London, Aug.20 : Chelsea's Brazilian coach Phil Scolari gave a personal reference to help John Terry retain the England captaincy, reports The Sun.

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ArcelorMittal, the world's leading steel company, Wednesday said it has agreed to buy the iron ore mining company London Mining Brasil for 0 million.

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Bolivian river dolphin is a separate species from the Amazon river dolphin, scientists announced recently. Thousands of years ago a powerful drought dried up Brazil's Madeira River, causing a "radi…

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Brazil's Minister of Justice Tarso Genro approved Tuesday night the extradition of Colombian drug dealer Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia to the United States, local media reported Wednesday. The necessary …

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Demonstrators opposing the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales Wednesday blocked three highways connecting the east and west of the country. According to news reaching here from La Paz, admin…

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Rio's Botafogo and Minas Gerais Cruzeiro will face each other in a Brazilian League clash of titans on Wednesday night in Rio's Joao Havelange stadium. Both teams are having great results in the tourn…

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The Athens Games men's volleyball final is expected to be repeated four years later in Beijing, when the world's No. 1 Brazil takes on Italy in the semifinals on Friday. The two volleyball titans set …

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staff NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK " Petrobras has signed a four-year frame agreement with Wellstream do Brasil Industria e Servicos Ltda. to procure 2 to 9 in. (6.35 to 25 cm) flowlines and risers between…

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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - Major Latin American markets rose Wednesday, with a surge in resource shares supporting a more than 3% jump in Brazilian stocks.

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-(Dow Jones)- Shareholders of rival Brazilian software companies Totvs SA (TOTS3.BR) and Datasul SA (DSUL3.BR) have approved a merger of their companies, the companies said Wednesday in a joint stat…

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A match for third place is often billed as the game that neither coaches nor players want to take part in. However, when Belgium and Brazil meet in Shanghai on Friday, a bronze medal and a place in Ol…

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SAO GANCALO DO AMARANTE, Brazil, Aug 20 (Reuters) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday he had not decided whether to create a new state-run oil company to manage oil production from…

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Brazil's government has approved construction of one of two dams planned in the Amazon, but possible legal challenges and a dispute between contractors threaten to delay both projects. Granting the li…

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Woodward and MPC Products Corporation have entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement under which Woodward would acquire MPC in a transaction valued at approximately 3 million. MPC, a priva…

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- Portugal Telecom has formed a partnership with TV Globo Portugal, the local division of Brazilian media group TV Globo, under which the telco will add the channel TV Globo to its 'Meo' IPTV service,…

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LA PAZ: Demonstrators opposed to socialist reforms imposed by President Evo Morales on Wednesday threw up roadblocks in parts of eastern Bolivia, extending protests expressed in a strike the day befor…

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A search for either a third party or joint venture partner was hampered by the stagnant diamond market. 'Prospective project economics have weakened markedly since commencement of the option agreement…

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ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Leftist ex-bishop Fernando Lugo shoved aside Paraguay's infamous 61-year history of one-party rule as he took office Friday with promises to end corruption and hunger in the…

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Brazil is considering a second, proposed sovereign-wealth fund to invest rising oil income overseas, as many of the world's top oil powers have done.Energy Minister Edison Lobao said Tuesday that Braz…

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Brazilians hung their heads in shame in the wake of their Olympic football team's 3-0 drubbing from archrival Argentina on Tuesday.The crowds gathered around TVs in bars and juice stands across Rio de…

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Two nations tipped to reach the 2010 World Cup finals, one from South America and one from the Middle East, face each other Wednesday for a warmup match in the heart of Europe.For continental front-ru…

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Brazilian state-owned energy firm, Petrobras and India's largest polymer firm, Reliance industries Ltd. (RIL) are in discussions for a possible joint venture involving construction of a petrochem unit…

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Brazil is partnering with a Barbados businessman in a proposal to build a US million ethanol plant near the capital.Etanol de Costa Rica SA says the plant would produce about 132 million gallons (5…

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BRASILIA: Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras on Tuesday announced it would invest 11.1 billion dollars in building a refinery in the northeast state of Ceara. The facility, which is scheduled to…

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ALYI ) CEO Henryk Dabrowski yesterday conducted a financial review Webcast to discuss the second quarter 2008 and year-to-date earnings results, an update on operations, the company's E-ticketing s…

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Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced that Petrobas, the second largest company in Latin America, is sending a team from Brazil to …

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Brazilians hung their heads in shame in the wake of their Olympic football team's 3-0 drubbing from archrival Argentina on Tuesday.The crowds gathered around TVs in bars and juice stands across Rio de…

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Double frustration for Lula: no Olympic goal and KO from Argentina The team coached by Dunga suffered a humiliating defeat in the semifinals of the Olympics and is another failed attempt in the race t…

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Now that a combination of big-budget blockbusters and sunstroke has sapped our attention spans, we feel violently resistant to sitting still in the dark for the last few weeks of summer. But televisio…

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FOURTEEN farm workers in Brazil returning home from a coffee harvest were killed today and another 19 injured when the truck they were travelling in crashed, local media reported. 'Everything indicate…

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Luxembourg - ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel company, announced Wednesday that it was expanding its operations in Brazil with the acquisition of London Mining Brasil for about 810 million dol…

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Skirmishes are reported between supporters of the strike, called by leaders of autonomy-seeking states, and loyalists of leftist President Evo Morales.

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Greetings from Brazil. Iâ??m here with the Brasil Música & Artes, the Brazilian music export group, taking part in their Comprador & Imagem Project. This involves a group of international …

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In an article for the New Statesman, John Pilger argues that an unreported war is being waged by the United States, and Britain, to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the majori…

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Here's today's front page of Peru's daily national, "La Republica". The top photo shows the celebrations in Santa Cruz last night. The bottom photo was taken at the march in La Paz /El Alto yesterday …

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Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft maker, will on Saturday announce an agreement with the Portuguese government to invest €148m in its first European industrial plants, which will export complex struct…

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he has never been as angry as he was the moment when he saw the failure of the Brazilian football team against Argentina at the Beijing Olympics, loc…

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Argentine former soccer player Diego Maradona said on Tuesday that since long time ago he did not see "a Brazilian (soccer team) so skimpy and defensive," when referring to the semifinals so…

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) said Wednesday that it will buy London Mining South American from London Mining for 4 million. ArcelorMittal will also take on intergroup loans from London Mining of around million. The iro…

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The U.S. women's volleyball team defeated Italy in five sets Tuesday to advance to the semifinal round against Cuba.The United States got off to a slow start but prevailed 20-25, 25-21, 19-25, 25-18, …

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No private parties will participate in the discussion about whether Brazil will change its oil exploitation regulations for the pre-salt layer oil fields, an official of the state-owned oil giant Petr…

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Brazil´s Ronaldinho (right) vies with Argentina´s Fernando Gago in Beijing on August 19. Besieged Brazil coach Carlos Dunga sees a continuing role for Ronaldinho in his country´s 2010 World Cup cam…

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Disgruntled hackers have targeted the Brazilian Olympic Committee's Web site to complain about the country's poor performance at the Beijing Games.The hackers replaced regular content with criticisms …

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Defending champions Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego were knocked out of the Olympic beach volleyball on Wednesday, leaving fellow Brazilians Marcio Araujo and Fabio Luiz Magalhaes …

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Fourteen farm workers in Brazil, returning home from a coffee harvest, were killed and another 19 injured when the truck they were traveling in crashed, local media reported. "Everything indicates th…

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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Gains from energy and material shares helped Brazilian stocks edge higher Tuesday, while Mexican equities ran out of steam and posted their second straight loss.

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