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MAN UNITED CONFIDENTIAL: Transfer chiefs’ Spain trip sparks Mason Greenwood rumours, Harry Maguire answers England call and club scouts another Brazilian to replace Casemiro

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Manchester United’s football director John Murtough and chief transfer negotiator Matt Hargreaves popped up in Spain on Monday, sparking rumours that Mason Greenwood’s future was on the agenda.

Greenwood has spent the season on loan at Getafe and has been strongly linked with a £40million permanent move to LaLiga in the summer.

Murtough and Hargreaves were first seen on a video filmed outside a Barcelona restaurant where they had lunch with Barca sporting director Deco and two high-powered representatives from

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The tiny Brazilian club that fooled North Korea – ‘They would have been angry if we had won’

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Everyone seems to have a slightly different estimate of how many people were outside the stadium on that strange November afternoon, but the consensus is that it was a lot.

As the bus crept through the crowd, the Brazilian footballers on board stared out of the windows. Locals — tens of thousands of them, on some accounts — flooded the streets. Most greeted the bus with diffident waves. A few ran alongside, hoping to catch a glimpse of someone they

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A Brazilian mountain is home to a surprising number of parasitic wasps

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The tropics are teeming with life, tending to hold far more species than milder environments closer to the poles. But one group of insects, the Darwin wasps, were thought to buck that trend.

Researchers who compared wasp diversity in the United Kingdom and the United States with tropical areas in the 1970s and ’80s concluded that these wasps were most diverse at mid-latitudes — say, Kentucky or England. But others thought that people just weren’t looking hard enough in the

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Lil Nas X möchte als nächstes „Folk“- und „Brazilian Funk“-Musik machen

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Lil Nas X

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Es scheint Lil Nas X nahm sein Pferd die „Altstadtstraße“ hinunter nach São Paulo. Der „Industry Baby“-Rapper schlug vor, dass sein nächstes großes Musikprojekt einen brasilianischen Touch haben könnte.

„Zuerst möchte ich diese geile, geile Musik rausschmeißen, und dann werde ich wieder da draußen sein [touring]„Der 24-Jährige (geb Montero Lamar Hill) sagte bei der Weltpremiere seines Dokumentarfilms: Es lebe Monteroam Samstag, 9. September, per Exclaim!

Bei der Vorführung des Toronto International Film

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‘Pressure tactics’ of cheap Turkish surgery exposed: Undercover reporter, 24, seeking a Brazilian Butt Lift is swamped with messages offering 30% discount – but only if she pays within 48 hours

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Pressure tactics deployed by Turkish cosmetic surgery clinics were today exposed by a shock investigation. 

An undercover reporter, posing as a 24-year-old wanting a Brazilian bum lift (BBL), contacted nine providers across Istanbul.

Within hours, she was offered time-sensitive deals with up to 30 per cent knocked off the total fee and incentives to book multiple surgeries. 

Experts today slammed the ‘unsafe and incredibly unscrupulous’ sales tactics that were found in The News Movement’s probe.

Doctors warned Brits contemplating going

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Chelsea close in on another Brazilian wonderkid as ‘agreement reached after £17m bid’ | Football | Sport

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He will be reunited with Angelo if he does become a Chelsea player. He was also set to move to Strasbourg, the club Chelsea chiefs recently acquired.

However, GianlucaDiMarzio.com claims that there is now a chance he could stay at Stamford Bridge this season. Pochettino has been impressed by the wide attacker and views him as part of his plans.

Angelo came off the bench in the friendlies against Fulham, Brighton and Wrexham. He was an unused substitute for the

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Leny Andrade, ‘First Lady of Brazilian Jazz,’ Dies at 80

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Leny Andrade, the Brazilian singer who earned an international following with her soulful fusion of samba, bossa nova and American jazz and whom Tony Bennett once called the Ella Fitzgerald of Brazil, died on July 24 in Rio de Janeiro. She was 80.

Her death, in a hospital, from pneumonia, was confirmed in a statement by a Rio retirement home for artists where she was living. She had also been treated for Lewy body dementia.

Often referred to as “the

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President Lula’s former lawyer takes seat on Brazilian Supreme Court

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The former personal lawyer of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is taking a seat on the country’s Supreme Court on Thursday amid criticism that their relationship poses a conflict of interest.

Lula appointed Cristiano Zanin in June, drawing accusations from the opposition that he is jeopardizing the impartiality of Brazil’s highest court by making a friend one of its justices. The president denies having a friendship with the lawyer.

Zanin, who holds a law degree from the Pontifical

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Liverpool transfer news: New Romeo Lavia bid submitted as Brazilian alternative emerges | Football | Sport

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Liverpool have reportedly submitted an improved bid for Southampton’s Romeo Lavia with Fluminense’s star Andre also believed to be among their list of alternative targets. The Reds saw an opening bid instantly rebuffed by Southampton for the ex-Manchester City academy starlet last week but that has not stopped them from continuing to pursue the 19-year-old Belgian, who is Jurgen Klopp’s priority signing.

Southampton are looking for close to £50million for Lavia and Liverpool’s opening bid was understood to be worth

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With Lula in Charge, What’s Next for the Brazilian Left?

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Brazil is the largest nation with the largest economy in Latin America. It has gone through a tumultuous transition over the past decade: from a left-leaning government to one that was right-wing and authoritarian and now back to a Workers’ Party–led coalition government under President Luis Inacio Lula de Silva.

To address the

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