The PCC is the largest criminal organisation in Brazil and has around 20,000 members — with some estimates stating that the total number could be even higher, with the gang consisting of as many as 40,000 lifetime members plus 60,000 contractors.
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Portugal arrests 'Hulk', top Brazilian druglord and PCC gang ringleader
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Video. Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens opens Christmas season with over a million lights
Tivoli Gardens has opened its Christmas season in Copenhagen, bringing lights, trees and a familiar sense of winter tradition to one of the world’s oldest amusement parks.
The site, now 182 years old, draws crowds who return each…
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25 girls have been abducted from a secondary school in Nigeria, police say
ABUJA, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked a high school in northwestern Nigeria before dawn on Monday and abducted 25 schoolgirls, police said. One staffer at the school was killed and another was wounded in what was the latest incident of school…
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Video. Man sentenced to nine days in jail for rushing at Ariana Grande
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A 26-year-old man has been jailed for nine days after jumping a barricade and rushing toward Ariana Grande during a Singapore film premiere. Videos showed him putting…
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‘There is so much corruption’: hundreds of thousands protest in Manila over missing flood funds | Philippines
From a skyscraper in downtown Manila, a sea of white spreads out below, covering the vast green lawns of Rizal Park and expanding down arterial roads and sidestreets. It is formed of more than half a million people, clad in matching white…
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Russian Danube strike ignites gas tanker blaze on NATO’s border – POLITICO
Romania’s Department for Emergency Situations said in a statement on social media the blaze was the result of a “drone attack carried out on the territory of Ukraine” on Sunday night, which caused “a ship loaded with LPG” to be “engulfed in…
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Gunmen kidnap 25 girls from Nigerian school in Kebbi state
Armed men have killed a teacher and abducted at least 25 students in an attack on a girls’ secondary school in north-western Nigeria, police say.
The gang invaded the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, at around…
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Video. Greeks mark anniversary of 1973 Polytechnic uprising
Greeks gathered at the Polytechnic University in Athens on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of the 1973 student uprising against the military dictatorship.
People laid flowers at the memorial and the gate destroyed by a tank…
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