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Lights return following Brazil blackout
... a domino effect that rippled across the region. Lights twinkled back on along Rio's Copacabana beach, in South America's largest city of Sao Paulo and in Paraguay's sleepy capital of Asuncion. But some traffic lights were still out in both Rio and ... Comment?
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Massive blackout leaves Brazil on edge
SAO PAULO: A blackout across much of southern Brazil overnight plunged tens of millions of residents in the country's biggest cities into a state of anxiety and raised questions Wednesday over national energy security. Comment?
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Lights back in Brazil after outage hits up to 60M
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... a domino effect that rippled across the region. Lights twinkled back on along Rio's Copacabana beach, in South America's largest city of Sao Paulo and in Paraguay's sleepy capital of Asuncion. But some traffic lights were still out in both Rio and ... Comment?
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Outage leaves tens of millions without power in Brazil, Paraguay
A major electricity outage left tens of millions of people in Brazil's two largest cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro without power on Tuesday night due to problems at the Itaipu dam. Comment?
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Colombian president seeks business confidence in face of crisis
Colombia would focus on building the confidence needed to attract investment and keep markets open in the face of its collapsed trade, President Alvaro Uribe told the closing plenary session of the Mexico Business Summit on Tuesday. Comment?
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Missed clues?...Saluting troops...Meeting on Afghanistan...
Missed clues?...Saluting troops...Meeting on Afghanistan Washington There's finger-pointing in Washington about whether investigators missed clues that could have headed off last week's deadly rampage at Fort Hood, Texas . Comment?
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BRAZIL: Leading Ladies Give Gender Slant to Campaign
By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 9 - With the possible participation of three high-profile women candidates in Brazil's 2010 presidential elections, the irruption of gender issues in the campaign in Latin America's largest democracy seems inevitable. Comment?
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Brazil Growing at Annual Rate of 5%, Government Says
Brazil's economy is growing at an annual rate of 5 percent after being in a recession until the first quarter of this year, and it could end 2009 with growth of 1 percent, Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Tuesday. Comment?
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Guatemalan Police Seize Thousands of Pseudoephedrine Tablets
Drug enforcement agents seized 475,000 tablets of pseudoephedrine - the key ingredient in methamphetamine - at a warehouse Tuesday near Guatemala City's La Aurora International Airport, police said. Comment?
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Israeli president starts official visit to Brazil
Israeli President Shimon Peres began on Tuesday a six-day official visit to Brazil. Comment?
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The night the lights went out
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The lights flickered on and off and the popular soap opera showing on a TV screen in the corner suddenly vanished. Comment?
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A power blackout in Brazil left tens of millions of people sitting by candlelight, after plunging Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro into darkness. Comment?
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Blackout that left much of Brazil in dark, now over
... a domino effect that rippled across the region. Lights twinkled back on along Rio's Copacabana beach, in South America's largest city of Sao Paulo and in Paraguay's sleepy capital of Asuncion. But some traffic lights were still out in both Rio and ... Comment?
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Lula seeks explanation for huge Brazil blackout
... energy rationing after a severe drought. Power was fully restored in Sao Paulo, Brazil's financial capital and South America's largest city, before dawn on Wednesday. The Itaipu power plant provides about 20 percent of the electricity supply in ... Comment?
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Electric Power Restored In Brazil
Electricity returned early Wednesday to a large swath of central and southern Brazil that was plunged into darkness when power from a major hydroelectric dam was lost. Comment?
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Madonna takes rabbi to Brazil
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Madonna has been accompanied to Brazil by her rabbi. The '4 Minutes' singer flew into South America on a private jet on Monday and despite speculation her visit to Rio de Janeiro is to meet boyfriend Jesus Luz's family, she insists she is there to carry out charity work. Comment?
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08:08 Intl Workshop on Cuba...
Havana, Nov 11 Historians from eight countries will participate at the workshop on the Bicentennial of the First Independence of Latin America and the Caribbean November 12 through 14. Comment?
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Blackouts Plague Energy-Rich Venezuela
This country may be an energy colossus, with the largest conventional oil reserves outside the Middle East and one of the world's mightiest hydroelectric systems, but that has not prevented it from enduring serious electricity and water shortages that seem only to be getting worse. Comment?
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Millions left in dark in Brazilian blackout
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Vehicles travel along an expressway, linking north and south SA o Paulo, during a massive blackout that affected Brazil and Paraguay. Comment?
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U.S. sanctions firms, people tied to Cali drug lords
The U.S. Treasury DepartmentA yesterday said it imposed sanctions on 14 people and 25A companies in Colombia, Spain and the Netherlands that it saidA supported the financial network of former bosses of Colombiaa sA Cali cocaine cartel.A A The Treasury said the individuals and firms were discoveredA to have had links to relatives of Gilberto ... Comment?
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