Brazil’s middle class swells as 35 mn climb out of poverty
September 21st, 2012 - 12:24 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Sep 21 (IANS/EFE) Roughly 35 million Brazilians have climbed out of poverty over the last decade and 53 percent of the country's nearly 194 million people now ... Read more...
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No doubt lawmakers took bribes: Brazilian judge
September 18th, 2012 - 12:27 pm ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Sep 18 (IANS/EFE) Members of Congress traded votes for money during the first two years of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's 2003-11 tenure as president, one of the judges ... Read more...
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Chavez denies getting medical checkup in Brazil
August 3rd, 2012 - 12:20 pm ICT by IANS
Caracas, Aug 3 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been battling cancer since June 2011, said he feels fine and denied rumours that he submitted to a medical checkup ... Read more...
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US, Brazil agree to closer defence ties
April 10th, 2012 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
Washington, April 10 (IANS/EFE) US President Barack Obama and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff agreed here Monday to increase defence cooperation and facilitate tourism and business travel between their two ... Read more...
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Ex-Brazilian president fears losing voice
March 31st, 2012 - 9:59 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, March 31 (IANS) Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said he was more afraid of losing his voice than dying from cancer."If I lose ... Read more...
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Over half of Brazilians now middle class
March 23rd, 2012 - 11:54 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, March 23 (IANS/EFE) The number of Brazilians categorized as middle class has risen rapidly in recent years, climbing from 34 percent of the population in 2004 to ... Read more...
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Fidel Castro meets cancer-stricken Hugo Chavez
March 3rd, 2012 - 2:38 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico, March 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Cuban President Raul Castro and his brother Fidel Castro visited cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is currently recovering from a medical surgery, the Univision ... Read more...
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Brazil’s ex-president discharged from hospital
February 18th, 2012 - 12:46 pm ICT by IANS
Sao Paulo, Feb 18 (IANS/EFE) Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was discharged Friday from the hospital after undergoing combined radiation and chemotherapy treatment for throat cancer.Sixtysix-year-old Lula, ... Read more...
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Brazil cabinet minister quits
February 3rd, 2012 - 11:45 am ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Feb 3 (IANS/EFE) Brazil's urban affairs minister resigned Thursday amid allegations of corruption, becoming the seventh member of President Dilma Rousseff's cabinet to step down under fire since she ... Read more...
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‘Two more Latin American presidents will get cancer’
January 5th, 2012 - 1:52 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 5 (IANS/EFE) The fact that six former or current presidents in Latin America have or had cancer shows that the region was the victim of an "evil ... Read more...
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US calls Chavez cancer comment horrific
December 30th, 2011 - 4:25 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's comment that Washington may have been involved in the cancers of South American leaders are "horrific and reprehensible", the US State Department ... Read more...
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Former Brazil president Lula diagnosed with cancer
October 30th, 2011 - 2:44 pm ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Oct 30 (IANS/EFE) Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who quit power Jan 1, has been diagnosed with throat cancer, the hospital where he will undergo treatment ... Read more...
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Brazil is India’s bridge to Latin America: Former envoy
October 30th, 2011 - 12:55 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Oct 30 (IANS) Brazil is the bridge leading to Latin America, the final frontier for Indian diplomacy, says former Indian ambassador to Brazil Amitava Tripathi."I regard Latin America as ... Read more...
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Former Brazil president Lula has cancer
October 29th, 2011 - 11:24 pm ICT by IANS
Rio De Janeiro, Oct 29 (IANS) Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer, his physicians said Saturday.According to Doctor Paulo Hoff from the Sirio-Libanes ... Read more...
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Brazil’s sports minister quits
October 27th, 2011 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Oct 27 (IANS/EFE) Brazil's sports minister resigned Wednesday after being assailed by corruption complaints that cost him the confidence of President Dilma Rousseff, officials said.Orlando Silva is the fifth ... Read more...
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Brazil created record 2.52 mn new jobs in 2010
January 20th, 2011 - 10:59 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Jan 20 (IANS/EFE) Brazil created a record 2.52 million new jobs last year, the most since the statistics were first registered in 1992, the labour ministry has said.The number ... Read more...
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Carla Bruni embroiled in ‘left-wing terrorist extradition’ controversy
January 6th, 2011 - 11:46 am ICT by ANI
London, Jan 6 (ANI): French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has come under fire for allegedly intervening to prevent the extradition of a left-wing terrorist convicted of four murders from Brazil to Italy. ... Read more...
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Brazilian president-elect invites ex-cellmates to inauguration
December 31st, 2010 - 1:04 pm ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Dec 31 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff invited to her inauguration this weekend 11 women with whom she shared cells during the almost three years she was imprisoned for her links ... Read more...
