With the eyes of the world on the celebrations, samba dancers asked for the removal of illegal miners and “destroyers of mother Earth” from the rainforest.
Carnival dancers have taken the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro to pay tribute to Brazil’s largest Indigenous group and pressure President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to deliver on
Japanese police have referred two unnamed Marines from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni to local prosecutors in connection with separate incidents last year. One case involves a Marine suspected of trespassing and bodily injury; another involves a Marine suspected of theft.
Japanese police have arrested a Marine lance corporal on suspicion of punching an elderly Japanese woman in the face, an Iwakuni police spokesman said.