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A 27-year-old man was arrested in Maracaju, a city in Mato Grosso do Sul on Sunday (26), after trying to put out the Olympic torch with a bucket of water. According to the delegate Amylcar Eduardo Romero, the incident occurred around 11:25 am (on local time). "The principle would be a joke promoted by the suspect and his friends, and who had been released by Facebook," said the officer. The police found no political motivation for the act, only intention of public disorder. "He played a great amount of water in the athlete who was carrying the torch. As he was far away, he failed to erase the flame, "Romero said. The delegate explained that the young man was apprehended in the act and will respond in freedom. He paid BRL 1,000 bail. The case was registered as qualified damage to society. The penalty for this crime is six months to three years.

A ferry that was doing the way Santos-Vicente de Carvalho, off the coast of São Paulo, had a problem during the trip. Then, as the crew reported the situation and tried to organize the passengers, a person decided to put to play the theme song from the movie "Titanic", the classic "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. The song, which came after warning that the boat wouldn't sink, made the passengers fall into laughter. The scene generated a video that already has over 189,000 views. The recording was published by page "Viver em Santos e Região" on the morning of Monday (20). According to the publication, the ferry, which haven't windows, was temporarily with smoke. Furthermore, there was delay to open the door and move the passengers to another boat.

The refugees who come to Brazil need to deal with various challenges to adapt to life in the new country, such as prejudice, language and culture shock. But a project of São Paulo aims to break down some of these barriers by using a special type of resident to receive foreigners: dogs as Mambo, Nick, Napoleão, Google and Halana. The program, called Best Friend Refugees, takes dogs to visit a shelter facing foreigners in the state capital. Coordination is the Inataa (National Institute of Securities and Animal Assisted Therapy), which has developed therapy dogs in environments such as nursing homes and hospitals. Now, double formed by dogs and their owners will monthly until the Passage House Newfoundland, state shelter located in the center, spend an hour with the locals. Adults and children can interact, play and affection in animals. "A research indicates that the therapeutic lines that using a language not verbal are more efficient for these populations

Homeless persecuted by the Mayor Fernando Haddad São Paulo has recorded five deaths of homeless people from the cold since the beginning of June: two in Santana, North zone, one in Paulista Avenue, in the central region, one in Bom Retiro, in the center, and another in Belém, East zone. The official cause of death can only be confirmed after the results of the autopsy, made by IML (Medical Legal Institute), which had not yet ruled on the specific cases. But both those who live on the sidewalks as the Pastoral Care of São Paulo's Street People (an NGO) accuse the GCM (Metropolitan Civil Guard) and other staffs from the City Hall to remove their blankets, mattresses and even pieces of cardboard they use to against the cold, by order of a policy "hygienist" of the mayor Fernando Haddad, according to  Exame  magazine. The janitorial operations, known popularly as "rapa", are known to whom suffers from low temperatures. In Square 14 Bis, in the Bela V

A family was chased and beaten by taxi drivers on the night of May 31 in Brasilia, after being mistaken for Uber drivers. The episode occurred when four brothers landed in the Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport and followed by car to Ceilândia, a nearby city. The Civil Police investigates the case. According to one of the victims, a taxi driver closed his car and after the collision, pretended he would "solve" the situation. The family was surrounded and attacked, despite the protests that were not Uber drivers. "When we pulled up, more than 50 taxi drivers have arrived at the car, breaking the car glass, knocking on people, and shouting, 'Kill that is Uber, death to the Uber', then I talked about: 'We are a family, we are coming trip, don't, don't', said one of the victims. Sticker says "I'm not a Uber driver" The case was registered at the 10th Police Station and one of the attackers recognized by ph

A woman with 42 year old was raped in a land invaded, on the night of June 4, in the Castro Pires neighborhood in Teófilo Otoni city, in Minas Gerais. According to the military police, two men raped the victim in a wooden tent and canvas and are fugitives. According to the military, the victim, who showed signs of intoxication with alcohol, reported to police that she was in a bar when a man invited to his house. However, the victim was forcibly taken to camp and, according to her, she was forced to make sex into one of the Landless Movement tents. The victim said that when he arrived on the spot, another man was waiting. The woman was referred to a hospital in the city to carry out tests. Until 14:35 the next day, police also performed searches and no one had been arrested. In Brazil, the Landless Movement is a political grouping of communist orientation that aims at the end of private property, the end of the Catholic Church and the destruction of the market economy.