in beating child hunger and undernutrition, civil society and the government in Brazil now have a greater challenge - tackling an obesity epidemic
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Brazil's favelas are in big trouble, despite the World Cup marketing push

18 May 2014: Nicole Froio: Recent police abuse and killings in the favelas have highlighted how the government's so-called security programme is more about PR 49 comments
Eyewitness: Oiapoque, Brazil

Picture, 17 May 2014: Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
Anti-World Cup protests across Brazil

16 May 2014: Latest showing of sour national mood towards tournament in country racked by strikes, crime and anger at wealth disparities
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You want fries with your poverty wages and exploited McDonald's workers?

15 May 2014: Julia Carrie Wong: In addition to carbonated beverages and Big Macs, McDonalds spreads low wages, abusive conditions and union-busting. Now workers across the world are learning how to fight back, together 321 comments
Brazil laundering illegal timber on a 'massive and growing scale'

15 May 2014: Greenpeace investigation uncovers evidence that illegally logged timber is being sold on to buyers in the UK, US, Europe and China
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Video of Rio gunmen firing hundreds of shots in goal celebration goes viral

14 May 2014: Footage may disrupt efforts to reassure visitors to Brazil that the upcoming World Cup will be safe
Romance of World Cup in Brazil is peppered with an air of conflict

14 May 2014: Owen Gibson: With doubts over the stadiums, former striker Romário a leading critic and Fifa's reputation at stake, it could still be the fans who suffer most if the chaos and controversy have an impact 25 comments
Priced out of Rio's booming favelas, Brazil's poor resort to mass squatting

12 May 2014: The Tufi Community occupying derelict factory is one of many forced out in trend accelerated by World Cup and Olympics 41 comments
Radio 2 Eurovision; The Invention of Brazil – review

10 May 2014: Radio 2 sang the praises of Eurovision too loudly, while Misha Glenny cracked Brazil in style, writes Miranda Sawyer
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Malba Tahan: the literary hoaxer who made Brazil love maths

9 May 2014: Alex Bellos: Arab freedom fighter Malba Tahan wrote one of Brazil's most popular books, even though all was not what it seemed
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World Cup 2014: eighth construction worker killed in Brazil

9 May 2014: Mohammad Ali electrocuted at Arena Pantanal amid last-minute rush to finish stadiums before tournament in just over a month
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Rio de Janeiro bus strike disrupts business across city

8 May 2014: Service disruption and related vandalism renews concerns about public order in run up to World Cup tournament
Got, got, got, need: Panini's World Cup sticker factory – in pictures

Gallery (10 pictures), 8 May 2014: With the World Cup around the corner, Reuters photographer Paulo Whitaker has been to Panini's factory in Tambore, an industrial suburb north of São Paulo, where the World Cup 2014 stickers and albums are being produced. Despite the current prevalence of technology, millions of football fans are going old school by taking part in the decades-old pastime of trading stickers

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