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Wednesday 2 December 2020
Thomas Barr also discusses adjusting to lockdown and current drug-testing procedures.
A lower court had ordered that the film be pulled to calm anger over the show.
The man boarded a bus in Rio de Janeiro earlier today.
While recognising that he has been far from his best in Brazil, the Barcelona star believes the grounds-keeping has also been sub-par.
‘There was state assistance in Sao Paulo, with a huge debt. Keeping F1 there was no longer viable,’ said President Jair Bolsonaro today.
The cause was not immediately known.
Around 500 protesters formed a human chain around the museum’s still-smoldering remains.
The fire “spread very quickly”, officials said.
A new documentary film tells the inexplicable story of Kaiser – a Brazilian conman and the greatest player never to have played the game.
Denis Cesar Barros Furtado went on the run when one of his female patients died after he gave her injections to enlarge her buttocks.
Mario Goetze looked poised to become “the German Messi”.
The driver has told investigators he suffered a seizure.
“I’ve never seen one so close, I would have liked to have had the chance to save it,” said one local resident.
Prosecutor Fabiana Schenider said, “We are showing that Brazil is no longer a paradise for corrupt people, for thieves.”
The Brazilian government has sent almost 10,000 troops to help the police in Rio de Janeiro state.
She was hospitalised due to her injuries
Temer’s aides say they are confident he has sufficient support in Congress to get the charges thrown out.
Three were seriously injured, including a woman news photographer who had a leg badly crushed.
The title unification bout will take place at UFC 212 on 3 June in Rio de Janeiro.
He had been in Brazil for more than four months after his passport was seized by officials.
Mallon was arrested on the eve of the Olympic Games.
The former president of the Olympic Council of Ireland had been detained in Rio de Janeiro for the past four months.
Kevin Mallon may have his back by the end of the week.
Hickey was arrested last August in Brazil.
Severe budget shortfalls have left police scrounging for equipment, fuel and even the most basic hygiene items.
The incident followed a day of intense clashes between police and gang members in the notorious favela.
It is not known who is paying the €410,000 bond.
The report into the governance of the OCI will be published soon.
The expressions of support came at a meeting of European Olympic committees in Minsk, Belarus.
OCI honorary general secretary Dermot Henihan, chief executive Stephen Martin and Rio 2016 chef de mission Kevin Kilty are leaving Brazil.
Deloitte has been put in charge of the task.
He has been in jail since his arrest on 17 August.
Police said they now have a huge amount of information after taking testimony from the two OCI executives.
Former OCI president Pat Hickey, who has been at the notorious Bangu prison in Rio since Thursday, may not now face a judge until later in the week.
The brothers said they haven’t had a chance to let their silver medal win sink in.
The Irish professional golfer, and now Olympian, is not impressed that some of his sport’s best turned down the opportunity to be in Rio this week.
Athletes, coaches, journalists, photographers and a government minister have all fallen victim to thefts.
Brazilian police and media have identified the vice consul at the Russian embassy in Rio as being involved in the incident.
Michael O’Reilly’s road to Rio was never straightforward but Team Ireland didn’t expect to be here.
One of the torch-bearers dropped his pants to moon the crowd in protest at Brazil’s political situation.
THE SHOPS ARE back, festive music is playing and the weather is going to get absolutely Baltic this week. Even though it’s been a strange year, you’d know Christmas is on the way.
But although it’s a time for giving and the shops are open again, the usual scenes of charity fundraisers on the streets will likely be less frequent due to public health concerns.
Many people make a point of putting some money, food or other items away to make a donation to a particular cause around this time of year, and will likely have to go a bit out of their way to do so in 2020.
Are you one of those people? This morning we want to know: Will you be giving to charity this Christmas?
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