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Brazilian business leaders look to Israeli know-how
São Paulo :: Brazil | 24 days ago
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The decision by Brazil's House of Representatives last week to approve a free trade agreement for Israel with Mercosul, the South American free trade area, could have enormous economic consequences for the Jewish state, a member of the delegation traveling...
Tags: Brazil, Israeli, Shimon Peres, Peres Hitler, São Paulo, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Elbit Systems, Israel, Rio de Janeiro, Zionism, Politics, Levant, Republics, Israeli Jews, Kadima, Yitzhak Rabin, Asher Peres, Prime Ministers of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin assassination, Religion Belief, War Conflict
Madonna to help ring in New Year in Rio
Brasília :: Brazil | 25 days ago
Credibility Singer and pop icon Madonna will give a concert in Rio de Janeiro this coming New Year's Eve, Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes announced Friday. The singer will perform at the famous Copacabana Beach, a mecca for more than 2 million partygoers every year. Paes...
Tags: Madonna (entertainer), Brazil, Brasília, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Malawi, Social Issues
Guns, drugs and Jesus
Cape Town :: South Africa | 25 days ago
Credibility I control 15 communities,” boasted the druglord as his shiny 4x4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva (28), better known by the nickname Spiderman. The words “Jesus” and “Christ”...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Spiderman, assault rifle, da coreia, Coreia, complexo da, South Africa, Cape Town, Favela, Poverty, Slums, Brazilian society
Dunga invites Cris to play for Brazil in friendlies
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 25 days ago
Credibility Dunga, the head coach of the Brazilian national soccer team, extended an invitation to Crison Friday to play in the team's up coming friendly matches against England and Oman. Cris will replace the injured fullback, Juan. Juan was unable to make the...
Tags: Brazilian Football Confederation, Crison, England, Oman, Dunga, Juan, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Naldo, Luisￃﾣo, Brazilian footballers, Brazil national football team, allnews, S.L. Benfica, Judo, Tadahiro Nomura, Sport in Japan, Kodokan, Fￃﾡbio Aurￃﾩlio
Smuggling out spiders from Brazil
Spiders are creepy insects and little Miss Muffet was terribly frightened by one as she sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. Now, a Briton has been caught trying to smuggle out live spiders – of all things! Smuggling of animals is a serious...
Tags: spiders, miss muffet, curds, whey, tarantula, Goliath bird eating spider, Brazilian wandering spiders, allnews, Rio de Janeiro, Spider, Brazilian wandering spider, Goliath birdeater, Arachnids, Theraphosidae, Brazil
Rio pledges 'power island' immune from blackouts
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 25 days ago
Credibility Organizers of the 2016 Olympics are pitching host city Rio de Janeiro as a potential "power island" immune from blackouts like the one that left 60 million Brazilians in the dark, though experts questioned Thursday whether a safe energy haven for the...
Tags: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Prosecution, Prosecutor, FAQ, Blackout, Criminal law, Law enforcement in the United States, Local government in the United States, Itaipu, Environment
Englishman arrested in Brazil for carrying 1,000 live spiders
São Paulo :: Brazil | 25 days ago
Credibility Criminal charges were set to be pressed against the man, whose identity was not revealed, and he faced a fine of up to $2.3 million, the authorities stressed.
Tags: Brazil, São Paulo, Environment, Rio de Janeiro, Law Crime, Pet store, Theraphosidae, Tarantula, Spider, Human Interest
Brazil Spreads Concrete Through the Rainforest
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 25 days ago
Credibility While land development, human settlement, and logging are the main sources of deforestation , the bedrock of this global ecocide is the construction of roads which tear through the rainforest habitat, laying down concrete in every direction with each...
Tags: Brazil, Amazon, square kilometres, president luiz, square miles, lula da, inacio lula, amazon deforestation, monitoring deforestation, climate change, Rio de Janeiro, Silva, Furnas, Disaster Accident, Itaipu, Paranￃﾡ, Paranￃﾡ River, Environment, Environment of Brazil, Rainforest, Marina Silva, Afforestation, Luiz Inￃﾡcio Lula da Silva, Deforestation, Forestry, Deforestation in Brazil, Dassault Rafale, JAS 39 Gripen, Fighter aircraft, Saab, Brazilian Air Force, Jet aircraft, Canard aircraft, Carrier-based aircraft
Getting it together at last
Thursday, November 12, 2009 A special report on business and finance in Brazil by Judith Stein and Biodun Iginla, Financial Analysts at the BBC and the Economist Nov 12th 2009 From The Economist print edition Brazil used to be all promise. Now it...
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Blackout blamed on storm
São Paulo :: Brazil | 26 days ago
Credibility A massive blackout across the southern half of Brazil and all of Paraguay this week was caused by a fierce storm shorting transmission lines from a huge binational power plant, Brazil's government said. But the explanation, advanced by Energy Minister...
Tags: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Paraguayan, bad weather
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