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After two years without its frenetic festival, sultry samba and towering floats, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival parades Friday. A member of a carnival samba school performs during a ...

Revelers attend the Simpatia e Quase Amor “bloco,” or street party, during Rio’s Carnival along Ipanema beach, Feb. 26, 2017, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images) Revelers ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — Thousands of boisterous samba fans came together to watch the first night of Rio’s Carnival parades Sunday, and all eyes are on a 7-year-old girl who is the youngest ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — Swathed in nothing but a sprinkling of sequins and a puff of feathers, Rio de Janeiro’s samba group dancers are the star attractions of the world’s most iconic Carnival ...

Samba school members sing as they march toward the Sambadrome during a protest against mayor Marcelo Crivella in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, June 17, 2017. The samba schools are protesting the ...