Brazil Stocks Fall, Paring Best Month Since May; Bolsa ClimbsBloomberg - Jan 30, 2009Gol, Brazil’s second-biggest airline, slumped 2.5 percent to 10.25 reais. Tam slipped 0.1 percent. “We expect Brazilian air travel to deteriorate from …

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BBC News Release of Colombian hostages set for weekendCNN - Jan 30, 2009BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) — A Colombian delegation, led by a federal senator, has left for Brazil on the first leg of a multiday journey to obtain the release …Colombia Humanitarian Mission to Brazil Prensa LatinaColombia Senator Cordoba Says FARC To Release Hostages in 3 [...]

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Brazzil Magazine Obama to Meet Brazil's Lula in March and Later Travel to BrazilBrazzil Magazine, Los Angeles - Jan 27, 2009Lula reciprocated inviting Obama to visit Brazil. The US leader accepted and although no date was set up, Obama said that he might visit Brasília during the …

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Rio Tinto iron ore train derailed in AustraliaReuters - Jan 29, 2009The trains travel hundreds of miles from Pilbara mines to west coast ports to waiting freighters. Rio said nobody was injured in the incident. …

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CharlotteObserver.com Who in the world is Delmar?CharlotteObserver.com, NC - 57 minutes agoI love to travel.” His next big adventure will be in March to Brazil, where Martha won a Fulbright Fellowship. Delmar began planning weeks ago. …

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Travel globally, but dress locallyRichmond Times Dispatch, VA - 1 hour agoThe top five countries for kidnapping are Mexico, Iraq, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, according to Chubb Group. — From Wire Reports.

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guardian.co.uk Fordlandia, Brazilguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoBlack Tomato can tailor-make trips to Brazil, including Fordlandia (www.blacktomato.co.uk). Local travel agency Santarém Tur offers a two-day riverboat trip …

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Warriors lose heart-breaker to TigersGustine Press-Standard, CA - 8 hours agoTyler Brazil poured in 19 points for the Warriors. Craig Beevers was in double figures with 10, and Adrian Estrada collected six points on the night. …

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Just in Time: Five Winter Vacation BargainsTheStreet.com - 10 hours agoBelo Horizonte/Ouro Preto, Brazil: It's summertime south of the equator, remember. Besides, most of Brazil is in the tropics, where it's always warm. …

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Washington, Jan 31 : Hollywood actress Evangeline Lilly has launched a lingerie line with a noble thought in mind – she plans to raise money for the underprivileged Brazilian kids from its sales.

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London, Jan. 31 : Fearing that his family might become a target of hate, Brazilian football ace Robinho has beefed up security at his home.

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HEDY WEISS Theater Critic/hweiss@suntimes.com Do not delay. You have only two more chances to engage in (and I use those words literally) what is surely one of the most remarkable theater performances…

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The floods which hit southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul since late Wednesday have left 10 people dead, local Civil Defense authorities announced Friday. According to the authorities, four …

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Bolivian leaders believe the nation can prosper from the use of its lithium supply to power electric cars — but the government may erect too many roadblocks.

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BELEM, Brazil, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday that his Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff will represent the ruling Workers' Party to run for the Brazilian pr…

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Two Brazilian military helicopters headed for Colombia Friday where they will participate in an operation for releasing hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed For…

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Gracie died Thursday morning and was buried in the afternoon near his home in the mountain resort town of Petropolis near Rio de Janeiro, according to a short statement posted on the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu …

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — The floods which hit southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul since late Wednesday have left 10 people dead, local Civil Defense authorities announced Friday. …

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BELEM, Brazil : Brazil will not extradite Italian ex-militant Cesare Battisti, despite mounting pressure from Rome, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said here Friday. He made the firm statement aft…

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BRASILIA, Brazil — Preservationists say they are fighting to protect Brasilia's signature skyline designed by legendary architect Oscar Niemeyer – from Oscar Niemeyer himself.The 101-year-old archit…

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) said late Thursday it would sell to Vale the assets of two potash projects for 0 million and an iron ore mine in Brazil for 0 million in an all-cash deal.

