Rio de Janeiro, Brazil News

Protestors are reflected on the glass of a building, left, as they march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 17, 2013.

The new flight will bring the weekly total on the Rio de Janeiro route to seven frequencies, adding an extra 42 metric tons of capacity per week.

Large-scale protests have engulfed Turkey and Brazil, which are thousands of miles apart, but share some traits such as being new democracies with a growing middle class.

Scattered street demonstrations popped up around Brazil early Wednesday as protesters continued their collective cry against the low-quality public services they receive in exchange for high taxes and high prices.

Demonstrators attempt to take the Tiradentes Palace -- Rio de Janeiro's Legislative Assembly building-- during a protest in Rio de Janeiro, on June 17, 2013.

Demonstrators run past burning garbage during protests against poor public services, police violence and government corruption in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Politicians warned of being 'on wrong side of history' as anger swells about state of nation and World Cup extravagance Brazilians gather at the city hall in SA o Paulo as part of widespread protests about high costs, poor services and spending on the World Cup.

Thousands of demonstrators flooded a square in Brazil's economic hub, Sao Paulo, on Tuesday evening for the latest in a historic wave of protests against the shoddy state of public transit, schools and other public services in this booming South American giant.

Brazil, the world's second-largest producer of iron ore, unveiled a long-awaited bill to reform the country's 46-year-old mining code on Tuesday, proposing royalties of up to 4 percent, double the current rate.

On Saturday, thousands of Brazilian fans at the Estadio Nacional Mane Garrincha booed and heckled FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Brazilian president Dilma Roussef during the opening ceremony of the Confederations Cup.

Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship broke out across this continent-sized country, with more expected Tuesday, protests uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy tax burden.

Last night, reports O Globo , more than 100,000 protesters filled the streets of Rio de Janeiro, while an additional 65,000 hit the streets of SA o Paulo.

For the demonstrators who have transformed streets in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and beyond into protest battlegrounds, it isn't so much that bus fares went up from 3.00 to 3.20 reais .

ESPN is beginning to unveil its plans for next summer's World Cup, the final time the network will have the rights to the quadrennial tournament.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a growing protest that is tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption.

This marks the latest crescendo in weeks of escalating protests, touched off by a March spike in Porto Alegre bus fares that sent protesters into the streets .

A protestor waits to the police action in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday June 16, 2013.

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Thirty-nine people were injured and 30 others detained in clashes as around a thousand Brazilians demonstrated outside the national stadium in the capital, Brasilia.

Rio de Janeiro, June 17: The Nigerian soccer team arrived in Brazil, three days behind schedule and a day before it opens its Confederations Cup football campaign against Tahiti.