BRASILIA, Tuesday 30 November 2010 (Bernama) — Brazil's oil and gas corporation Petrobras announced the discovery of a new crude deposit in the Amazon region where it is developing large natural gas …

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FIFA executive members were involved in corruption.The BBC on Monday aired a programme in which they claimed that Brazilian football boss Ricardo Teixera, CONMEBOL president Nicolas Leoz, as well as t…

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BRASILIA, Nov 30 (BERNAMA-NNN-MERCOPRESS) – Brazil's president-elect Dilma Rousseff has confirmed President Lula da Silva's international affairs special advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia in his post. T…

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* Recovery complicated by U.S., Europe economies * Incoming govt to largely maintain previous policies * To keep inflation in check By James Pomfret HONG KONG, Nov 30 – Brazil, Latin America's…

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- Rio Tinto Alcan plans to spend .5 billion to build an aluminum plant in Paraguay that will produce an estimated 670,000 tonnes a year, the project manager said on Monday, raising the company's in…

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"I would like that every father and mother in the country today look at their daughters and say: 'Yes, the woman can'." No one in this political moment in Brazil can utter these words with more author…

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(CNN) — Soldiers and police will remain in the Alemao favela complex in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, until a more permanent policing solution can be put in place, the local governor said Monday, …

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Brazil's central government registered a primary surplus of 63.4 billion reais (36.7 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 10 months of 2010, up 135.6 percent from the same period last year, the Treasury…

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Police scoured sewers under Rio's sprawling slums for hundreds of drug traffickers who fled an unprecedented military onslaught on the favelas that netted Brazil's biggest seizure of marijuana. With …

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RIO DE JANEIRO — To the police who raided Vila Cruzeiro shantytown, it was a fortress for heavily armed drug dealers. To tens of thousands of ordinary citizens, it was home. Kids went to school …

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Dilma Rousseff assembled her new economic team on Wednesday, nominating Alexandre Antonio Tombini, left, an economist and Central Bank official, to succeed Henrique Meirelles as head of the Central Ba…

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Brazil is on guard against potential terrorist threats, but denies terrorism is a problem in the South American country, U.S. officials said in confidential diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. In…

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President of the Brazilian Confederation of Soccer (CBF), Ricardo Teixeira guaranteed on Monday that the country will indeed carry twelve locations as host cities for the 2014 World Cup.Despite delaye…

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You can visit the best places in South America and Argentina with your air pass. This air pass lets you combine international and domestic destinations on Aerolineas Argentinas and Austral flights…

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In a series of documents dated between 2005 and 2009, U.S. diplomats regularly reported on the South American heavyweight's effort to distance itself from what it sees as an "overly aggressive&qu…

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Brazilian government controlled oil and gas corporation Petrobras announced the discovery of a new crude deposit in the Amazon region, where the energy company already is developing large natural gas …

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-(Dow Jones)- Rio Tinto Alcan, a subsidiary of U.K.-based Rio Tinto Ltd. (RIO, RIO.LN), has seen its estimated cost for a potential aluminum smelter project in

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Zenit.org ).- A 28-year-old priest who was ordained less than three months ago was killed last week in Brazil. The apparent motive was robbery. Father Bernardo Muniz Rabelo Amaral was shot in the neck…

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U.S. Embassy in Asuncion asks diplomats to collect information "on the presence, intentions, plans and activities of terrorist groups, facilitators, and support networks – including, but not limited t…

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The Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Police and soldiers charged into Rio's most dangerous slum at daybreak Sunday, seizing the bastion of the city's biggest drug gang in a battle to make the…

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Australia's Matildas celebrate their Asian Cup win (AAP). Australia's Matildas have been drawn with Brazil, first-time finalist Equatorial Guinea and Norway in Group D for next year's Women's World …

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29/11/2010BELGRADE, Serbia — Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim is arriving on Monday (November 29th) for talks in Belgrade with Serbian counterpart Dragan Sutanovac. The two officials will sign…

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In the award-winning “Virtuous Cycle using Fusabond®” program, agrochemical multilayer bottles are recycled into high-value industrial applications – shown here in flexible corrugated…

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Paraguay were asked to obtain intimate details about Paraguayan presidential candidates, including iris scans, fingerprints and DNA, according to the latest

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 29 (UPI) — Brazil is investing heavily in its aviation industry and hopes to become a contender for a significant share of the Airbus-Boeing market already crowded with rival man…

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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Stocks in Brazil fell Monday, weighed in part by the prospect of higher interest rates as inflationary pressures ramped up. Stocks across Latin America were also rid…