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Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto Group is selling mining assets in Argentina, Brazil and Canada to Brazilian competitor Vale Doce for 1.6 billion US dollars in an attempt to reduce its 39 billion debt load …

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Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo speaks to a French development researcher, a US environmental activist, a Peruvian NGO worker, a Belgian union activist and a French development worker about what they ho…

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LA PAZ — El ministro de Salud anunció que los cuarteles serán habilitados para atender a pacientes por la peor epidemia de dengue en Bolivia tras confirmarse cerca de 6.000 casos en lo…

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Four sessions of consecutive advances by Latin American equities came to an end Thursday as investors sifted through another round of poor economic data from the U.S. and took gains off the table.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador's presidential race has tightened, with the leading candidates in a virtual tie and likely facing a runoff election, according to a pol…

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Italy's defence minister has demanded the scrapping of a planned football match against Brazil over its refusal to extradite a convicted murderer. Brazil has granted political asylum to Cesare Battis…

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/article tools – narrow (used with span photos) –> Nowhere in Brazil's more than three million mostly tropical square miles is there a facility devoted to curling, the stone-and-broom sport p…

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NEW YORK, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — ALICE, a 13-episode Brazilian drama series starring Andreia Horta in the title role, comes to the U.S. on HBO Latino [www.hbolatino.com], Friday, Mar…

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The FIFA President made the last stop on his visit to South America in Paraguay on Thursday 29 January. In the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, Joseph S. Blatter attended the 61st edition of the CONMEB…

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Furious at the seizure of a shipment of generics medicine from India to Brazil by the Dutch authorities, the Asian and the South American countries will jointly protest at the WTO against the European…

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(RTTNews) – Bolivia has declared a health emergency with the dengue fever epidemic spreading across most parts of the country as the Central American Latin country on the Pacific coast grapples with …

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(RTTNews) – Friday, mining company Rio Tinto (RTP, RIO.AX, RIO.L) said it agreed to sell its undeveloped potash assets and Brazilian Iron Ore operations to Companhia Vale do Rio Doce SA, Brazil's lar…

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Latin America stocks declined Thursday as news of record unemployment in the U.S. deepened fears of a prolonged global slowdown.Brazil's Ibovespa index dropped 1.5 percent to 39,638, as investors bet …

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B RASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s government and FIFA say soccer’s governing body has agreed to the country’s request to have the 2014 World Cup played in 12 cities rather than 10. …

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Brazil's Supreme Court says the Italian government will get a chance to argue for the extradition of a fugitive militant who was sentenced to life in Italy for political slayings in the 1970s.The cour…

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Brazil's central bank says slowing inflation will allow it to keep cutting its benchmark interest rate from its current 12.75 percent.The bank's monetary policy committee said Thursday that falling co…

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El Salvador has registered 320 murders so far in the first month of this year, an average of 11 murders daily, the country's National Civil Police (PNC) said Thursday. According to information reachin…

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BELEM, Brazil (AP) – South America's leading advocates of socialism got a hero's welcome from 100,000 activists at the mouth of the Amazon River Thursday as they demanded an overhaul of global capital…

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TSG Hoffenheim Days after signing Boubacar Sanogo to replace Vedad Ibisevic, TSG Hoffenheim may be set to strengthen their defense as well with the signing of Brazilian youngster Fabricio.Defender Z…

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Five Latin American presidents are expected to meet in Brazil at the World Social Forum, intended to provide a leftist counterweight to the World Economic Forum this week in Davos, Switzerland.

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(IDM) LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – Bolivian election authorities say the nation's new constitution won 61.5 percent support in a recent referendum, with only a handful of ballots left to count. The Nation…

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Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR) discovered porous rocks believed to hold a large gas deposit in Bolivia, according to a report in Thursday's edition of local business daily …

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-(Dow Jones)- Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR) resumed drilling Wednesday in a key subsalt exploration block in the promising Santos Basin, according to the country's Natio…

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ASUNCION — Un sector de la prensa se quejó el jueves del "curioso hermetismo que rodea últimamente" a las actividades oficiales del presidente Fernando Lugo quien lleva un mes sin habl…

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Rio de Janeiro, Jan 29 : Robinho will remain among the Brazilian players called for national duty in February despite charges of alleged rape against the Manchester City player, said national coach Ca…

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here is a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Latin America in the aftermath of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza — and the most troublesome part of it is that it's often fueled by racist propag…

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Two earthquakes shook on Wednesday the border regions of El Salvador and Guatemala and Ecuador, but there were no reports of casualties or material damage. According to information reaching here from …

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Brazil's government has transferred millions of acres of federally owned land to a northern state in an apparent attempt to defuse tensions between Indians and rice farmers at odds over a vast Amazon …

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Bolivia wants to rebuild strained relations with the United States and hopes to exchange ambassadors with the new U.S. administration soon, the South American nation's foreign minister said Wednesday….

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