(AP Photo/Lucas Nunez)Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, wearing sandals, and his eldest sister and first lady Mercedes Lugo, right, attend a mass in Asuncion, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Leftist ex-bisho…
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(AP Photo/Lucas Nunez)Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, wearing sandals, and his eldest sister and first lady Mercedes Lugo, right, attend a mass in Asuncion, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Leftist ex-bisho…
|Brazil, the United States, Japan and Germany progressed to the semifinals of the Olympic women's soccer tournament after winning their quarterfinals on Friday. The Brazilians became the first team int…
|The United States, Brazil and China each earned two places in the quarterfinals of women's beach volleyball tournament at the Beijing Olympic Games on Friday. China's two women's beach volleyball duos…
|Three people were killed and at least four others injured overnight in a shootout between the police and drug dealers in Rio's Vigario Geral shantytown, local police said on Friday. According to the p…
|Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman in Asuncion said Lugo's election win had been seen as a chance to create a new political and economic culture after decades of rule by the Colorado party.
|Leftist ex-bishop Fernando Lugo shoved aside Paraguay's infamous 61-year history of one-party rule as he took office yesterday with promises to end corruption and hunger in the poor South American nat…
|Lugo spoke in Spanish and the indigenous Guarani language, pledging to end the extreme poverty, institutional political corruption and trade in black market goods that defined Paraguay under the Color…
|'The current trend toward lower oil prices is temporary,' said Jose Sergio Gabrielli, president of state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras. 'Prices will rebound.' Gabrielli made the comm…
|(AP Photo/Lucas Nunez)Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, wearing sandals, and his eldest sister and first lady Mercedes Lugo, right, attend a mass in Asuncion, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Leftist ex-bisho…
|SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- World crude oil prices are likely to rebound, and with them the value of shares in Brazilian oil giant Petrobras (PBR), the company's president said Friday. 'The current trend …
|RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The drop in share price of Petrobras, Brazil's state-run oil company, reflects the softening world oil prices rather than investor concerns of talk of a new rival state oil …
|LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Mexican stocks finished higher Friday after the central bank indicated that it may be near the end of its interest rate-tightening cycle, while a slide in energy prices se…
|Asuncion, Paraguay - Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo was sworn in Friday as Paraguay's president, in a historic transfer of power after 61 years of uninterrupted rule by the conservative Co…
|Research results from University of Sao Paulo update understanding of bone research (NewsRx.com) — Researchers detail in 'Bone repair in rat mandible by rhBMP-2 associated with two carriers,' new dat…
|Latin America embodied by Venezuela's Chavez — who frequently tries to use his oil wealth to woo poorer countries in the region into his orbit — and Bolivia's Morales, and the more centrist …
|Fernando Lugo says his impoverished nation "could go up in flames" within months.The former Catholic bishop has made history by ending 61 years of authoritarian one-party rule, but his first task is t…
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|Posted on: Friday, 15 August 2008, 12:00 CDT Yahoo! Brazil is introducing a new and improved version of their homepage, www.yahoo.com.br; and with it, a brand campaign that will look to establish Yah…
|ALYI ) CEO Henryk Dabrowski was recently interviewed by Business News Americas on the Company's plans to implement its wireless e-ticket solutions in Central America, the Caribbean, and the Andean …
|SAO PAULO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer said on Friday it signed a deal with the Chilean Air Force for 12 Super Tucano military planes. Embraer (nyse: ERJ - news - people…
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