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Faced with the world’s most important oil discovery in years, the Brazilian government is seeking to step back from more than a decade of close cooperation with foreign oil companies and more directly control the extraction itself.
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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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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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What I am the most wondering at is the short-seeing of an Islamist danger infiltrating a traditionally Catholic region Brazil is.
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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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Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been sheltering since September in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras’ capital Tegucigalpa. The de facto leaders of...
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The world ranking for freedom of press in 175 countries as reported by French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), earlier this month, has some surprises. Brazil went...
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is now one of the strongest bastions of agribusiness on a global level. The world’s tenth largest economy, Brazil is now the nation which suffers the greatest...
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Brazilian-American Maria Petrúcia Ribeiro da Silva, 68, died soon after arriving in Rio de Janeiro from New York aboard TAM Airlines. Despite warnings about her...
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At least five inmates have burned to death in a fire at a prison in north-eastern Brazil, officials say.
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All the bureaucracy and corruption the world knows about that plagues Brazilian life and the economy in particular is preventing Brazil from becoming the main port of...
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Just two weeks ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said between delirious sobs in Copenhagen that the International Olympic Committee’s decision to...
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Although there are different evaluations of how much impact the newly House-approved Statute of Racial Equality will have on the reality of racism in Brazil, the...
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Police chiefs in Rio de Janeiro yesterday mobilised an additional 4,500 officers in areas of the city that were plunged into violent chaos all day Saturday as rival...
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Nigerians are not left apart in celebrating with Ghana for their victory over Brazil today. The very unfortunate that Nigeria hope to carry the Cup this year, Eagle...
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The recently signed agreements between Brazil and France are about much more than the purchase of armaments. They indicate the creation of a military industrial...
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There seems to be the suggestion in New Zealand that Shell and even possibly other oil companies desire to pull out of the “service station” industry. One ponders...
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Eike Batista said at the beginning of this year that he would overcome the wealth of Bill Gates. In fact, this is a dream, however, the actions of the brazilian...
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Senate Republicans blocked a proposal Tuesday to tax the windfall profits of the largest oil companies, despite pleas by Democratic leaders to use the measure to...
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Coming off the heels of a similar and smaller proposal by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama today announced a plan to tax Oil company profits.
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