A former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after being identified as John McCain's lover 51 years ago.Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she is the woman the Republican presidential…
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Archive for September 22nd, 2008
Cinco desaparecidos por lluvias en El Salvador
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
Las autoridades alertaron el lunes a la población ante pronósticos de incrementos de aguaceros que en las últimas horas han dejado al menos cinco desaparecidos, entre ellos cuatro…
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Brazilian stocks fall on US bailout plan
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
Brazilian stocks fell nearly 3 percent Monday after the United States announced a US0 billion (euro492 billion) bailout package to rescue teetering financial institutions.Sao Paulo's Ibovespa index…
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Brazil Booms by Going Lula
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
That kind of good fortune, divine or not, has helped Lula, 62, a former union leader, become the country's most popular President in half a century. Even without the oil find which could make B…
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World Congress III Against The Sexual Exploitation Of Children & Adolescents To Take Place In Rio De Janeiro In November
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
0 posts What The World Congress III will mobilize heads of State, government officials, experts and thousands of activists to move forward the global agenda to stop the sexual exploitation of children…
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Brazilian wins fame as McCain
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
Register for Your Views RIO DE JANIERO - A former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after being identified as John McCain's lover 51 years ago.Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she…
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South American leaders to meet on Bolivia crisis
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Leaders from several South American nations will meet in New York this week to discuss resolving the political crisis in impoverished Bolivia, Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro F…
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Brazil to sign military cooperation treaty with France
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim confirmed on Monday that the country will sign a military cooperation treaty with France in December. The treaty, to be si…
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Brazil gunmen kill 15 including alleged trafficker
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
You Report SAO PAULO, BRAZIL (AP) - Police say hooded gunmen have killed 15 people on an alleged drug trafficker's ranch in southern Brazil. Federal police officer Claudio Cesar says five assailants …
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Missionaries accuse Brazil of allowing infanticide
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
BRASILIA, Brazil — Evangelical Christian missionaries have launched a campaign against what they claim is the widespread practice of infanticide among Amazonian Indians. The missionaries, associ…
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Officers who shot Brazilian
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
THE police officers who shot Jean Charles de Menezes were convinced he was a suicide bomber who could be stopped only by an "instant killing", an inquest heard yesterday.
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Brazilian claims to be John McCain
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
A former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after claiming she was John McCain's lover 51 years ago.Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she is the woman the Republican presidential ca…
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Native Groups Express Solidarity with Bolivian Leader
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
QUITO, Sep 22 (IPS) - Indigenous organisations from several countries in Latin America declared their solidarity with Bolivian President Evo Morales with respect to the crisis in his country, and are …
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Brazilian model is McCain
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
A former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after being identified as John McCain's lover 51 years ago.Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she is the woman the Republican presidential…
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Brazil, Argentina Slammed As Financial sector Fears Accelerate
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
Equity markets across Latin America suffered a broad-based sell-off Wednesday amid growing anxiety about the sea change in the U.S. financial sector and ever-tightening credit conditions.
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Regional Specialists Offer Views on Causes for Unrest in Bolivia
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
Washington — Latin America specialists offered America.gov varying views on the causes behind recent unrest in Bolivia. Former State Department official Roger Noriega said Bolivia is a country with…
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Fifa unable to shake off Qatar Brazilian controversy
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
Bangkok: Soccer's world governing body Fifa has found itself tangled in a legal mess after the authority absolved Qatar of any blame for fielding an ineligible player in a World Cup qualifier. Fifa's …
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Brazil Wants Its Soccer Team Back
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
Futebol, or soccer, has for a half century been the very heartbeat of Brazilian national pride as generation after generation of exquisitely talented players has donned the national team's canary-yell…
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Brazil Petrobras To Search For Subsalt Oil In Angola -Paper
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
in 2009. "It's possible that we could also discover oil there and, starting with seismic tests, we could know whether it's worth exploring the African subsalt layer," Awad said. According to geologi…
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Brazilian community house hunting for blinded bystander, family
Posted in September 22nd, 2008
Calgary's Brazilian community is looking for accommodations for the family of a foreign student blinded after a downtown shooting. Jose Ribamar Ribeiro Neto's family arrived in Calgary Sunday from Fo…
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