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Made Popular Oct 29 2009
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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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Filipe, Brasilia
Walls are going up around the hillside slums of Rio de Janeiro, further dividing a city already separated between rich and poor. Beneath the gaze of the statue of...
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Celso Camargo, Campinas
The biggest rivalry that exists between the Brazilians is between paulistas (born in the state of Sao Paulo) and cariocas (born in the state of Rio de Janeiro). When...
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Celso Camargo, Campinas
A new form of violence has emerged and that is bringing panic to the carriers of HIV in Rio de Janeiro. When the bandits discover that someone is carrying the HIV...
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Celso Camargo, Campinas
This is not an article of mine, I just translated it from http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/ult95u427864.shtml Against misuse of organs, Health decided to...
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Larry, Boston
An epidemic of dengue fever has been spreading throughout Rio de Janeiro and the mosquito that is carrying the deadly virus is also spreading panic. Outside the...
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Pratyush, New Delhi
On 07/07/07 in Lisbon, the names of New Seven Wonders of World announced and the 17th-century love monument ‘Taj Mahal’ has found its own place in the elite...
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May 2 2009 by AP0 Comments

Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the “Theater of the Oppressed,” died Saturday. He was 78.

 
 
Apr 29 2009 by AP0 Comments

Reports of debt slavery reached record numbers in Brazil last year, and most of the cases were connected to the nation’s booming sugarcane ethanol sector, according to a report released Wednesday by a watchdog group.

 
 
Apr 15 2009 by AP0 Comments

Likening the global financial crisis to a sinking ship, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lashed out once more Wednesday against rich nations for provoking the world’s economic woes and called for a new economic order based on input from all n

 
 
Mar 17 2009 by AP0 Comments

Where’s Ecuador? Better not ask that question in Brazil.

 
 
Mar 13 2009 by AP0 Comments

A man accused of rape kidnapped his daughter, stole a small plane and buzzed a major city before crashing into the parking lot of a mall, killing himself and his 5-year-old child, police said Friday.

 
 
Mar 13 2009 by AP0 Comments

His meet and greet with the U.S. president was bumped to Saturday, and when the White House announced his official visit, they misspelled his name.

 
 
Mar 12 2009 by AP0 Comments

Britain’s Prince Charles warned on Thursday that mankind has 100 months or less to save the planet from a climate-caused disaster.

 
 
Mar 11 2009 by AP0 Comments

A rancher fighting accusations of ordering the murder of a U.S. nun has now been charged with trying to fraudulently obtain the plot of Amazon rain forest she died trying to defend, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

 
 
Mar 4 2009 by AP0 Comments

A 9-year-old girl who was carrying twins, allegedly after being raped by her stepfather, underwent an abortion Wednesday despite complaints from Brazil’s Roman Catholic church.

 
 
Feb 25 2009 by AP0 Comments

Samba school Salgueiro was crowned champion of Rio’s fiercely competitive Carnival parades on Wednesday, knocking off a powerhouse rival and overcoming a shooting that left three dead outside its headquarters just months ago.

 
 
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