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Brasília :: Brazil | about 1 hour ago

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The first visit by an Iranian head of state to Brazil has generated two protests in the past week in which thousands of demonstrators, many of them Jews alarmed by Ahmadinejad's views on the Holocaust and on Israel, took to the streets and beaches of...

Tags: Ahmadinejad, Brazil, Brasília, International reaction to the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Antisemitism, Controversies surrounding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Politics, Rio de Janeiro, Iranian presidential election

Niterói :: Brazil | 1 day ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Brazil — Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor. The daily newspaper O Globo reports that Niemeyer is working on a collection of buildings in the...

Tags: Brazil, Niterói, Niterᅢᄈi, Rio de Janeiro, O Globo, Oscar Niemeyer, Niemeyer, Brasᅢᆳlia

São Paulo :: Brazil | 2 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Having just recently broken ground on a girls’ school in Malawi, Madonna is wasting no time in taking her Raising Malawi organization international. On a recent trip to Brazil, Madonna took time out to tour the Dona Marta shantytown in Rio. Accompanied...

Tags: Dona Marta, Madonna Wore Bullet-Proof Vest, Brazil, proof vests, Rio de Janiero, São Paulo, Marta Vieira da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Homework, Human Interest, Madonna (entertainer), Raising Malawi, Malawi, Education, Bulletproofing, Ballistic vest, Leather jacket, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Jackets, Law Crime, Favela, Poverty, Trackback, Overkill, Slums, Brazilian society

Pedro Juan Caballero :: Paraguay | 4 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Candido Figueredo sits on his bullet-riddled porch holding the tools of his trade: a reporter's notepad, a mobile phone and a black 9mm submachine gun. "I'm a rare species of journalist," admits Figueredo, the regional correspondent of Paraguay 's largest...

Tags: Tom Phillips Candido Figueredo, Rio de Janeiro, Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguayan, South American, Brazilian, Mariano Baez, Paraguay, Slums, Amambay Department, Drug lord, Brazilian society, Favela, Poverty

Campos :: Brazil | 5 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The light crude was found near the existing Marimba field and the proximity of installed infrastructure will make it possible to begin production at the new site by August 2010, the company said Monday. Petrobras is on track to invest more than the 60...

Tags: Petrobras, Brazil, Campos, Petrobras 36 Oil Platform, Environment, Campos Basin, Rio de Janeiro, Business Finance

Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 5 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

In the city of Cotia, Sao Paulo, F1 Ferrari driver Felipe Massa took part in the open practice on Monday for the upcoming Granja Viana 500...Massa took the opportunity to make some minor adjustments on his kart and also to contemplate who he would like...

Tags: Felipe Massa, Lucas Di Grassi, Granja Viana, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, French Grand Prix, British Grand Prix, Spanish Grand Prix, allnews, Scuderia Ferrari, Rubens Barrichello, Human Interest

Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 5 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Brazil's decision to adopt voluntary reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions is an indication that the planet's climate change emergency has joined strategic, economic and ideological issues as a new factor on the global political agenda...Copenhagen,...

Tags: Brazilian, Eduardo Viola, Lula da Silva, million tonnes, Dilma Rousseff, emissions targets, co2 emissions, leadership role, greenhouse gas, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Carbon dioxide, Action on climate change, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Climate change, Diplomatic conferences, Carbon finance, Environment

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Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 5 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

 Brazil improved five positions in the annual ranking of perceived corruption released on Tuesday by Transparency International, ranking 75th out of 180 countries.     The higher the country's position, the less corrupt...

Tags: Transparency, Brazil, allnews, Rio de Janeiro, Transparency International

Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 5 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Lethal Weapon" co-star Danny Glover is to marry his longtime Brazilian girlfriend in a December, he told a Rio de Janeiro film festival this week, according to the O Globo newspaper. Glover, 63, said he and teacher Eliane Cavalleiro, 43, would seek to...

Tags: Danny Glover, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Glover, Blindness, Porto Alegre, Fernando Meirelles, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest

Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 6 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Madonna has raised 11 million dollars from Brazilian millionaires for her Raising Malawi Foundation, the daily Rio O Dia reported Monday. The US pop star, who visited Brazil to stroke the country's wealthy into giving, notably won an unspecified pledge...

Tags: Raising Malawi Foundation, Madonna (entertainer), million dollars, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Malawi, Human Interest

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