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  2. Maré, Rio de Janeiro - Wikipedia

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    On March 30, 2014, ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Maré was occupied by various Brazilian security forces in an attempt to pacify the region.The raid began before dawn and involved over 1,000 police and other forces, including the Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE), Shock Police Battalion, several other police units, and the Brazilian Marine Corps.

  3. Mare Harbour - Wikipedia

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    Mare Harbour, known colloquially as East Cove Port, is a small settlement on East Falkland, on Choiseul Sound. It is mostly used as a port facility and depot for RAF Mount Pleasant , [ 1 ] as well as a deepwater port used by the Royal Navy ships patrolling the South Atlantic and Antarctica , which means that the main harbour of the islands ...

  4. Fort of the Maré - Wikipedia

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    The Fort of the Maré (Portuguese: Forte da Maré), ruins of a 16th-century fortification located in the civil parish São Mateus da Calheta, in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, along the southern coast of Terceira, Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

  5. COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil has resulted in 37,511,921 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 702,116 [1] deaths. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Brazil on 25 February 2020, [4] when a man from São Paulo who had traveled to Italy [5] tested positive for the virus.

  6. Italian Brazilians - Wikipedia

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    Italian settlement Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo: Total population; c. 450,000 (by citizenship) [1] c. 32,000,000 (by ancestry, about 15% of the total Brazilian population) [2] [3] [4] However, it is important to note that there are no official numbers of how many Brazilians have Italian ancestry, as the national census does not ask the ancestry of the Brazilian people since 1940.

  7. South Atlantic tropical cyclone - Wikipedia

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    A low-pressure area formed over the Congo Basin on 9 April. The next day it moved offshore northern Angola with a curved cloud pattern. It moved westward over an area of warm waters while the circulation became better defined.