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1 hr ago | KXMC-TV Minot

Reports: 101yrold Brazil architect back at work

Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work Eds: APNewsNow. Will stand. Moving on general news and lifestyles services.

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6 hrs ago | Big News Network.com - Delaware News

'Tough cookie' Madonna dons bullet proof vest in Brazil

London, Nov 21 : Madonna insisted on wearing a bullet proof vest during her visit to a Rio de Janeiro slum even as she was accompanied by a squad of bodyguards.

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11 hrs ago | People's Daily Online

Peace in Mideast depends on establishing Palestinian state

Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva said Friday after meeting the Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that peace in Middle East depends on establishing a Palestinian state.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Travel, Brazil Travel, Uruguay Travel, Brazil, Uruguay Travel, Shimon Peres

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Prensa Latina

Brazil-Cuba Cooperation Meeting Winds up

Brasilia, Nov 20 The ninth Meeting of the Brazil-Cuba Cooperation Task Group closes two days of sessions Friday, with the signing of several bilateral collaboration agreements in different fields.

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Reuters

Montreux unveils 2010 poster by Brazil's Britto

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.

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Related Topix: Montreux, Jazz, World News, Entertainment

Daily Record

Monmouth Co. father fighting to get son back from Brazil to testify before human rights panel

WASHINGTON - Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., announced Thursday that a congressional panel dedicated to human rights will hold a hearing on the international child abduction case involving David Goldman of Tinton Falls, N.J. "David Goldman's human rights as a father, his rights under U.S. law and international treaty have been trampled," Smith said.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Christopher Smith, Adam Smith, Democrat, Monmouth Metro, Tinton Falls, NJ

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Jurist

Brazil top court rules for extradition of Italy fugitive

The high court has yet to decide if the order mandates Lula to extradite Battisti or merely authorizes him to do so.

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Philly.com

Brazil's hot spots

The spotlight is on Rio de Janeiro, now that it will host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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KSNT-TV Topeka

Reports: Glover to wed Brazilian girlfriend

Actor Danny Glover arrives at the reading of 'The World Of Nick Adams' to honor Paul Newman held at Davies Symphony Hall on October 27, 2008 in San Francisco, California.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, San Francisco Metro, Entertainment

OfficialWire

BG Group Eyes FLNG Vessel In Brazil

BG Group signed a joint venture agreement with Brazil's Petrobras to vet proposals to develop a floating liquefied natural gas vessel in the Santos Basin.

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India eNews

Brazil airline company to test sugar-based aviation fuel

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 19 Brazil's Azul Airlines will conduct a demo flight by 2012 to test a sugar-based aviation fuel manufactured by a US firm, the company has announced.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Global Warming

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Boston.com

Brazil: President to decide on Italian fugitive

Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the nation's president should decide whether to extradite Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti, a former leftist rebel wanted by his native country for political killings in the 1970s.

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Thoroughbred Times

Goecochea lands Brazila s Grande Premio Bento Goncalves

Three-year-old Goecochea edged two-time defending winner Starman by a head to win the Grande Premio Bento Goncalves , the Rio Grande do Sul Jockey Club's most important race of the year for Brazil's best stayers on the dirt, at Hipodromo Cristal.

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UPI

BG Group makes find in Brazil

BG Group announced it encountered medium crude oil at the Tupi Northeast well in Block BM-S-11 in a development off the coast of Brazil.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

Crofsblogs.typepad.com

Brazil: Seven deaths in Rio Grande do Norte, 1,447 in the country

Via Folha Online: Rio Grande do Norte confirma sete mortes por gripe suA na .[Rio Grande do Norte state confirms seven swine flu deaths] Excerpt, with my translation: A confirmaA A o de sete mortes por gripe suA na --a gripe A -- no Rio Grande do Norte, todas entre o final de outubro e o inA cio de novembro, deixou em alerta autoridades de saAode.

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Related Topix: World News, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

MSNBC

Brazil minidress woman soaks up fame

Brazilian freshmen university student Geisy ArrudaA in her lawyer's office in Sao Paulo, Tuesday.

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News.com.au

Actor Danny Glover to wed

LETHAL Weapon co-star Danny Glover is to marry his longtime Brazilian girlfriend in a December, he told a Rio de Janeiro film festival this week, according to the O Globo newspaper.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Blindness, Black Entertainment, Danny Glover, South America, World News,

ContactMusic.com

Madonna - Madonna Helps Brazilian Kids

Madonna has secured a $7 million donation from Brazil's richest man to help set up a children's charity in the South American country.

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Reuters

In Amazon, a frustrated search for cancer cures

The task of harvesting the secrets of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forest that could help in the battle against cancer largely falls to Osmar Barbosa Ferreira and a big pair of clippers.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

HowardThomson.co.uk

Tuna body shies from fishing ban

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

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