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Marina Silva brought impeccable credentials to her post as Brazil’s environment minister: The daughter of a poor Amazon rubber tapper, she was a colleague of slain rain forest defender Chico Mendes.
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The U.S. women’s team will play Brazil, its conqueror in last year’s World Cup, in two exhibition games this summer.
made popular May 15 2008
Fears for the future of the world’s biggest tropical rainforest grew yesterday, after the sudden resignation of Brazil’s environment minister, Marina...
made popular May 15 2008
Brazil’s Environment Minister, Marina Silva, a staunch defender of the Amazon rainforest, has resigned from her post.
In a resignation letter to President Luiz...
made popular May 14 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
Blacks will outnumber whites in Brazil this year for the first time since slavery was abolished, but the income gap between the two groups may take another 50 years to...
made popular May 13 2008
AP, Abaetetuba
Bishop Flavio Giovenale was crushed by the acquittal last week of a rancher accused of ordering the killing of a crusading American nun _ and not just because he...
made popular May 13 2008
AP, Belem
A rancher acquitted of ordering the killing of American nun Dorothy Stang professed admiration for the dead activist and said a key prosecution witness changed his...
made popular May 9 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
In stories May 4-May 8 about a ferry sinking in Brazil, The Associated Press erroneously described the Solimoes River as a tributary of the Amazon River. It is a branch...
made popular May 8 2008
AP, Brussels
InBev SA, the brewer of Stella Artois and Beck’s, posted an unexpected 11 percent drop in its first-quarter profit on Thursday, blaming rising costs for...
made popular May 8 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Rescue workers say they have retrieved another nine bodies from a boat that capsized in northern Brazil, raising the death toll on Wednesday to 41 in one of the worst...
made popular May 7 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Profits for Brazil’s Embraer jet maker rose 8.4 percent in the first quarter amid strong global demand for its mid-size passenger planes and new executive jets,...
made popular May 7 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Brazil’s Embraer jet maker says its first-quarter profits rose 8.4 percent amid strong global demand for its mid-size passenger planes and new executive jets.
made popular May 7 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
An Amazon rancher convicted of ordering the killing of American nun Dorothy Stang has been acquitted in a retrial, a court official said Tuesday.
made popular May 6 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Amazon region rescue workers found two more bodies Monday around a remote jungle town near where a boat ferrying people from a religious festival sank. The discovery...
made popular May 6 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
The confessed killer of American nun Dorothy Stang contradicted earlier testimony, claiming Monday the gun he used did not come from the rancher accused of ordering her...
made popular May 5 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
A rancher convicted of ordering the killing of American nun Dorothy Stang told a jury Monday he played no part in the death of the rain forest defender.
made popular May 5 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
A boat ferrying at least 80 people home from a party sank in Brazil’s Amazon region early Sunday, killing at least 15 and leaving dozens missing, according to...
made popular May 4 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
A boat with 110 people aboard sank in the Brazilian Amazon on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and leaving dozens missing, authorities said.
made popular May 4 2008
AP, Macau
The Olympic torch relay has begun in the Chinese casino city of Macau.
made popular May 3 2008
It was an incongruous sight. King Carl XVI Gustaf, bespectacled monarch of Sweden, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the bush-bearded populist who has governed...
made popular May 3 2008
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Bishop Flavio Giovenale was crushed by the acquittal last week of a rancher accused of ordering the killing of a crusading American nun _ and not just because he...
made popular May 13 2008
AP, Dallas
Texas officials may claim that Amazon.com owes millions in sales taxes on purchases that state residents made from the Internet retailer.
made popular May 9 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
In stories May 4-May 8 about a ferry sinking in Brazil, The Associated Press erroneously described the Solimoes River as a tributary of the Amazon River. It is a branch...
made popular May 8 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Rescue workers say they have retrieved another nine bodies from a boat that capsized in northern Brazil, raising the death toll on Wednesday to 41 in one of the worst...
made popular May 7 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
An Amazon rancher convicted of ordering the killing of American nun Dorothy Stang has been acquitted in a retrial, a court official said Tuesday.
made popular May 6 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Amazon region rescue workers found two more bodies Monday around a remote jungle town near where a boat ferrying people from a religious festival sank. The discovery...
made popular May 6 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
An Amazon farmer who received death threats after reporting illegal logging to authorities was shot to death as he left his house, Brazilian media reported Saturday.
made popular Apr 26 2008
AP, Brasilia
Sixty percent of Brazil could soon be off-limits to foreigners who don’t get special permission to visit the world’s largest tropical wilderness.
made popular Apr 26 2008
AP, Brasilia
Sixty percent of Brazil could soon be off-limits to foreigners under a draft bill designed to protect the world’s largest tropical wilderness from outsiders.
made popular Apr 26 2008
AP, Brasilia
Foreigners who want to visit the Amazon region may soon need permits from Brazil’s military and justice ministry.
made popular Apr 25 2008
AP, Seattle
Eagle-eyed investors are looking past Amazon.com Inc.’s double-digit growth in first-quarter earnings to spot signs that the Web retailer is not immune from...
made popular Apr 24 2008
AP, Seattle
Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. says its first-quarter profit rose 29 percent, helped by solid sales in the U.S. and abroad.
made popular Apr 23 2008
AP, Seattle
Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle has arrived. Again.
made popular Apr 18 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Brazil’s booming economy is shifting into overdrive, with biofuels and deep-water oil providing energy independence and the government collecting enough cash to...
made popular Apr 17 2008
AP, Seattle
Amazon.com Inc.’s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few...
made popular Apr 2 2008
As if Kindle wasn’t enough, here comes the closest competitor to Amazon’s overrated e-Book reader ‘Kindle’ and it’s called JetBook.
I was wondering...
made popular Mar 24 2008
Brazil’s drought in 2005, the worst-ever hitting the Amazon, was caused by global warming instead of the El Nino weather phenomenon as previously thought, the...
made popular Mar 11 2008
AP, Washington
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. spent more than $1.6 million in 2007 to lobby the federal government.
made popular Feb 28 2008
AP, Seattle
Several companies lost access to their own files when Amazon.com Inc.’s pay-as-you-go data storage system went down Friday morning.
made popular Feb 16 2008
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Bishop Flavio Giovenale answers a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Abaetetuba, Brazil, Sunday, May 11, 2008. Bishop Flavio Giovenale was crushed by the acquittal last week of a rancher accused of ordering the killing of Dorothy...
