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Rio de Janeiro has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest-ever New Year’s Eve celebration hosted by a city.

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The changes would have reduced sentences for those convicted over the 2023 attack on Brazil’s democratic institutions, including former President Jair Bolsonaro, though Congress can override the veto.