Klimaanlegg var årsaken til museumsbrann i Rio de Janeiro

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Et klimaanlegg var hovedårsaken til at Brasils nasjonalmuseum i den tidligere hovedstaden Rio de Janeiro brant ned til grunnen, konkluderer eksperter.

I rapporten går det også fram at museet ikke hadde anbefalt utstyr for å hindre brann og spredning.

Museet huset 20 millioner historiske objekter da bygningen ble totalskadd i brannen natt til 2.september 2018.

Museu Nacional er landets eldste vitenskapelige institusjon, og ligger i Paco de Sao Cristovao; St.Christopher-palasset, som var residens for Portugals kongefamilie fra 1808 til 1821, og for den brasilianske keiserfamilien fra 1821 til revolusjonen i 1889. Palasset fungerte senere som parlamentsbygning.

Museet hadde 150,000 besøkende i 2017.

Rio de Janeiro var hovedstad fra 1763 til 1960, da den nye byen Brasilia ble føderal hovedstad.

Rio de Janeiro is the World Architecture Capital in 2020

Theatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro. Photo credit: Wikipedia.org

UNESCO has chosen Rio de Janeiro in Brazil as the World Architecture Capital for 2020.

It is the first time the UN is awarding a city this title, and this is part of a work of preserving architecture history in major cities.

The aim is to create an international forum for debates on demanding global challenges from a perspective on culture, cultural heritage, urban planning and architecture.

Rio de Janeiro was founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, and was the capital of Brazil until 1960 when the capital was transferred to the new city of Brasilia.

Norwegian får fly til Brasil

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Myndighetene i Brasil har gitt flyselskapet Norwegian tillatelse til å starte flygninger mellom Europa og Brasil. Det skriver brasilianske Globo, ifølge NRK. 
Det er ventet at det blir en rute mellom London og Rio de Janeiro og en mellom London og São Paulo.

Kilde: www.nrk.no – NRK

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Avis i Rio de Janeiro satser på papir etter 8 år som nettavis

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Den tradisjonsrike avisa Jornal do Brasil, som blir publisert i Rio de Janeiro, kommer igjen ut som papiravis, etter åtte år utelukkende som nettavis, melder nrk.no 
Papirutgavens tilbakekomst var en enorm suksess, ifølge avisa selv, etter at 40.000 aviser ble solgt i løpet av noen timer første dagen.

Avisa ble grunnlagt i 1891.

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Klart for OL i Rio de Janeiro, og i Brasilia

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Panoramautsikt over Rio de Janeiro, med den ikoniske Kristus-statuen på toppen av Corcovadofjellet, med det kjente landemerket “Sukkertoppen” i midten på bildet, og Guanabara-bukta i bakgrunnen. Foto: wikipedia.org

Fredag 5.august går startskuddet for 31. De olympiske sommerleker i Rio de Janeiro, hovedstaden i delstaten av samme navn, i Brasil.

10 500 utøvere fra 206 nasjoner deltar i til sammen 306 konkuranser. Kosovo og Sør-Sudan deltar for første gang.

Men selv om Rio de Janeiro er arrangørbyen, skal arenaer i andre byer benyttes også, i den føderale hovedstaden Brasilia, i landets største by Sao Paulo, i Belo Horizonte, Salvador og i Manaus står fotball på programmet. 

I Rio de Janeiro er det 35 konkuransearenaer, hovedsaklig plassert i Barra da Yijuca, og i Copacabana, Maracana og Deodoro.

Åpnings- og avslutningsseremonien går av stabelen på Estadio do Maracana, som har plass til 90 000 tilskuere.

Sommerlekene blir avsluttet 21.august.

De paralympiske sommerleker blir arrangert i Rio fra 7. til 18.september.

Rio de Janeiro var Brasils hovedstad frem til 1960. 

Det er første gang et OL blir arrangert i Sør-Amerika. 

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Estonia to close its embassy in Brazil

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The government of Estonia has decided to close its embassy in Brazil to reduce spending, the Estonian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday, sputniknews.com reported.

According to the statement, the embassy in Brasilia is due to be closed on January 1, 2017. However, three honorary consuls will continue to work on Estonia’s behalf in the country.

“Our diplomats have been doing a good job, protecting the country’s interests in the fields of security, economy  However, if the country has to cut spending, we should do it as well,” Estonian Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand said.

She noted that for Estonia it was especially important to keep its embassies in the European Union countries and in NATO member states open.

