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MNA Sports Desk: Striker Gabriel Jesus has been suspended from international matches with Brazil for two months because of bad behavior in the latest Copa América final. The governing body of South American soccer, CONMEBOL, also announced Wednesday that it fined the 22-year-old Jesus $30,000 for actions it considers insulting and defamatory during Brazil’s 3-1 win over Peru in the July 7 decider. Jesus was sent off after a second yellow card at the 70-minute mark in the South American cup final, reports the Associated Press. He protested the decision with hand gestures suggesting the referee had been paid off ...

MNA International Desk: Brazilian police said on Sunday (local time) they arrested one person and are seeking an arrest warrant for another in connection with the theft of a gold shipment at São Paulo’s international airport on July 25. The authorities did not name any of the suspects in the theft, which involved 718.9 kilos of gold worth an estimated $29 million from the cargo terminal of Guarulhos international airport, reports Reuters. Security firm Brink’s Co, which was responsible for delivering the gold to the airport, said in a statement last week that it had completed the delivery and the ...

MNA Sports Desk: Brazil advanced to the final of the Copa America with a 2-0 win over old rivals Argentina in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday thanks to a goal in each half from Gabriel Jesus and Roberto Firmino. Jesus gave Brazil the lead in 19 minutes when Firmino sent in a low cross for the unmarked striker to side-foot home from close range. The two combined again on the counterattack after 71 minutes to make it 2-0 after great work from Jesus left Firmino with the simplest of tap-ins, reports Reuters. Sergio Aguero hit the bar with a header in ...

MNA Sports Desk: Copa America hosts Brazil had three goals ruled out and missed a series of chances as they were held 0-0 by Group A rivals Venezuela on Tuesday. Roberto Firmino had a goal chalked off late in the first half after the referee awarded a foul against the hosts, before substitute Gabriel Jesus found the net on the hour mark only for a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) review to deem Firmino offside in the build-up. Philippe Coutinho looked to have finally found the winner when he netted from close range but VAR intervened again, according to a Reuters ...

MNA Sports Desk: It was not pretty, nor particularly convincing at times, but Brazil will take it – and so will Philippe Coutinho. With a little help from the struggling Barcelona star and a welcome hand from VAR, the Copa America hosts overcame the loss of Neymar and sealed a 3-0 victory over Bolivia that on another day could have finished with a result far less favourable to the South American giants. The Selecao caused the first stir of the Copa America as they walked out decked in white, a nod to their original colours that were all but jettisoned ...

MNA International Desk: At least 40 prisoners in Brazil were found strangled to death on Monday in four jails in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, where a fight between rival prison gangs resulted in 15 dead the day before, authorities said. A federal task force is being sent to Manaus in an effort to halt the violence. Prison clashes often spread rapidly in Brazil, where drug gangs have de facto control over nearly all jails. In January 2017, nearly 150 prisoners died during three weeks of violence in north and northeastern Brazil, as local gangs backed by Brazil’s two ...

MNA International Desk: At least seven people were killed and some 150 others missing when a dam collapsed at an iron-ore mine in southeast Brazil. Emergency teams rescued scores of trapped people by helicopter, officials say. The break caused a sea of muddy sludge to spread across rural areas of Brumadinho, in Minas Gerais state, burying buildings and vehicles, reports BBC. The accident comes just over three years since a dam burst in another town in Minas Gerais, killing 19 people. Many of the missing are workers who were having lunch in the dam’s cafeteria which was buried by the ...

MNA International Desk: Brazil’s top electoral court on Friday barred jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in this year’s presidential because of his corruption conviction, reported news agency. The widely expected decision removes a cloud hanging over Brazil’s most uncertain election in decades – though Lula’s lawyers have said they would appeal an adverse decision to the Supreme Court. “What is at stake here today is the equality of all citizens before the law and the Constitution,” Judge Og Fernandes told the court in his vote to declare Lula ineligible. Judge Admar Gonzaga, who as a ...

MNA Sports Desk: Belgium struck early and then held off a late Brazil fightback to send the five-times champions tumbling out of the World Cup at the quarter-final stage with a 2-1 victory in an end-to-end thriller on Friday. A Fernandinho own goal and brilliant Kevin De Bruyne strike, after Thiago Silva had hit the post for Brazil, earned Belgium a date with neighbours France in St Petersburg on Tuesday, their second trip to the last four at a World Cup after 1986. Brazil will depart at the last eight stage for the third time in the last four World ...

