News: Brazil

We have started to collect the most important news related to Brazil in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Brazil: news

Brazil to subsidise contraception

Tuesday, May 29th 2007, 8:23

Brazil announces a $51m plan to make birth control pills more affordable for the country's poor.
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Brazilian energy minister resigns

Wednesday, May 23rd 2007, 1:50
related countries: Botswana

Brazil's energy minister, Silas Rondeau, tenders his resignation as he is investigated for alleged fraud.
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Brazilian minister in fraud probe

Tuesday, May 22nd 2007, 0:58
related countries: Botswana

Brazil's energy minister is the latest public figure under investigation as part of a broad corruption inquiry.
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Anger at Pope's Brazil comments

Monday, May 14th 2007, 21:43

Indigenous leaders in Brazil reject the Pope's comments that their predecessors had longed to become Christian.
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Pope condemns LatAm 'autocrats'

Monday, May 14th 2007, 7:02

Pope Benedict XVI criticises "authoritarian governments", in a speech at the end of his trip to Brazil.
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Pope visits drug clinic in Brazil

Saturday, May 12th 2007, 16:19
related countries: Botswana
related places: Aparecida

Pope Benedict XVI continues his Brazil tour, visiting a drugs treatment centre in the shrine city of Aparecida
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Pope names Brazil's first saint

Friday, May 11th 2007, 17:53
related countries: Botswana
related places: Sao Paulo

Pope Benedict XVI canonises Brazil's first saint before a crowd of a million people in the city of Sao Paulo.
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Pope gives Brazil family message

Friday, May 11th 2007, 1:43
related places: Sao Paulo

Pope Benedict XVI promotes traditional Catholic family values at a youth rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Pope presses Brazil on abortion

Thursday, May 10th 2007, 12:28

Pope Benedict XVI speaks out against abortion at the start of a visit to Brazil, the most populous Catholic nation.
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US pilots blamed in Brazil crash

Wednesday, May 9th 2007, 19:50
related countries: United States

Investigators probing Brazil's worst aviation disaster have blamed two US pilots of a private jet, reports say.
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Brazil to break Aids drug patent

Friday, May 4th 2007, 20:59
related countries: United States

Brazil's president decides to override an Aids drug patent held by a US pharmaceutical firm.
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Lula cleared of electoral scandal

Wednesday, April 25th 2007, 19:06
related places: Silva

Brazil's president Lula da Silva is cleared of any wrongdoing in connection with an alleged smear campaign by his party.
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Cash boost for schools in Brazil

Wednesday, April 25th 2007, 15:30
related countries: Botswana

The Brazilian President unveils details of a $4bn plan to improve standards of education across the country.
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Call for Brazil abortion debate

Monday, April 9th 2007, 18:44

The newly-appointed minister of health in Brazil calls for a wide-ranging debate on the issue of abortion.
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Brazil air chaos follows strike

Saturday, March 31st 2007, 21:34

Further chaos hits Brazil's airports after flights resume following an air traffic controllers' strike.
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Brazil flights crippled by strike

Saturday, March 31st 2007, 7:21

Airports in Brazil resume flights after air traffic controllers end a strike over their working conditions.
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Brazil rainforest internet plan

Friday, March 30th 2007, 11:43

A plan to provide isolated Amazon communities with free internet access has been announced in Brazil.
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Wanted Italian seized in Brazil

Sunday, March 18th 2007, 18:42
related countries: Italy

A former Italian revolutionary, wanted by Italy in connection with four murders, is arrested in Brazil, authorities say.
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Cash missing after Brazil crash

Thursday, March 15th 2007, 10:59
related countries: Botswana

Brazilian police investigate the disappearance of $2.6m from a plane that crashed in the north-east.
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Bush greeted by clashes in Brazil

Friday, March 9th 2007, 10:07
related countries: United States
related places: Sao Paulo, Bush

Riot police and protesters clash in Sao Paulo as the US president arrives at the start of a Latin American tour.
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