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Despite winning five World Cups, the country’s football team have always failed at the games
Notebook: Jokes about foiled terror plot before the Olympics are self-defence, writes Samantha Pearson
French group wants 400 hotels in recession-hit country by 2020
Hold your meeting the Brazilian way — with a long, leisurely lunch by the pool
The photographer’s images of Olympic construction sites bring into focus the murky politics of urban development
Justice chief says cell participated in Isis initiation baptismceremony over the internet
Law would aim to strengthen institution’s credibility in markets
Deepest recession yields record individual and corporate defaults
The businessman says Brazil’s auto market crisis is an ‘embarrassment’ to be overcome
Notebook: The armies of hired help are incompatible with the fairer society many say they want
Death of fourth-largest mobile operator in a country gripped by recession raises prospect of shake-up
Prosecutor Hebert Mesquita believes scores of companies took part in Zelotes bribery scheme
Jump in exports due to weaker currency and drought leads to supply shortfall
Telecoms group’s shares suspended after move to freeze payments
The ‘lava jato’ arrests provide rich pickings for legal firms, including those from abroad
Mayor of country’s largest city remains as one of last leading lights of the Workers’ party
Economy shrinks 5.4% in evidence of challenge facing the new Temer government
Judicial moves to temporarily block messaging service in Latin America’s biggest economy draw ire
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