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Around the World: Beatings for Russians and Protections for Brazilians

Our weekly roundup of urban news from around the globe.

Heathrow Airport in London saw a record number of passengers in July. (Photo by Curt Smith via Flickr)

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Our weekly roundup of urban news from across the globe.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who, as Turkey’s prime minister, has played a key role in radically reshaping Istanbul (or destroying it, depending who you ask) won that country’s presidential election.

Brazil began enforcing a law that will protect the rights of domestic workers.

At a summit with African leaders in Washington, where President Obama emphasized that America will continue to focus its aid on economic partnerships instead of charity, U.S. firms promised the continent $37 billion in investment.

A few weeks after a survey predicted global air traffic will double in the next 20 years, both of London’s major airports reported processing a record-breaking number of passengers in July.

The Ebola outbreak is officially spreading in a fourth country: Nigeria confirmed its tenth case in Lagos, one of the world’s biggest cities.

And finally, the latest craze in Russia, daching, is part extreme sport, part political activism. Dachas are mansions that corrupt government officials illegally build for themselves on public land. Daching enthusiasts “tour” the grounds of these villas — and often get arrested or beaten by thugs in the process. “This is public enlightenment,” one daching devotee told the Moscow Times.

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