MNA Sports Desk: Neymar barged his way into the World Cup limelight with a goal, an assist and another helping of histrionics as Brazil roared into the quarter-finals with a 2-0 victory over Mexico on Monday that inflicted a seventh straight last-16 exit on the central Americans, reported news agency. The PSG forward was both architect and executioner for Brazil, sliding home in the second half and then teeing up Roberto Firmino late on, but he also writhed on the floor, seemingly in agony, after Mexico Miguel Layun had made slight contact with his ankle. That should not overshadow his ...

MNA Sports Desk: On a breezy afternoon by the Gulf of Finland Brazil beat Costa Rica 2-0 at the St Petersburg Stadium to ease their route towards the knockout stage of Russia 2018. The goals were both scored in injury time, the first by their best player on the day Philippe Coutinho, who came haring through a crowd on to a touch from Gabriel Jesus to poke the ball through the legs of Keylor Navas and send the yellow-shirted stands into a fever. As the clock ticked down Neymar added a second, the Costa Rica defence finally parting after some ...

MNA Sports Desk: Brazil continued the trend of tournament favourites under performing as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Switzerland in their FIFA World Cup 2018 Group E opener in Rostov. Having bowed out of their home tournament four years ago with a 7-1 semi-final defeat to Germany, Brazil initially started their mission to put that humiliation behind them in stunning fashion when Philippe Coutinho struck a sublime goal to open the scoring. Despite dictating the pace of the game, Brazil were never completely dominant and had Switzerland’s rather toothless attack to thank for not taking advantage of the ...

MNA Sports Desk: A recovering Neymar was confirmed and injured leader Dani Alves was replaced by Danilo and Fagner in a Brazil World Cup squad of few surprises on Monday. The only surprises were among the likely reserves for the tournament in Russia, with the inclusion of Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Fred and winger Taison. Neymar has been recovering from right foot surgery in March, and Brazil Football Confederation doctors believe he will be fit to train next week in Teresopolis, where preparations will begin, and play on 3 June in a friendly against Croatia in Liverpool. Brazil doctor Rodrigo Lasmar ...

MNA Sports Desk: Isco scored a hat-trick as Spain hammered an Argentina side without Lionel Messi 6-1 in a friendly on Tuesday, while Brazil defeated Germany 1-0 in their first meeting since the 2014 World Cup. Gareth Southgate’s England were denied victory over Italy at Wembley after the visitors were awarded a disputed late penalty in a 1-1 draw following consulation with the video assistant referee. Spain underlined their status as chief contenders at this year’s World Cup in Russia as they extended their unbeaten run under Julen Lopetegui to 18 matches in sensational fashion in Madrid. Diego Costa bravely ...

MNA International Desk: A girl who was burned in an arson attack at a nursery school in Brazil succumbed to her wounds on Saturday, bringing the overall death toll to nine people. The four-year-old girl had been transferred to a hospital in Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais, some 370 miles (600 kilometers) north of the small town of Janauba where the attack occurred, according to Folha de Sao Paulo, a local newspaper. A security guard at the nursery sprayed his young victims with alcohol before setting fire to the building. He himself died from burns a few ...

MNA International Desk: Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for graft on Wednesday—a stark fall from grace for the iconic leftist leader, and the latest twist in a sprawling political corruption probe engulfing Latin America’s largest economy. Lula, who ruled Brazil from 2003-2010, was convicted and handed a 9.5-year prison term for accepting a bribe of a luxury seaside apartment and $1.1 million. But anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro, who handed down the sentence, said the 71-year-old Lula would remain free pending an appeal—something his lawyers immediately said they would lodge. ...

MNA International Desk: Brazil is fighting an outbreak of yellow fever that has killed at least 40 people in two months, officials say. The health ministry said in a report Tuesday that it was the highest rate of deaths recorded from the disease in 14 years. Yellow fever is carried by monkeys and can be transmitted to humans by mosquito bites. It can be prevented by a common vaccine. But the ministry’s infectious diseases chief Eduardo Hage told AFP that 22 infections had recently been detected in Espirito Santo state, where vaccines are not carried out because it is considered ...

MNA International Desk: Jailed members of Brazil’s most powerful drug gang killed 33 inmates at a prison on Friday, decapitating and cutting out the hearts of most of them, in revenge for a separate prison massacre that left 56 dead this week. The bloodletting in the Monte Cristo prison in the Amazonian state of Roraima, carried out by members of the First Capital Command (PCC) gang, sparked fears that months of violence between criminal groups controlling Brazil’s prisons had spiraled out of control. The government of Roraima state said the situation at the Agricola de Monte Cristo Penitentiary was now ...

