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Brazil will spend US$160 million by the end of next year on the development of a nuclear-propelled submarine to protect the oil reserves found recently off its coast, the defense minister said Friday.
More than 200 oil-slicked penguins have washed up dead on the beaches of a popular Brazilian resort, and officials say they are searching for a cause.
The Japanese firm Modec said Tuesday that it won a contract with Petrobras to build a floating production and storage facility that will drill for oil off the coast of Brazil in the nation’s giant Tupi field.
The president of Brazil’s state-run oil company says the United States must exploit offshore resources while limiting environmental impact.
Oil exploration in the Amazon rain forest represents the latest, perhaps greatest, threat to preserving what remains of the world’s largest remaining tropical wilderness, scientists said Wednesday.
Two men convicted in the 2005 killing of American nun and rainforest defender Dorothy Stang will be allowed to spend Brazilian Fathers’ day at home, court officials said Thursday.
Brazil’s airport workers union is threatening to start a general strike at midnight Tuesday to demand a 10.56 percent wage increase and other benefits.
A Brazilian government laboratory said Monday it will begin producing child-sized doses of a drug commonly used to treat Chagas disease, which kills thousands of people each year across the Americas.The Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Pernambuco said the...
Brazilian police say at least eight alleged drug traffickers were killed during a raid in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown.A Rio de Janeiro state police spokeswoman says officers were met by gunfire when they arrived at the Minha Deusa slum.The spokeswoman...
An unusual number of dead and live penguins, most of them young ones, have been washed ashore on the beaches of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil, more than 3,500 kilometers north of the Strait of Magellan near the southern end of south America. Over 400 dead...
Top models like Gisele Bundchen walked the ramp wearing designs of Mara Mac, Colcci collection and many more, during the Fashion Rio in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. This fashion show marked the part of Autumn Winter 2008 collection. Have...
A land of soccer and samba, Brazil was struggling to reduce its huge income and social gap until now. A recent study has revealed that the largest South American nation is one of the very few developing nations to have been able to reduce its economic...
The 97,000-seater Maracana Stadium manifested the closing ceremony of the XV 2007 Pan American Games scheduled from July 13 to July 29, venued in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Gymnast, Alexandra Orlando Canada’s leading star with three gold medals, carried...
This is a war. My granddaughter was hit by a bullet in her home,
a resident of German Complex slum area of Rio de Janeiro, also called Alemao, exclaimed. The war he talks about is between crack units of Brazilian police and drug gangs of the...
Ailton Lopes Moreira, a Brazilian engineer,was walking to a Rio de Janeiro supermarket with his wife when he suddenly collapsed on the pavement. Only after an ambulance arrived did the wife realise that he had been shot by a stray bullet. He died later....
With the Brazil Carnival round the corner and Rio de Janeiro in full swings, the sex industry in the city expects thousands of tourists during the Carnival festivities. But the government seems cynical about the spreading of STDs and AIDS.
In order...
The carnival is a wild, wacky, frivolous, fantastic display of endless parades, balls and parties. It reflects the spirit of the Brazilian people and the marvelous city of Rio de Janeiro comes alive with color and music.
An exotic exhibitionist...
Chicago or Los Angeles - Can any of the two gain the required international support significant for the U.S. to have the honor of hosting the mega summer sporting carnival in 2016?
The U.S. Olympic Committee has shown intentions to bid for the 2016...
Rio de Janeiro is a city in Brazil that has every possible reason to be seen once in a lifetime-some because of its unmatched geographical formations and some due to the Brazilian passion for modern architecture that resulted in invention of striking...
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Sergio Gabrielli, president of Brazil’s state-run oil company Pretrobras, gestures during a news conference in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. Gabrielli claims that Petrobras would significantly reduce the environmental risk at its offshore...
