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News: Brazil Brazil 02/09/2012 03:04 PM Brazil: Striking police leave occupied building (AP) AP - Striking police officers in the northeastern city of Salvador on Thursday evacuated the state legislative building they occupied in protest for more than a week. 02/08/2012 07:42 PM Haitians bound for Brazil languish in Peru's Amazon (Reuters) Reuters - Nearly 300 Haitians fleeing the poverty of their earthquake-ravaged homeland have been stuck for a month in the Peruvian Amazon, where a gate to what they saw as a better life in Brazil has abruptly closed. 02/07/2012 08:46 PM Partial collapse of building kills 1 in Brazil (AP) AP - A 13-story building partially collapsed in an industrial suburb outside Sao Paulo, Brazil killing a 3-year-old girl, firefighters said Tuesday. 02/07/2012 07:52 PM Brazilian state's death toll tops 100 as police strike (Reuters) Reuters - A toll of 115 murders and widespread looting, assaults and vandalism in the past week are roiling Brazil's third-biggest city, casting doubts over upcoming carnival celebrations and raising questions about security ahead of the 2014 World Cup. 02/05/2012 08:39 PM Crime erupts as police strike in Brazil's Bahia: reports (Reuters) Reuters - A police strike in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia sparked a wave of murders and other violence in World Cup host-city Salvador, local media reported, just two weeks ahead of Carnaval celebrations that are expected to attract visitors from around the world. 02/04/2012 02:17 AM Olympics, World Cup preparation bring evictions (AP) AP - Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos' devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn't watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium — this nation's temple to the sport. 02/02/2012 11:40 PM Brazil's minister of cities steps down (AP) AP - Brazil's minister of cities resigned Thursday amid allegations of irregularities, the eighth member of President Dilma Rousseff's Cabinet to step down since June. 02/02/2012 03:08 AM Brazil's Rousseff: Visas offered to Haiti (AP) AP - Brazil is offering 6,000 visas to Haitians over a five-year period as one of several efforts that look to help the troubled Caribbean nation get on its feet, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday. 02/01/2012 08:56 PM Building collapse, blasts spark worries about Rio (AP) AP - Enormous buildings suddenly collapse in this Olympic city's center, killing 17. A manhole explodes near Copacabana Beach, severely burning a pair of American tourists. 02/01/2012 08:18 AM Brazil's Rousseff meets with Fidel Castro in Cuba (Reuters) Reuters - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff met with Fidel Castro, the revolutionary hero of her youth, and held talks with his younger brother, President Raul Castro, on Tuesday in a visit to strengthen financial ties with communist-led Cuba. 01/31/2012 09:24 PM Brazil prez: Blogger's travel for Cuba to decide (AP) AP - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says her country acted properly in granting a visa to a dissident Cuban blogger, but says it's an internal Cuban matter as to whether blogger Yoani Sanchez is allowed to leave the country. 01/30/2012 05:25 PM Brazilian bikinis burgeon to fit the fat (AP) AP - Tall and tan and young and ... chunky? Brazil News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com Provides the latest RSS feeds for Brazil News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page 02/09/2012 11:40 AM Football legend Falcao to coach Bahia With the sudden departure of Joel Santana to Flamengo, Bahia has announced the signing of Brazilian soccer legend Paulo Roberto Falcao as its coach. 02/09/2012 07:50 AM Argentine oil firm made $3 bn investments in 2011 Argentine oil company YPF, a unit of Spain's Repsol-YPF, announced Wednesday that its investments in the South American country rose last year by 50 percent to a record 13.3 billion pesos ($3.06 billi 02/08/2012 03:50 PM Strengthening India-Brazil defence ties Brazilian Defence Minister Celso Amorim met with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Wednesday to discuss strengthening of bilateral military ties. 02/09/2012 12:54 PM Brazil Rules out More Airport Privatization Brasilia, Feb 9 (Prensa Latina) Finance Minister Guido Mantega ruled out any new government plan to privatize other airports, as it did on Monday with Guarulhos and Viracopos, in Sao Paulo, and ... 02/09/2012 12:39 PM Brazilian troops tighten security at police strike Troops tightened the security ring around a Brazilian state legislature building Wednesday, seeking to step up pressure on the hundreds of striking police barricaded inside as the city's ... 02/09/2012 12:11 PM The inbound travel traffic jam. Last month the US announced with much fanfare an initiative to hasten the visa process for the burgeoning middle classes of China and Brazil. While both countries have seen increased outbound travel ... 02/09/2012 12:01 PM Diageo drink sales decline in UK but increase in Latin America DRINKS giant Diageo today said sales in the UK were falling behind its continental neighbours - although Britons are still lapping up vodka and Baileys. Smirnoff and whiskey and cream-based liqueur ... 02/09/2012 11:14 AM Police strike casts shadow over Brazil carnival Security concerns are growing in Brazil as carnival approaches and police in Bahia remain on strike. More than 3,000 federal troops are now in the northeastern state, after a sharp increase in ... 02/09/2012 11:13 AM Brazil Can't Become World Player Sitting on the Fence While World Clamors Against Syrian Regime Amidst the clamor of international outrage in the wake of the failed United Nations Security Council vote for regime change in Syria, Brazil has remained conspicuously silent. While the United ... 02/09/2012 11:13 AM For Bahia Governor It's Damned If He Does, Damned If He Doesn't Legislative Assembly, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. About 200 military policemen are occupying the Assembly. They are surrounded by more than 1300 Army soldiers, besides other police forcers. About 500 ... 02/09/2012 11:06 AM Brazil oil giant Petrobras gets new chief Maria das Gracas Silva Foster has worked for Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras almost all her career. And now, after 32 years, she is set to take over the running of a company that is ... 02/09/2012 11:05 AM Brazil celebrating unconfirmed report that Lula da Silva is free of cancer A piece of news in a Brazilian website on Wednesday today caused a wave of reactions and expectations when it declared sources close to the medical team treating former Brazilian President Lula da ...

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