The Latest Breaking News from Carnival

The annual event will be back after a pandemic-related hiatus

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Parades with Caribbean dancers and music will wend their way through the festival site, ending with steel band performances

Colorful floats and flamboyant dancers are delighting tens of thousands jammed into Rio de Janeiro's iconic Sambadrome, putting on a delayed Carnival celebration after the pandemic halted the dazzling displays.

Ahead of the first time Carnival has been held since 2020, Rio de Janeiro's top samba schools begin putting on their delayed parades.

Rio de Janeiro’s samba schools have begun putting on this year's delayed Carnival parades, the first after a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19-pandemic

Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival parade have returned after a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19-pandemic

Starting Wednesday night, Rio de Janeiro samba schools’ elaborate floats and feather-festooned dancers will parade between packed bleachers

Strictly regulated for the past two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Guadeloupe Carnival is usually an unmissable event on the French Caribbean islands. From January to March, Guadeloupeans live to the rhythm of the parades, led by dozens of groups of volunteers. For participants, it's often the consecration…

Two men were arrested after a car was driven into a crowd in Strepy-Bracquegnies in Belgium as organisers prepared for a carnival -dozens were injured

Organisers are promising the "carnival season '22 will not go uncelebrated"