Rio 2016: Protests cloud Olympic Games build-up
By Al Jazeera
05 July 2016 |
9:26 am
With one month to go until the start of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, public workers have been protesting over unpaid wages, there are concerns about the Zika virus and Brazil’s wider political crisis.
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