Brazil
- Brazil’s Geovanni signs for Hull
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:42:44
AFP - Brazil international Geovanni has joined newly-promoted Hull City, the English Premier League side announced Saturday.
- Brazilian striker Jo joins Manchester City football club for record fee
(AFP)
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:40:35
AFP - Brazilian striker Jo joined Manchester City from CSKA Moscow on Wednesday for what the English Premier League side said was a “club record” undisclosed fee.
- Poor countries should set climate targets: Brazil leader
(AFP)
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:20:07
AFP - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has urged developing countries, including his own, to join rich nations in setting targets to reduce emissions blamed for global warming.
- Elite police squad courts controversy in Brazil
(Reuters)
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:43:54
Reuters - Barked commands and the thump of
helicopter blades jolted Juliana out of bed early in the
morning of April 3.
- Man lost in Amazon for 42 days dies in father’s arms
(Reuters)
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:04:11
Reuters - A Brazilian student lost in the
Amazon rain forest for more than 40 days was found by his
father, only to die in his arms shortly after, rescue officials
said on Tuesday.
- U.S. cuts trade benefits for India, Brazil, others
(Reuters)
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:51:26
Reuters - Gold necklaces from India, an alloy from Brazil and 23 other developing country products will no longer receive U.S. duty-free treatment, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said on Monday. - Brazil’s Petrobras ready to pump oil in Nigeria
(AFP)
Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:48:36
AFP - Brazil’s state-run Petrobras on July 21 will start pumping oil from Nigeria’s offshore Agbami oil field, in partnership with Total and Chevron-Texaco, the company said Saturday.
- Group denies misleading media over Amazon tribe
(Reuters)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:16:55
Reuters - A group that campaigns for
tribal peoples’ rights denied on Tuesday that it and the
Brazilian government had misled the media over photographs of
an uncontacted Indian tribe in the Amazon last month.
- Sao Paulo puts on display of Japanese culture for visiting prince
(AFP)
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:00:26
AFP - Sao Paulo put on a display of Japanese culture to rival one of its carnival parades Saturday in a procession attended by Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito.
- Brazil creates new Indian reservation
(AP)
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:08:40
AP - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed a new 3.8 million acre (1.5 million hectare) Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rain forest’s logging frontier. - Brazil to seek U.S. trade sanctions over cotton
(Reuters)
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:23:25
Reuters - Brazil said on Friday it would seek as much as $4 billion in sanctions on U.S. imports after the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted a final ruling in a long-running dispute over Washington’s cotton subsidies. - Where’s the beef? In Brazil, it’s at center stage
(Reuters)
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:01:01
Reuters - The cattle are the stars at Brazil’s
14th annual Feicorte International Beef Fair but these
celebrities are actually admired for being pieces of meat.
- Judge orders soldiers out of Rio slum after murders
(Reuters)
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:14:06
Reuters - A Brazilian judge ordered army patrols out of a Rio de Janeiro slum on Wednesday after 11 soldiers were accused of involvement in the gangland killing of three youths in a neighboring shantytown. - Brazil extends Amazon soy ban
(AP)
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:29:39
AP - Grain crushers have extended a two-year-old moratorium on the purchase of soybeans planted in areas of the Amazon rain forest cut down after 2006, Brazil’s environment minister said Tuesday. - Brazilian cop denies torturing journalists
(AP)
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:27:01
AP - A police officer accused of heading a paramilitary militia has denied any part in the kidnapping and torture of two journalists. - Brazil soldiers accused in gang killings
(AP)
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:44:55
AP - Eleven Brazilian soldiers were arrested after allegedly turning over three shantytown residents to a drug gang that executed them and left their bodies in a garbage dump, police said Monday. - Bush seeks trade concessions from Brazil, India, China
(Reuters)
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:36:30
Reuters - Brazil, India and China need to make more concessions in their manufacturing and services sectors for a successful conclusion to the Doha round of global trade talks, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday.
- McCain renews support for Brazil on UN Security Council: report
(AFP)
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:05:13
AFP - US presidential hopeful John McCain backs Brazil’s inclusion on the UN Security Council and in an expanded G8, and would bump Russia from the exclusive club of leading world economies, a Brazilian newspaper reported Sunday.
- Brazilian samba star Jamelao dies
(AFP)
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:01:45
AFP - Brazilian samba superstar Jose Bispo dos Santos, better known as Jamelao, has died at the age of 95 following a serious infection, his samba school said.
- Brazil museum defends security after Picasso theft
(AFP)
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:42:32
AFP - A Sao Paulo museum hit by the theft of two Picasso engravings and two Brazilian paintings worth more than 550,000 dollars defended its security system Friday as “adequate.”
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