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President Peres to address Brazilian Senate in effort to boost Israel's status in South America Amnon Meranda 11.10.09, 22:07 / Israel News BRASILIA - " President Shimon Peres has embarked on a week-long visit to Brazil and Argentina, highlighted by a speech to the Brazilian Senate Tuesday where Israel's president offered his hosts "100 years of ...

France and Brazil have adopted a common policy ahead of key UN global warming talks and have vowed to launch a worldwide push to convince other powers to back their "climate bible". A joint text was unveiled on Saturday after talks between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, which gave an ...

Israeli President Shimon Peres began on Tuesday a six-day official visit to Brazil.

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says his Government is increasing infrastructure investment Brazil's president has denied underinvestment was to blame for the worst power outage in a decade, which left a huge swath of the country in the dark for more than five hours.

A massive power failure blacked out Brazil's two largest cities and other parts of Latin America's biggest nation Tuesday night, leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge hydroelectric dam suddenly went offline.

Israel's President Shimon Peres, center, arrives to Congress in Brasilia, Tuesday, Nov.

A hoaxer posing as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fooled Portuguese-language radio stations around the world for several days before being outed by an Australian broadcaster.

Brasilia, Nov 2 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will travel Tuesday to Britain where he is to meet with the UK Prime Minister and attend a business seminar.

That favorite status was enhanced in early September when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Brazil had started talks to buy the Rafales.

BRASILIA: The Brazilian Air Force Sunday said it found the body of a second person who died from a plane crash last week in the Amazon rainforest that saw nine survivors rescued by indigenous tribesmen.

Digital Divide and Social Inclusion : Organizations and institutions before the digital divide: model development and good practices Notes from the first II Conferencia Internacional Brecha Digital e Inclusion Social on October 28th to 30th, 2009.

A German man reportedly dumped by a Brazilian woman he met on the Internet has been living in an airport for 13 days and isn't saying when he will leave.

Brasilia, Oct 27 Brazilian permanent representative to the Latin American Integration Association , Regis Arslanian, defended on Tuesday Venezuela''s joining the Southern Common Market .

BRASILIA, Brazil a " The death toll from bloody clashes in Rio de Janeiro is up to 25 after authorities found more bodies.The newly discovered victims include a young man found dead in a supermarket cart at the entrance to a slum that saw intense gang combat over the weekend.

Brazilian Sports Ministry will invest 80 million reais in monitoring system for public and private soccer stadiums, including security cameras, to ensure security during matches, a sports official said on Friday.

A much-anticipated biopic chronicling the early years of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will premiere next month at the Brasilia film festival, organisers said.

Eds: APNewsNow. AP Photo XSI102, XSI101, XSI104 By MARCO SIBAJA Associated Press Writer BRASILIA, Brazil The death toll from bloody clashes in Rio de Janeiro is up to 25 after authorities found more bodies.

Jewish leaders criticized Brazila TMs plans to welcome Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in November.

BRASILIA: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Olivier de Schutter expressed support on Friday for the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil.

Brazil has made substantial progress in ensuring all its citizens have access to food, but authorities in the South American nation should do more to help the most vulnerable groups, such as the landless and small farmers, a United Nations human rights expert said today.