China And Brazil Woo Each Other With Soccer Power
Each year Chinese youth teams send members to a Brazilian academy for 10 months of soccer coupled with regular school lessons, including classes in Portuguese.
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Brazilians Go To The Polls As Far-Right Candidate Gains Ground
Brazilians go to the polls to pick their next president in, perhaps, the country's most divisive election ever. The lead candidates are polar opposites on the political spectrum.
Peru's Supreme Court Overturns Pardon Of Former President Alberto Fujimori
The high court overturned a medical pardon for Fujimori on Wednesday. It ordered his return to jail to serve out a sentence for human rights abuses.
Brazil To Go To The Polls Amid A Surge Of The Far Right
Sunday's election in Brazil represents an important gauge of how far to the right voters in Latin America's largest nation are prepared to turn.
News Brief: Brett Kavanaugh, Brazil Election, Nobel Peace Prize
A Senate procedural vote will likely determine the fate of Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh. Brazilians go to the polls Sunday to elect the next president. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced.
BBC Looks Back On Epidemic With Documentary: 'Zika Love Stories'
It's been three years since the Zika epidemic swept across Brazil. Rachel Martin talks to BBC producer William Kremer about the thousands of babies born with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads.
What's Changed Since Mexico's Bloody Crackdown On 1968 Student Protests?
Fifty years ago, government forces opened fire on a student-led protest in Mexico City. Some say the repression opened a path for democratic change; others say a legacy of impunity has endured.
China Unbound: What An Emboldened China Means For The World
China has definitely risen. NPR's correspondents set out to find out what that entails, reporting from more than a dozen countries across the globe.
Top U.N. Court Dashes Landlocked Bolivia's Hopes Of Ocean Access
The International Court of Justice says it did not find that Bolivia's neighbor Chile has a legal obligation to enter into negotiations with Bolivia about access to the ocean.
News Brief: Brett Kavanaugh, Indonesia Tsunami, Trade Deal
Where do things stand with the Supreme Court nomination? More than 800 people are dead after a tsunami in Indonesia. After weeks of talks, Canada will stay in a trade pact with the U.S. and Mexico.