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The Rio Times staff is a network of freelance journalists and bloggers from around the world who inform us about news from their regions and specific topics. This information is collected, reviewed and processed in our newsroom.

Naked with hand in pocket: without beaches, naturists from São Paulo take refuge in the countryside

The lack of official beaches for the practice of naturism on the coast of São Paulo has led thousands of fans of this lifestyle...

Is Compostela too far away? Learn about paths for pilgrims in Brazil

The Road to Santiago de Compostela, a Unesco world heritage site that involves some countries and ends in Spain, is the biggest dream of...

Macau hosts its first LGBTQIA+ film festival

Macau will host from February 3 to 12 the first film festival dedicated to the LGBTQIA+ community, but open to all, "even homophobes," in...

Cape Verde moved up to the 35th position in the Corruption Perception Index

This year's edition of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), developed by the non-governmental organization (NGO) Transparency International, shows that Cape Verde is, together with...

Brazilian dog breeder goes into despair at Turkish airport after losing 4 dogs

The reason? He couldn't hear from his four dogs, who were supposed to be traveling in the cargo compartment of the flight. A resident of Criciúma,...

Machu Picchu is in ‘free fall’ without tourists after protests in Peru

Empty, the entrance gate to Machu Picchu in Peru is a portrait of a country where violent protests have scared away tourists since December...

Bitcoin near-record January: crypto market grows by US$280 billion

Bitcoin is on track to close out its best January since 2013 amid bets that monetary tightening campaigns and the crypto sector crisis are...

East Timor: Australian government accused of silencing part of official history

The Australian Government is being accused of trying to hide part of the official history of the peacekeeping mission carried out in East Timor...

São Tomé and Príncipe: 900 teachers without salaries for five months

By Maximino Carlos There are more than 870 teachers hired at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, distributed in all districts of the country and...

Macau hotels to close 2022 with second worst occupancy rate ever

The hotel occupancy rate in Macau was 38.4% last year, the second lowest in more than two decades, and 11.7 percentage points lower than...

Cape Verde received over 700,000 tourists in 2022

The number of tourists who sought Cape Verde in 2022 exceeded 700,000, about 90% of the record 819,000 in 2019, the Minister of Tourism...

Angola raised US$1.95 billion from diamond sales in 2022

Angola is expected to collect US$1.95 billion from the export of some 8.75 million carats of diamonds in 2022, the Ministry of Mineral Resources,...

8 things you can order in economy class that you didn’t know

Besides the classic packet of peanuts and a soft drink, you may be entitled to more items in airline economy class that you don't...

Venezuela may be the first country in the world to lose all its glaciers

Some of the damage done by climate change can no longer be repaired. There would be no point in shutting down all greenhouse gas emissions...

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