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Brazil promotes safe sex at Carnival, handing out condoms
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's Health Ministry is using fake Tinder profiles and massive condom giveaways to promote safe sex during the country's no-holds-barred Carnival celebrations.
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Brazil: Samba group funding row sparks Carnival controversy
RIO DE JANEIRO - Allegations that a Rio de Janeiro samba group received funding from one of Africa's most criticized governments have sparked controversy on the eve of Brazil's Carnival celebrations.
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Rio's Carnival kicks off; city gears up for 5 days of fun
RIO DE JANEIRO - The five days of over-the-top parades and raucous, alcohol-soaked street parties that make up Rio de Janeiro's world-famous Carnival celebrations kicked off Friday amid a recent...
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Rio's Carnival kicks off; city gears up for 5 days of fun
RIO DE JANEIRO - The five days of over-the-top parades and raucous, alcohol-soaked street parties that make up Rio de Janeiro's world-famous Carnival celebrations kicked off Friday amid a recent...
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Party Animals: Dogs also celebrate Carnival in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO - At one Carnival street party in Rio de Janeiro, the revelers weren't as skilled at dancing samba as they were at wagging their tails.
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Carnival parade in Germany canceled because of terror threat
BERLIN - Police in the German city of Braunschweig cancelled a popular Carnival street parade on Sunday because of fears of an imminent Islamist terror attack.
View ArticleAmerican youth seriously gored by bull in Spain
MADRID - An American youth is recovering in the intensive-care unit of a hospital in western Salamanca after being savagely gored during a bullfighting festival celebrating Carnival, officials said...
View ArticleForeigners in Rio take crash course in samba for Carnival
RIO DE JANEIRO - There is a self-deprecating phrase Brazilians with poor dancing skills use to explain their awkwardness at the parades during Carnival: I samba like a foreigner.
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American youth seriously gored by bull in Spain
MADRID - An American youth is recovering in the intensive-care unit of a hospital in western Salamanca after being savagely gored during a bullfighting festival celebrating Carnival, officials said...
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Carnival parades begin at Rio's Sambadrome, despite deluge
RIO DE JANEIRO - The show went on Sunday at the world's most-celebrated Carnival parades, despite a tropical deluge that soaked thousands of feather-clad dancers, wildly costumed musicians and masses...
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Revelers flock to carnival parades in western Germany
BERLIN - Revelers have filled the streets in western Germany for annual carnival parades, complete with floats that allude to recent terrorist attacks and the showdown over Greece's debt.
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Brazil's have-nots take in Carnival parades from afar
RIO DE JANEIRO - Neuza Maria Terreira loves Carnival so much that neither the pouring rain nor the stench of a sewage-filled canal can keep her from getting as close as possible to Rio de Janeiro's...
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Battling racism theme of some Rio Carnival parades
RIO DE JANEIRO - Racial pride and the fight against racism in Brazil were the themes of samba group presentations and street parties on Monday as Rio de Janeiro's parades entered their second night of...
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Rio samba school goes green in reused, recycled costumes
RIO DE JANEIRO - With their formations of spandex-clad samba dancers, fruit-topped drummers in Carmen Miranda headgear and legions of ladies swathed in reams of lace, the Petizes da Penha samba group...
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Float accident at Haiti Carnival parade kills at least 16
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - At least 16 people were killed early Tuesday in the Haitian capital after a man on top of a musical group's Carnival float was shocked by high-voltage wires above the street,...
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Beija-Flor wins hotly contested Rio Carnival parade contest
RIO DE JANEIRO - The Beija-Flor samba group was declared the champion of Rio de Janeiro's hotly contested Carnival parade competition Wednesday.
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Burned singer describes deadly Haiti Carnival accident
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A Haitian singer who was burned by a high-voltage wire while atop a float during a Carnival parade said Wednesday that an unexpected shift forward apparently set off the...
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Thousands attend funeral in Haiti for 17 Carnival victims
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Thousands of people streamed into Haiti's main public park on Saturday to honor the 17 victims who died in an accident involving a Carnival float.
View Article2013 State Fair mishap is impetus for NC House bill
RALEIGH, North Carolina - Maximum fines for carnival ride accidents similar to the one at the 2013 North Carolina State Fair that injured several people could go up by five or ten times in legislation...
View ArticleColorado carnival morphs into mob scene; crowd fights police
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - Three teens have been arrested after a carnival turned sour and police struggled to control a hostile crowd of more than 150 people.
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