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TENS of thousands of Amazonians are suing Chevron, the American oil company, for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental cases in history.
The Ecuadorean claimants said the company illegally dumped toxic waste...
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Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has arrived in Brazil this Wednesday night. He already had dinner with Brazilian president Luiz...
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Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight...
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On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur...
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Talking in Rome during a food security conference, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva complained that the leaders of the First World give little attention...
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A private university in Brazil said Tuesday that because of negative public reaction, it reversed a decision to expel a student who wore a short dress to class, but the...
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Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For...
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The animals were packed into individual boxes and locked in two cases that had been checked as baggage, a police official said.
The live cargo was discovered on...
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Latin America has become the battleground for competing Middle East powers, whose leaders are criss-crossing the continent seeking support from an increasingly...
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A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police...
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The growing number of police killings of suspected criminals in Rio de Janeiro’s war on drugs is linked to bonuses now paid to “brave” police...
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Also human life is short, kaleidoscope of history-in-making is so speedy changing that last seventy years accomplished events lasting centuries previously: changing...
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A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class – publicly accusing her Sunday of...
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“If you add them all up I control 15 communities,” boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4×4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro....
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Brazil’s Environment minister, Carlos Minc, is celebrating the pace of Brazilian deforestation. The last numbers released by the National Institute of Space...
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A number of events has projected Brazil into the headlines of international news, besides the traditional stories about violence, natural catastrophes or environmental...
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There was a love fest this Friday between presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Venezuelan Hugo Chavez during a visit the Brazilian leader paid to...
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What I am the most wondering at is the short-seeing of an Islamist danger infiltrating a traditionally Catholic region Brazil is.
Filling a gap of info covering an...
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An Indian tribe in Brazil has found at least nine survivors after a plane came down deep in the Amazon jungle, the Brazilian air force says.
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Brazil’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved Venezuela’s request to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur.
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Brazilian police on Wednesday announced the capture of 648 kg of marijuana in the southern state of Parana.
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Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For...
made popular Nov 14 2009
The Brazilian government has unveiled plans to ban sugar cane plantations in environmentally sensitive areas.
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The Amazon has always been Brazil’s version of the Wild West. Here’s one example why.
Brazilian police are investigating a state congressman and former...
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José Marcolini, a farmer here, has a permit from the Brazilian government to raze 12,500 acres of rain forest this year to create highly profitable new soy...
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Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the...
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Cutting down Amazon forest for cattle and soy does not bring long-term economic progress, researchers say.
A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that...
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The South American country of Peru is in a state of emergency. For four days, National Police forces have engaged Amazonian Indians in the peasant town of Bagua Grande....
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She remembers the spot in the hallway where her father said, “They shot me,” then fell into the arms of his wife.
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Brazil is filing criminal charges against 81 people accused of being the biggest destroyers of the Amazon rain forest.
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The Amazon is one of the richest areas of the world in animal and plant diversity. There can be more plant species in one hectare of Amazon rainforest than there are in...
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The Amazon is being deforested more than three times as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines...
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A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is...
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A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by satellite...
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Roads and canals connected walled cities and villages. The communities were laid out around central plazas. Nearby, smaller settlements focused on agriculture and fish...
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Few legal battles have been more exotic than the lawsuit tried over the past five years in a steamy jungle courtroom in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest.
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After the announcement of Diablo III, Amazon has had a massive spike of requests for the Diablo II set. The game has risen to their bestselling list pretty quickly. The...
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There is one question that arose a few times here and that became a real debate: in what extent the banks, in time to adopt rural credits, are responsible for the...
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Hoax news from press photographer about lost Amazon tribe of warriors. It is fun or irresponsible journalism in the name of fun or attention seeking acts.
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Even as hundreds of other dotcoms fell by the wayside at the turn of the century, these three made it through the great internet crisis. Their fates have reflected the...
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