Saturday, November 16, 2024

Brazil enjoys fun in the sun as COVID-19 deaths top 200,000

SAO PAULO (AP) — The night before New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of revelers clad in their bathing suits crowded onto the iconic Ipanema beach to have some seaside drinks. It was one of many open-air parties occurring along Brazil’s vast coastline since the summer heat set …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Brazil's pandemic deaths top 200,000 amid a return to fun

SAO PAULO (AP) — The night before New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of revelers clad in their bathing suits crowded onto the iconic Ipanema beach to have some seaside drinks. It was one of many open-air parties occurring along Brazil’s vast coastline since the summer heat set …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Brazil's pandemic deaths top 200,000 amid a return to fun

SAO PAULO (AP) — The night before New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of revelers clad in their bathing suits crowded onto the iconic Ipanema beach to have some seaside drinks. It was one of many open-air parties occurring along Brazil’s vast coastline since the summer heat set …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Brazil enjoys fun in the sun as COVID-19 deaths top 200,000

SAO PAULO (AP) — The night before New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of revelers clad in their bathing suits crowded onto the iconic Ipanema beach to have some seaside drinks. It was one of many open-air parties occurring along Brazil’s vast coastline since the summer heat set …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Brazil suspends syringe purchase effort as vaccination lags

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday his administration is suspending an effort to buy hundreds of millions of syringes just as the country is preparing to launch a nationwide vaccination campaign against COVID-19.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Bolsonaro's tough 2021 balance between ideology, pragmatism

BRASILIA (AP) — Brazil’s pugnacious president, Jair Bolsonaro, survived 2020 in surprisingly good shape personally and politically, with buoyant popularity ratings despite his own bout of COVID-19 and a broader pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 of his countrymen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Bolsonaro's tough 2021 balance between ideology, pragmatism

BRASILIA (AP) — Brazil’s pugnacious president, Jair Bolsonaro, survived 2020 in surprisingly good shape personally and politically, with buoyant popularity ratings despite his own bout of COVID-19 and a broader pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 of his countrymen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Bolsonaro's tough 2021 balance between ideology, pragmatism

BRASILIA (AP) — Brazil’s pugnacious president, Jair Bolsonaro, survived 2020 in surprisingly good shape personally and politically, with buoyant popularity ratings despite his own bout of COVID-19 and a broader pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 of his countrymen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Bolsonaro's tough 2021 balance between ideology, pragmatism

BRASILIA (AP) — Brazil’s pugnacious president, Jair Bolsonaro, survived 2020 in surprisingly good shape personally and politically, with buoyant popularity ratings despite his own bout of COVID-19 and a broader pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 of his countrymen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Brazil scrambles to approve virus vaccine as pressure mounts

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil, a nation proud of its role as a regional leader in science, technology and medicine, finds itself falling behind its neighbors in the global race for immunization against a pandemic that has already killed nearly 200,000 of its people.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Brazil scrambles to approve virus vaccine as pressure mounts

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil, a nation proud of its role as a regional leader in science, technology and medicine, finds itself falling behind its neighbors in the global race for immunization against a pandemic that has already killed nearly 200,000 of its people.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Boeing 737 Max back in air 2 years after grounded by crashes

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Commercial flights with Boeing 737 Max jetliners resumed Wednesday for the first time since they were grounded worldwide following two deadly accidents nearly two years ago.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Boeing 737 Max back in air 2 years after grounded by crashes

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Commercial flights with Boeing 737 Max jetliners resumed Wednesday for the first time since they were grounded worldwide following two deadly accidents nearly two years ago.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Like every Sunday, Brazilian Pastor Silas Malafaia took the stage of his Pentecostal temple in a middle-class Rio de Janeiro neighborhood. But this week, he wore a T-shirt instead of a blazer and, behind the three cameras broadcasting to his legion of YouTube followers, were …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Like every Sunday, Brazilian Pastor Silas Malafaia took the stage of his Pentecostal temple in a middle-class Rio de Janeiro neighborhood. But this week, he wore a T-shirt instead of a blazer and, behind the three cameras broadcasting to his legion of YouTube followers, were …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Like every Sunday, Brazilian Pastor Silas Malafaia took the stage of his Pentecostal temple in a middle-class Rio de Janeiro neighborhood. But this week, he wore a T-shirt instead of a blazer and, behind the three cameras broadcasting to his legion of YouTube followers, were …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Brazil's Bolsonaro strives to regain leadership amid virus

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After questioning the seriousness of COVID-19, defying his own health ministry's recommendations and denouncing a “certain hysteria,” Brazil's president is now projecting himself as leading the nation's response to the coronavirus crisis in what has become one of the biggest challenges to his presidency.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Venezuela on agenda for Trump's meeting with Brazil's leader

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump would not commit Saturday to continue holding off on hitting Brazil with tariffs on imports of its aluminum and steel, saying “I don't make any promises.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Venezuela on agenda for Trump's meeting with Brazil's leader

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump would not commit Saturday to continue holding off on hitting Brazil with tariffs on imports of its aluminum and steel, saying “I don't make any promises.”
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO