0205 GMT January 18, 2021
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Iranian short film, ‘The Castle,’ won three awards at the December 2020 edition of the Gralha International Monthly Film Awards (GIMFA) in Brazil.
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Wearing a traditional white coat and a surgical mask, "Doctor" Suelen da Silva uses a stethoscope to listen to her patient — a black doll that she is healing at her home on a hillside near Rio de Janeiro.
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The shooting of two young black girls – who had between them enjoyed fewer than 11 years of life – has sparked outrage in Brazil and intensified the debate over police violence and structural racism in a country still grappling with the legacy of slavery.
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Since she and her husband lost their jobs because of the pandemic, Ilma Silva Santos, a construction worker from the slums of Salvador in northeastern Brazil, has been feeding her family of five thanks to government relief payments – now set to expire at the end of the year.
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Brazil’s debt has ballooned to unprecedented levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the government faces a $112 billion refinancing cliff early next year, with April’s funding needs the highest ever for a single month.
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More than 1,000 demonstrators attacked a Carrefour Brasil supermarket in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Friday after security guards beat to death a black man at the store.
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Brazil must confront a growing injury list that includes star forward Neymar as it resumes World Cup qualifying this week, while Argentina is out to extend its perfect start at home to neighbor Paraguay.
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Arts & Culture Desk
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Neymar overtook Ronaldo and moved into second place behind Pele on Brazil’s all-time goalscoring list after notching a hat-trick in a 4-2 victory over Peru on Tuesday in a World Cup qualifier.
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Many people in Brazil are struggling to cope with less pandemic aid from the government and jumping food prices, with millions expected to slip back into poverty.
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Brazil's economy is set to shrink by 5.8 percent in 2020, the International Monetary Fund said, revising up an earlier forecast but warning the country faced "exceptionally high" risks.
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Brazil’s government is on course to post a primary budget deficit of 861 billion reais ($157 billion) this year, the Economy Ministry said in its bimonthly revenue and expenditure report, factoring in extended emergency transfers to the poor through the end of December.
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The ambassador of Iran to Brasilia said that Iranian companies are ready to do extraterritorial cultivation in Mato Grosso Province, western Brazil.
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Fires raging in the Pantanal, the biggest tropical wetlands on Earth, are threatening a nature reserve known as the home to the world's largest jaguar population, Brazilian authorities said.
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Iran’s ambassador to Brazil has said the South American country’s parliament has started activities of a friendship group with Iran after a two-year hiatus.
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