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La Paz – WikiLeaks revelations show that officials of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Agency for International Development (USAID) carried out espionage tasks in Bolivia, Bolivian…

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Editor's note: There is one photo that accompanies this press release. On Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 10:30am, lawyers for the widow of a community leader who was shot and hacked to death in an un…

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Analyst Report ), a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, recently delivered another solid quarter, recording double-digit sales growth due to strong volume gains in several markets, particularly in the…

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* Weekend raid could mark turning point for Rio violence * Crime costs Brazil billions a year in lost investment This weekend's scenes of urban warfare in Rio de Janeiro may prove to be a crucial …

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(RTTNews) – Outstanding loans in Brazilian banks rose 1.9% month-on-month to BRL 1.65 billion in October compared to 1.8% increase in the previous month, the central bank said Monday. Year-on-year, o…

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SAO PAULO – A 19-year-old Brazilian man has died of head injuries after being repeatedly hit by iron bars during a brawl between dozens of rival soccer fans.

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DGIN ) today announced that it has begun discussions with EXE Financial out of Panama and Ecuador to extend distribution reach into the Latin and South American markets with its Premium Finance, IRMA …

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The #2 Vitaphone Maserati provided a home victory for Brazil yesterday when Enrique Bernoldi and new-comer Xandi Negrao came home ahead of the Aston Martin of Darren Turner and Thomas Enge. The Corv…

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Another 200kg of cocaine was also seized in the area, reports said. "This conquest is a decisive step forward for our public safety policy," Rio state Governor Sergio Cabral told TV Globo. &…

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Calmena Energy Services Inc. ("Calmena" or the "Company") (TSX:CEZ) is pleased to announce it has acquired a contract to provide heliportable drilling services for Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. ("Petrobras…

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Mario Jardel, the renowned Brazilian football player, will not sign a new contract with Bulgarian football team of Cherno More (Varna) due to the harsh winter conditions in the country. "The club off…

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"); } The new facility will be the sixth float line owned by Cebrace Cristal Plano Ltda, a joint venture between Saint-Gobain Glass and NSG Group in Brazil. The project will enable Cebrace to …

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In early November, 2010, Siemens VAI Metals Technologies started up the LD (BOF) converter and continuous slab caster of the second production line of the ThyssenKrupp CSA Siderùrgica do Atlântico s…

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Nov 29, 2010 – 01:40 – WAM Abu Dhabi, Nov 29th, 2010 (WAM) — Minister of Labour Saqr Ghobash Saeed Ghobash yesterday evening attended a reception hosted by the Brazilian ambassador to the UAE, Raul C…

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“A criminal without home, without a gun, without territory, a criminal without means to trade is much less of a criminal than he was before,” he told a post-operation press conference. The …

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Head coach of the Fluminense soccer team, Muricy Ramalho, claimed on Sunday that winning the 2010 Brazilian Championship would not make up for his decision to reject the offer to coach the Brazilian n…

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BRASILIA — Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, who is due to arrive here on Monday, says that his country looks to strengthen ties with Serbia. "Brazil has made efforts to expand its particip…

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Armed police in Rio de Janeiro claimed on Sunday to have defeated drugs gangs of up to 600 men who waged a week-long campaign of violence across two of the city's slums that threatened the city's im…

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Today is Sunday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2010. There are 33 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 28, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the

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Police in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro have moved into the Alemao shantytown in the latest of series of operations aimed at pushing members of a drug gang out of the slums. About 600 drug gang…

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Rio police backed by helicopters and armored vehicles started storming a shantytown complex long held by traffickers on Sunday, slowly moving their way through small alleys amid heavy gunfire. Black-c…

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Globe and Mail Obama, echoing GOP critics, calls for pay freezeLos Angeles TimesWASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday proposed a freeze on federal workers' pay, an unexpected announcement that represented the first in a series of White House moves to seize the …Was Obama triangulating on pay freeze?PoliticoPres. Obama Proposes Federal Worker Pay FreezeABC NewsObama [...]

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Fox11online.com Armed Student Reportedly Holding High School Classroom Hostage in WisconsinFox NewsDEVELOPING: Authorities are investigating reports of an armed student holding a classroom hostage at a high school in Wisconsin. Police are on scene and no injuries are reported at this time, Marinette County Emergency Management said in a news release …Wisconsin authorities: Student holding [...]

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Telegraph.co.uk China 'ready to abandon North Korea'The GuardianChina has signalled its readiness to accept Korean reunification and is privately distancing itself from the North Korean regime, according to leaked US embassy cables that reveal senior Beijing figures regard their official ally as a "spoiled child". …China 'Ready To Abandon N Korea'Sky NewsChina would accept united [...]

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