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1 hr ago | Reuters

Brazil delays mining bill, says to reach Congress in June

Brazil's government plans to submit its mining reform bill to Congress in June rather than this month, energy minister Edison Lobao said on Thursday, prolonging a wait that is slowing investment in mineral extraction.

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5 hrs ago | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Mag says only 2 women more powerful than Melinda Gates

Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ranks No.

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Related Topix: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Charitable Organizations, Angela Merkel, Europe, World News, Germany

11 hrs ago | The Rio Times

U.S. Ambassador to Leave Brazil: Daily

The United States has informed the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the current U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Thomas A. Shannon , will end his rotation in the country later this year.

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Wed May 22, 2013

AdelaideNow...

Merkel tops Forbes 'powerful women' list

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has topped Forbes magazine's list of the world's 100 most powerful women for the third consecutive year, followed by Brazil's Dilma Rousseff, the magazine says.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Charitable Organizations, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News

Tue May 21, 2013

Wall Street Journal

In Brazil, Industry Suffers While Inflation Hits the Roof

Brazil's battered economy, bruised by uncompetitive manufacturing and an inflation rate that flirts month-by-month with government tolerance levels, may be heading for the dreaded condition known as stagflation.

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Related Topix: Consulting, AT Kearney

Mon May 20, 2013

Reuters

Brazil probes rumor that set off panic run on state bank

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she ordered the Federal Police to investigate the source of a rumor that sent thousands of poor Brazilians running to state bank branches seeking payment of a monthly family stipend.

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Fri May 17, 2013

FiveThirtyEight

Latitude: Brazil Has Aggressive Affirmative Action Programs For...

While the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether American universities should take account of race when they admit new students, Brazil is implementing what are arguably the most radical affirmative action measures for universities in the West.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens

The Miami Herald

Brazil approves law to modernize ports

Brazil plans to modernize and expand its overcrowded ports, attract private investments to the sector and make it easier for companies to hire skilled foreign workers, in a bid to spur economic growth, The Brazilian Congress approved legislation late Thursday that allows the private sector to invest in state-owned ports and lifts restrictions that ... (more)

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Related Topix: South America, Brazil, World News

Thu May 16, 2013

Reuters

Brazil port modernization bill clears lower chamber of Congress

Legislation that President Dilma Rousseff says is vital to her efforts to modernize Brazil's clogged and costly ports cleared the lower chamber of Congress after a marathon debate and is expected to win Senate approval later on Thursday.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil,

Wed May 15, 2013

Connecticut Post

Egyptian judges suspend talks with president

In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi attends a bi-lateral signing ceremony with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil.

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Related Topix: Mohamed Morsi, World News, Brazil, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak

Tue May 14, 2013

Reuters

INTERVIEW-U.S. warns Brazil that trade barriers hurt growth potential

Brazil's barriers to international trade are limiting its growth potential and could hamper a huge infrastructure push at the center of President Dilma Rousseff's industrial agenda, the head of the U.S. Commerce Department said in a Tuesday interview.

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International Business Times

Exclusive - Brazil's Rousseff sides with farmers in Indian land fight

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has ordered her government to stop confiscating farmland to create new Indian reservations, government officials say, a policy reversal with major implications for one of the world's top agricultural producers.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil, Agriculture, Science,

Mon May 13, 2013

The Star Online

Venezuela's Maduro sends military to fight crime in Caracas streets

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday sent some 3,000 troops into the streets of the capital of Caracas to crack down on rampant crime that has made the OPEC nation one of the most dangerous in the world.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Venezuela, OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), Hugo Chavez

Reuters

Brazil's No. 2 finance ministry official to quit post in June

Brazil's deputy Finance Minister Nelson Barbosa, who helped design some of the government's flagship economic projects, has handed in his resignation for personal reasons and will leave the post in June, the ministry said on Monday.

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The Star Online

Egyptian assembly approves higher taxes on the wealthy

Egypt's parliament approved a new income tax law on Monday that will increase levies paid by the wealthy and by companies but reduce it for people in lower income brackets.

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Related Topix: Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

Reuters

Egyptian assembly approves higher taxes on the wealthy

Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi attends a signing ceremony with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff at the Planalto Palace, May 8, 2013.

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Related Topix: Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

Emirates News Agency

German President in Brazil to promote trade and investments

WAM SAO PAULO, 13th May, 2013 -- German President Joachim Gauck started today his last step-visit to Brazil with economic and trade issues on top of the agenda.

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Fri May 10, 2013

The Miami Herald

Alleged Brazilian torturer speaks to commission

One of the directors of Brazil's political repression agency during the country's long dictatorship says President Dilma Rousseff once wanted to install a communist regime in Latin America's biggest nation.

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Related Topix: Fidel Castro

The Baltimore Sun

Despite winning top world trade job, even Brazil looks beyond WTO

Brazil's President Rousseff gives a joint statement with her Argentine counterpart Fernandez de Kirchner at the government house in Buenos Aires BRASILIA - Brazil campaigned hard to get the top job at the World Trade Organization this week but behind closed doors even it acknowledges that the WTO's main mission - pushing forward in global trade ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, Brazil

Thu May 09, 2013

WTAX-AM Springfield

Venezuela's Maduro gets firm Brazilian backing, trade

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro got strong backing from regional heavyweight Brazil on Thursday on a tour of South American allies to cement his legitimacy as political heir to the late Hugo Chavez.

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Related Topix: Hugo Chavez