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128 people were detained by police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo during clashes following a demonstration against this year’s football World Cup.
A car was set on fire. Shops, banks and a police vehicle were also damaged.
The violence forced the authorities to cancel some of the festivities planned for the city’s 460th anniversary.
Earlier, some 2,500 people took to the street to complain about the costs of staging the World Cup in Brazil.
They marched through central Sao Paulo waving flags, carrying banners and chanting: “There will be no Cup”.
There were similar small protests in Rio de Janeiro and other cities.
“We are against the millions and millions of dollars being spent for the Cup,” university student Leonardo Pelegrini dos Santos told a foreign news agency.
“It is money that should be invested in better health and education services and better transportation and housing,” he said.
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