Recife, Brazil News

Brazil's unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent in October, the lowest level of the year, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, or IBGE, said.

Eduardo Sales Recife, Brazil 16 years old Hosts: Sharon and David Jamison Sales was the kicker for the Milaca Wolves football team this year.

Brazilian Romero Britto has created the 2010 edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival's poster, adding to a long list of striking images by famous artists that have made the posters desirable objects among collectors.

Officials from countries fishing for tuna , sharks and other denizens of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas are gathered in Recife, Brazil , where they are wrapping up the 21st annual session of talks under an international agreement aimed at restoring depleted stocks.

The body responsible for managing Atlantic bluefin tuna has decided not to suspend the fishery in response to concerns over dwindling stocks.

According to Oceana, The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas failed to establish adequate management measures at its meeting in Recife, Brazil this week for commercially valuable bluefin tuna and sharks, whose populations have plummeted over recent decades.

Environmentalists have warned bluefin tuna are on their way to extinction after a international meeting of fishery ministry officials trimmed catch quotas but upheld continued hauls of the fish, prized in sushi dishes.

As scientists gather in Recife, Brazil, to agree on quotas for the Atlantic and Mediterranean stocks of tuna and swordfish in the latest round of fisheries talks, the RSPB and BirdLife International are reminding delegates that at least 37 species of seabird are at risk from these fisheries.

The lights flickered on and off and the popular soap opera showing on a TV screen in the corner suddenly vanished.

Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 10:02 am Press Release: US Department of State - Background Note Background Note: Brazil November 2009 Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME: Federative Republic of Brazil Geography Area: 8,511,965 sq.

But on the eve of the 10 day summit Ms. Peel, who has been the president of The Billfish Foundation for over a decade, is not highly optimistic any strong changes will be made among the attending countries to conservation of tuna and related species.

Fishing nations must cut the amount of Atlantic bluefin tuna they catch and protect porbeagle and thresher sharks, European fisheries commissioner Joe Borg said on Friday ahead of international talks.

Nov. 5, 2009 -- The Prevention Research Center in St. Louis is launching a multinational research project focused on preventing the leading causes of death in Hispanics in the United States and Latin America.

The biography of a Brazilian novelist 'who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf.' By Roger Gathman FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Imagine that Sylvia Plath, aside from writing poetry and "The Bell Jar," also penned beauty tips for Cosmopolitan and ghost wrote an advice column under Marilyn Monroe's name for ...

New Jersey thrash metal veterans Overkill have scheduled the following South American tour dates : 03/16 - Santiago De Chile, Chile - Teatro Teleton 03/18 - Porto Alegre, Brazil - Opiniao 03/19 - Recife, Brazil - Clube Portugues do Recife 03/20 - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Via Marques The members of Overkill took part in a press conference on July 9, 2009 ...

In August 2007, Germany's most successful music export worldwide, SCORPIONS , ventured deep into the Brazilian jungle for a sold-out show in front of 40,000 enthusiastic fans the band played a concert in Manaus, the metropolis on the Amazon river.

While U.S. attention has focused on the raging drug war just south of the border in Mexico, the battle to control drugs in Brazil is taking more lives.

This file photograph released by the Brazilian Navy shows the patrol boat Grajau, one of the ships involved in the search for the Air France AirBus 330 carrying 228 people that disappeared Monday over the Atlantic Ocean.

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Today both NOAA and the Department of the Interior issued statements supporting a CITES listing for the species.