MNA International Desk: An uprising at a prison in Brazil claimed the lives of at least 56 prisoners over the weekend, state-run media agency Agencia Brasil reported Monday. Bodies were thrown over the wall of the complex, and at least six people were decapitated, the news agency reported. The revolt started Sunday afternoon as part of a rivalry between two criminal organizations at the Anisio Jobim Prison Complex in the city of Manaus, Agencia Brasil reported, citing Sergio Fontes, the public safety secretary for the state of Amazonas. Violence erupted on Sunday between incarcerated members of the Familia do Norte ...

MNA Sports Desk: It was a long road back to redemption as Brazil outplayed and outscored rivals Argentina 3-0 in Belo Horizonte, the city they were humiliated 7-1 in 2014 by Germany. Brazil returned to the Belo Horizonte and put back smiles on the faces of the fans who suffered emotional pain from their 7-1 defeat two years ago against Germany, as they made amends by whipping their bitterest rivals Argentina 3-0 in the 2018 South American FIFA World Cup qualifiers on Thursday in the Super Classico. Two goals from Philippe Coutinho and Neymar in the first half and third ...

MNA Sports Desk: Neymar’s second-half goal gave Brazil a 2-1 victory over Colombia on Tuesday as the former world champions registered their second consecutive win to take the second place in the South America qualifying group for Russia 2018. The home side got the perfect start after just 80 seconds when Miranda rose to head home a corner and score his first goal in 33 appearances for the national side, as news agency reported. Brazil, playing just their second game under new coach Tite, dominated the first half with a high-pace pressing game but struggled to make clear cut chances ...

MNA Sports Desk: Two goals from Manchester City new boy Gabriel Jesus and skipper Neymar, including the fastest goal in Olympic history, helped Brazil made a spot in the men’s Olympic football final with a 6-0 semi-final success over Honduras on Wednesday. The home side, playing in front of a packed Maracana stadium and desperately seeking the only international title they have yet to win, got off to the perfect start by scoring after just 15 seconds. The win raises the tantalizing possibility of a Brazil-Germany final, and a repeat of the 2014 World Cup semi-final in which Germany hammered ...

MNA International Desk: The senate of Brazil, as a process of removing permanently from office, on Wednesday voted to hold an impeachment trial for the suspended president Dilma Rousseff. The vote in favour of trying Rousseff was 59 in favor, 21 against. The trial is set to open on August 25, four days after the Olympics closing ceremony and is projected to last five days, closing with a judgment vote. Dilma Vana Rousseff (born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician and was the 36th President of Brazil. She is the first woman to hold the office. She ...

MNA Sports Desk: The opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games officially took place with a long and tremendous celebration of Brazilian culture in the Maracana Stadium. The leading images from the four-hour opening ceremony will be supermodel Giselle Bundchen’s catwalk across the pitch to ‘The Girl From Ipanema’, the joyous arrival of Brazil’s team and former marathon star Vanderlei de Lima lighting an Olympic cauldron. Rio 2016 has had a hard background with fears about the country’s capacity to afford it; Rio’s arrangements and sport’s authority in the face of a divisive doping crisis, but South America’s ...

MNA Sports Desk: Gabriel Barbosa scored an excellent individual goal as Neymar pay back to lead Brazil to a relaxed 2-0 victory over Japan in an Olympic warm-up game on Saturday. Santos striker, 19-year-old, who has been connected to European clubs including Juventus, gave Brazil a 1-0 lead in the 33rd minute after an enthralling slalom through the Japan defence. The shot by the forward known to fans as “Gabigol” took a big glance on its way into the Japanese net but there was no denying the exciting burst of skill which shaped the opener. Neymar desperate to lead Brazil ...

MNA Sports Desk: Brazil’s intelligence agency, ABIN said on Tuesday that it was investigating all threats to next month’s Rio Olympics after a supposed Brazilian Islamist group promised loyalty to Islamic State (IS) less than three weeks before the Games. The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, and commonly known as Rio 2016, is a major international multi-sport event in the tradition of the Olympic Games due to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. The SITE Intelligence Group that observes the internet stated that a group calling ...

MNA Sports Desk: The Brazilian football legend Pele has produced a song celebrating the imminent Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, for the first Olympics ever in South America in 2016. The enormously famous star tweeted to social media earlier in the week to tease the Friday release on download sites. He posted a photo of himself with a laughing face before a microphone, saying that he was keen to release a song he had written called ‘Esperanca’ or ‘Hope.’ The lyrics of the attractive tune, on which Pele is escorted by a children’s chorus, promise a “Brazilian festival” that ...