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Jill Langlois

Breaking News writer in São PauloGlobalPost
Jill Langlois is a GlobalPost breaking news writer based in São Paulo, Brazil.She has written about everything from Olympic/World Cup preparations and the economy, to prison reform and a city plagued by crack addiction. Her work has appeared in the Associated Press, The New York Times, USA Today, GlobalPost's Brazil section and Canada's The Globe and Mail, among other publications.Born in Sault Ste Marie, Canada, Jill holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto's Ryerson University. You can visit her at http://jilllanglois.com/.
Business, Finance & Economics
Brazil’s anti-poverty plan threatened by global slump
Lifestyle
Six tons of Afghan hash disguised as chocolate drink intercepted on its way to Canada
Agence France-Presse
Dundi, one of Rio’s most sought after drug traffickers, arrested
Agence France-Presse
Rome pulls out of 2020 Olympics race
Agence France-Presse
Train collision in São Paulo injures 38, puts two in critical condition
Agence France-Presse
Brazilian man who threw alcohol on his wife and set her on fire arrested
Business, Finance & Economics
Apple trying to sue bankrupt Kodak for patent infringement
Politics
Majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court approves Ficha Limpa electoral law
Politics
Canadian Conservative government scraps controversial long-gun registry, celebrates with cocktail party
Agence France-Presse
Suicide bomber kills at least 17 Shiite Muslims in northwest Pakistani market
Lifestyle
Quebec students must take religion and ethics class, Supreme Court of Canada rules
Lifestyle
HIV/AIDS prevention campaign underway for Brazil’s Carnival celebrations
Agence France-Presse
São Paulo’s Carnival opens first night of festivities with samba school grand marshal’s wedding
Agence France-Presse
Rio de Janeiro keeps Carnival clean with 745 garbage collectors, including the famous Sorriso
Lifestyle
São Paulo samba school Gaviões da Fiel pays tribute to former-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during Carnival parade
Agence France-Presse
One dead after couch-surfing stunt goes wrong in Quebec
Agence France-Presse
Death rate on federal highways during Carnival in Brazil drops 9.6%
Agence France-Presse
Almost 200 are homeless after fire in Brazilian favela
Agence France-Presse
São Paulo’s Carnival results end in mob attack
Lifestyle
Brazilian Beatles tribute takes Carnival by storm
Lifestyle
São Paulo’s Carnival mob-starter identified
Agence France-Presse
Buenos Aires train crash kills at least 49 (VIDEO)
Lifestyle
Rio’s Carnival street parties bring out 4 million revellers (VIDEO)
Agence France-Presse
More than 65,000 affected by flooding in Acre, Brazil
Agence France-Presse
Washington boy, 9, could face charges in shooting of 8-year-old classmate
Business, Finance & Economics
CoRoT-20b: new planet found
Agence France-Presse
Theresa Erickson sentenced in baby-selling ring case (VIDEO)
Lifestyle
Nike Galaxy causes riot (VIDEO)
Politics
Yemen car bomb kills at least 26
Agence France-Presse
Brazil sues Houaiss for publishing “pejorative and prejudiced” definitions of gypsy
Agence France-Presse
Iqaluit fire leaves dozens homeless
Lifestyle
Jack Nicholson photo used by Brazilian man on ID, arrested for trying to open bank account
Agence France-Presse
FHM ‘racist’ cover pulled
Agence France-Presse
Miranda Washinawatok: Seventh grade student punished for speaking Menominee in class
Agence France-Presse
Bolivian journalists strangled to death
Lifestyle
“Black Madam” Padge Victoria Windslowe arrested for giving toxic butt injections
Lifestyle
Virgin Atlantic hires “whisper coach” to keep crew quiet
Lifestyle
HIV rate drops in injection drug users
Agence France-Presse
Cyclist killed by São Paulo bus
Agence France-Presse
FIFA’s Jerome Valcke says Brazil’s World Cup organizers need “a kick up the backside”
Agence France-Presse
Quebec bus crash kills 2, injures at least 20
Politics
Medvedev orders Khodorkovsky review
Agence France-Presse
FIFA’s Jerome Valcke calls Brazil’s Aldo Rebelo “infantile”
Agence France-Presse
Isaías “Borrof” de Oliveira Cabral: Drug trafficker Nem’s right-hand man arrested in Rio
Lifestyle
900-year-old heart stolen from Irish cathedral (VIDEO)
Business, Finance & Economics
Titanic sunk by “supermoon”?
Lifestyle
58.4% of São Paulo students don’t know math
Conflict
US Army suicides up 80% since start of Iraq War
Agence France-Presse
Maurizzio Cersósimo Mattos arrested trying to sell someone else’s island
Agence France-Presse
Ahmed Adel: “virginity test” doctor acquitted in Egypt
Lifestyle
Nigeria car bombing kills as many as 10 at church
Agence France-Presse
Bolivia’s Evo Morales defends right to chew coca leaf (VIDEO)
Agence France-Presse
Ricardo Teixeira quits World Cup and CBF
Lifestyle
H1N1 kills pregnant woman and her baby in Brazil
Lifestyle
Mexico’s mass grave is a 1300-year-old cemetery (VIDEO)
Agence France-Presse
Pennsylvania school bus crash kills at least 1
Lifestyle
Brazil bans flavored cigarettes
Lifestyle
Brazil learns to speak English
Politics
Brazil gets tough on foreign companies
Agence France-Presse
Jerome Valcke suspended as FIFA’s World Cup 2014 liaison to Brazil