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Brazil oil field’s name changed to `Lula’
December 30th, 2010 - 11:51 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 30 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras Wednesday confirmed the commercial viability of two massive offshore oil and gas fields located deep beneath the ocean floor, announcing that ... Read more...
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Brazil jobless rate lowest in 8 years
December 18th, 2010 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 18 (IANS/EFE) Brazil's unemployment rate dipped to 5.7 percent last month, the lowest level since March 2002, authorities said.The jobless total fell 0.4 percent from October and was ... Read more...
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Brazilian economy creates 2.5 mn new jobs
December 17th, 2010 - 12:15 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 17 (IANS/EFE) Brazil's economy generated upwards of 2.5 million new jobs in the first 11 months of this year, 7.7 percent more than during all of 2009, the ... Read more...
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Fiat to build $1.7 bn car factory in Brazil
December 15th, 2010 - 12:55 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 15 (IANS/EFE) Fiat SpA has announced that it plans to invest 3 billion reais ($1.7 billion) to build a second plant in Brazil, the carmaker's No. 2 market ... Read more...
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Manmohan to meet leaders from Canada, Brazil at Seoul G20
November 9th, 2010 - 9:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) A host of bilateral talks await Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as he leaves for Seoul on a three-day visit from Wednesday for the G20 Summit, where ... Read more...
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Brazil’s first woman president-elect vows to push for equality
November 2nd, 2010 - 12:36 pm ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Nov 2 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff has promised to guarantee freedom of the press and religion and to promote "equality between men and women", since all those things are "essential ... Read more...
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Rousseff first woman to win Brazil’s presidential election (Lead, changing dateline)
November 2nd, 2010 - 12:05 am ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Nov 1 (IANS/EFE) Economist Dilma Rousseff of the ruling Workers' Party (PT), Sunday became the first woman to win the Brazilian presidential election, garnering 55.92 percent of the total votes, with ... Read more...
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Brazilian soccer heroes look to politics
September 24th, 2010 - 12:09 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Sep 24 (IANS/EFE) Romario and Bebeto, leading goal scorers of the Brazilian football team that won the 1994 FIFA World Cup, have joined the political fray as candidates for ... Read more...
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Lula biopic to represent Brazil at Oscars
September 24th, 2010 - 12:04 pm ICT by IANS
Sao Paulo, Sep 24 (IANS/EFE) A film about the life of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was chosen Thursday to represent the South American country in the Best Foreign Language ... Read more...
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James Cameron to make 3D movie on Amazon tribes
September 6th, 2010 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 6 (IANS) Filmmaker James Cameron is planning to make a 3D movie highlighting the plight of indigenous people who will be uprooted by the construction of a dam on the ... Read more...
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Brazil signs contract for controversial Amazon dam
August 27th, 2010 - 11:09 am ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Aug 27 (IANS/EFE) President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed the contract for construction of a massive new hydroelectric dam in Brazil's Amazon region, a project opponents say will displace ... Read more...
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Brazil hopes to power rise on Olympics, World Cup projects
August 25th, 2010 - 1:06 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 25 (IANS) Brazil, the world's eighth largest economy with a GDP of $1.5 trillion, is gearing up to host the football World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics ... Read more...
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Brazil makes formal offer of asylum to convicted Iranian woman
August 11th, 2010 - 7:56 am ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Aug 11 (DPA) The Brazilian government has made an official offer of asylum to an Iranian woman - Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani - who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery ... Read more...
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Juan Manuel Santos takes over as Colombia’s president
August 8th, 2010 - 4:34 am ICT by IANS
Bogota, Aug 8 (DPA) Conservative Juan Manuel Santos took office Saturday as Colombia's new president, to succeed his former boss Alvaro Uribe with a four-year mandate.
The ceremony in Bogota's Bolivar Square was ... Read more...
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Brazil president says asylum offer to adulterous Iran woman is humanitarian gesture
August 4th, 2010 - 4:12 pm ICT by ANI
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug. 4 (ANI): The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio ... Read more...
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New sites on world heritage list soon
July 23rd, 2010 - 1:23 pm ICT by IANS
Brasilia, July 23 (IANS) Representatives from over 100 countries will meet here to discuss the inclusion of new sites in the Unesco World Heritage List.
This year, 32 new sites have been submitted ... Read more...
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Brazil to launch bullet train soon
July 15th, 2010 - 10:45 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, July 15 (IANS/EFE) Brazil will soon start a bullet train and companies from Japan, South Korea, China, France, Austria, Spain and Germany have expressed interest to build and operate ... Read more...
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