News source: www.sputniknews.com

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US ARCHITECTS STUDIO GANG TO DESIGN NEW US EMBASSY IN BRASILIA

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Studio Gang Architects, based in Chicago and New York, has been chosen by the US Department of State to design the new US Embassy compound in Brasilia, the Brazilian federal capital city, reports archdaily.com 

Selected from a shortlist of six, the Jeanne Gang-led practice won the commission with their “strong and cohesive team approach with more than 20 years of collaborative experience executing projects with complex constraints at challenging sites,” says the report. 

“The multi-building campus will be situated on the existing 4.8 hectares (12-acre) Chancery complex within the city’s “Diplomatic Sector” near the seat of the Brazilian government.

The project will rebuild the compound and includes: a Chancery, Marine Security Guard Residence, support facilities, perimeter security, and facilities for the Embassy community.”

See the whole article at http://www.archdaily.com/783448/studio-gang-to-design-new-us-embassy-in-brasilia

Source: www.archdaily.com, US Department of State

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PALESTINE OPENS AN EMBASSY IN BRASILIA

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The New Palestinian embassy in Brasilia. Photo: Facebook / Tuba Kawthar

The Palestinian Authority inaugurated its embassy Brasi’s capital city Brasilia Wednesday amid a diplomatic row between Brazil and Israel, reports telesurtv.net

The inauguration comes weeks after Brazil rejected Israel’s ambassador, a former leader of West Bank settlers.

Representatives of Arab countries and Arab Brazilians attended the event, hosted on land donated to the PA by former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

“This is the conclusion of a dream of mine that was also a dream of colleagues that came before me in this mission in the last four decades,” said Palestinian ambassador Ibrahim Alzeben. “I hope that this is the beginning of a new phase in relations between Brazil and Palestine, that they can be closer and more diversified.”

In Latin America, the Palestinian Authority also maintains embassies in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela.

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FROM NATIONAL PRIDE TO BUS DEPOT – BRASILIA STADIUM

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– From national pride to bus depot, office block — and very occasional football stadium. Such is the current fate of the most expensive venue Brazil built for last year’s World Cup, authorities has admitted, sports.yahoo.com / AFP, reported.

The National Stadium in the capital Brasilia, also known as the Mane Garrincha in honour of the 1958 and 1962 World Cup-winning winger, hosted seven games last year in last year’s tournament.

But since the hosts’ third place play-off loss to the Netherlands the lack of a top-flight club in the city means the 72,000-capacity, $900 million venue is marking time as a footballing white elephant.

Local authorities confirmed they were looking to transfer up to 400 local officials from three federal government secretariats to the venue, while dismissing media claims that the ground was also being used as a bus depot after UOL web news portal showed hundreds of buses lined up on the stadium forecourt.

The stadium went three times over its initial budget to become the world’s second-costliest soccer ground after London’s Wembley Stadium.

Brazilians are already poring over the country’s biggest corruption scandal with dozens of politicians facing investigation over a huge kickbacks affair dogging state oil giant Petrobras.

Before that scandal broke a year ago, the cost of staging the World Cup — around $12 billion in all — had irked the public to the extent that roughly a million people joined nationwide protests which started on the eve of the Confederations Cup in June 2013 and ran through the World Cup itself.

Officials stressed Brasilia is a “multi-use” venue, and with no sizeable local club, authorities are stretching that definition to the maximum.

“All told, monthly costs for water, lighting, staff and maintenance are around 600,000 reais ($200,000),” a spokeswoman for the local state tourist authority told AFP.

She added only 1.5 million reais had been recouped since the venue opened in May 2013 — less than 10 percent of maintenancetb costs to date.

But she insisted buses were not being garaged at the venue.

“They are not staying there overnight. It is not a station. Some city centre buses are merely using it” on their routes.

The spokeswoman said “between 350 and 400” functionaries from three federal state secretariats, including sport, were set to be accommodated in office space at the venue for an estimated annual saving of 10 million reais to state authorities.

A stadium spokesman, meanwhile, confirmed discussions were ongoing to being first division football to the ground in the new season, starting on May 10, as happened on a handful of occasions last season.

In January, Brasilia scrapped plans to host the 2019 World University Games after the city’s newly-elected governor Rodrigo Rollemberg said the city was unable to “meet its financial obligation” to host the biennial multi-sport event.

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ESTLAND ÅPNET SIN FØRSTE AMBASSADE I SØR-AMERIKA

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Estland åpnet i august ambassade i Brasils hovedsad Brasilia. Dette er Estlands første ambassade i Sør-Amerika, og er også side-akkreditert til Chile, Colombia og Peru. Det bor rundt 500 estlendere i Brasil. Det var Estlands utenriksminister Urmas Paet som stod for den offisielle åpningen av ambassaden, sammen med sin brasilianske kollega Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado.

Brasil åpnet ambassade i Tallinn i 2011.

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