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Record flooding turns streets of Brazil’s Porto Alegre into rivers, trapping people in high-rises

But the task is complex in a city with many tall buildings, wide avenues, and some 1.4 million inhabitants. The Sarandi neighbourhood in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Photo: AFP “There is …

Brazil floods kill 57, dozens missing, 70,000 forced from homes

by Walter Watson

Fast-rising water levels in the state of Rio Grande do Sul were straining dams and particularly threatening economically important Porto Alegre, a city of 1.4 million. The Guaiba River, which …

President Lula tells Japan’s Kishida to try Brazilian beef in bid to score export orders

by Walter Watson

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday welcomed Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on his first visit to the country, with the two meeting in the capital of …