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

Military helps Rio tackle dengue

Saturday, March 22nd 2008, 17:08
related places: Rio de Janeiro

Brazil's military is to help the city of Rio de Janeiro deal with a surge in the number of dengue fever cases.
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Brazil girl held for days in cell

Monday, March 17th 2008, 19:36

Human rights groups criticise police in Brazil for holding a 12-year-old girl in a police cell for six days.
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First coca find in Brazil Amazon

Monday, March 17th 2008, 3:03
related countries: Botswana

Coca plantations and a cocaine lab are found for the first time in a Brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest.
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Brazil landless blockade railway

Tuesday, March 11th 2008, 11:07

Landless farm workers stage a daylong blockade of a railway line used by Brazil's biggest mining company.
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Bug hunt finds Brazil 'mummies'

Wednesday, February 27th 2008, 16:45
related places: Sao Paulo

Exterminators looking for termites find the "mummified" bodies of two nuns in a Sao Paulo monastery.
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Naomi Campbell treated in Brazil

Tuesday, February 26th 2008, 20:30
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Sao Paulo

British supermodel Naomi Campbell has a cyst removed at a hospital in Brazil, her publicist says.
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Brazil unveils anti-poverty drive

Tuesday, February 26th 2008, 14:55

Brazil's President Lula unveils plans to spend billions of dollars on infrastructure and jobs in the poorest regions.
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Latin America nuclear pact signed

Saturday, February 23rd 2008, 2:22
related countries: Argentina

Argentina and Brazil agree to build a joint nuclear reactor to address looming energy shortages.
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Brazil film wins top Berlin prize

Sunday, February 17th 2008, 11:51
related countries: Germany
related places: Berlin

The Elite Squad, a Brazilian film about police violence wins the Golden Bear - the top prize at the Berlin film festival.
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Brazil carjack killers sentenced

Thursday, January 31st 2008, 10:47

Four young men in Brazil get maximum jail sentences after they dragged a six-year-old boy to his death behind a car they had stolen.
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EU suspends Brazil beef imports

Thursday, January 31st 2008, 0:06
related countries: Botswana

The EU halts all imports of Brazilian beef, saying its foot-and-mouth disease checks are "unacceptable".
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Brazil vows to stem Amazon loss

Thursday, January 24th 2008, 19:40

Brazil agrees new measures to tackle Amazon deforestation at an emergency cabinet meeting.
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'Huge' gas field found off Brazil

Tuesday, January 22nd 2008, 7:08
related places: Rio de Janeiro

A massive natural gas field is found off Rio de Janeiro's coastline, Brazil's state-controlled oil company says.
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'Drug lord's' Brazil farm invaded

Monday, January 21st 2008, 20:33

Landless protesters in Brazil occupy a farm owned by an alleged drug lord hours before it was to be auctioned.
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Brazil activist priest 'at risk'

Wednesday, January 16th 2008, 16:23

A Catholic aid agency voices deep concern after a priest working on land rights in Brazil gets death threats.
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Yellow fever alert alarms Brazil

Friday, January 11th 2008, 21:46

Brazil confirms a man who died in the capital did have yellow fever, as hundreds queue for vaccinations.
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Brazil unhappy at Menezes ruling

Sunday, December 23rd 2007, 10:05
related places: Menezes

Brazil is unhappy that no senior police officer involved Jean Charles de Menezes's will be disciplined.
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Brazil bishop ends hunger strike

Friday, December 21st 2007, 3:13

A Brazilian bishop protesting against a major irrigation project gives up a hunger strike after 24 days.
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Brazil museum's Picasso stolen

Thursday, December 20th 2007, 17:26

Thieves in Brazil steal two paintings said to be worth $100m (£50m), including a work by Pablo Picasso.
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Football: Kaka wins Fifa award

Monday, December 17th 2007, 22:01

AC Milan and Brazil star Kaka beats Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to the title of Fifa world player of the year.
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Venezuela and Brazil link trade

Friday, December 14th 2007, 7:35
related countries: Venezuela

Brazil and Venezuela pledge closer ties on trade and energy, including the building of a new refinery together.
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Key Brazilian tax is thrown out

Thursday, December 13th 2007, 15:56
related countries: Botswana

Brazil's government suffers a major blow as the Senate refuses to renew a key revenue-raising tax.
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Emerging giants in telecom boom

Wednesday, December 12th 2007, 13:06
related countries: India, Russia, United Kingdom

Brazil, India, China and Russia are driving global telecoms growth, a report by UK watchdog Ofcom suggests.
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Troubled Brazilian speaker quits

Tuesday, December 4th 2007, 22:20
related countries: Botswana

The speaker of Brazil's Senate resigns before a vote that could have led to his expulsion over a corruption scandal.
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Brazil police killings condemned

Thursday, November 15th 2007, 10:35

A senior UN official harshly criticises police in Brazil for involvement in large numbers of extra-judicial killings.
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Brazil's Aids policy 'remarkable'

Wednesday, November 14th 2007, 4:35
related countries: United States

Brazil's policy of bargaining with drug companies on Aids medicine has been a great success, a US study says.
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Brazil announces new oil reserves

Friday, November 9th 2007, 12:15

Brazil says newly-discovered oil reserves could make it one of the biggest oil producers in the world.
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Brazil announces new oil reserves

Friday, November 9th 2007, 2:04

Brazil says newly-discovered oil reserves could make it one of the biggest oil producers in the world.
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Arrests made in Brazil tax probe

Wednesday, November 7th 2007, 0:38
related countries: Botswana

Brazilian police arrest 19 people in an investigation into alleged money laundering, following raids at 44 sites.
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Brazil will stage 2014 World Cup

Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 14:38

Fifa names Brazil as the host nation for the 2014 World Cup.
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F1: McLaren set to launch appeal

Monday, October 22nd 2007, 15:34
related countries: Bermuda

Lewis Hamilton still has a slim chance of taking the F1 title after McLaren say they will contest a decision not to punish two other teams in Brazil.
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