Recife, Brazil News

As scientists gather in Recife, Brazil, to agree on quotas for the Atlantic and Mediterranean stocks of tuna and swordfish in the latest round of fisheries talks, the RSPB and BirdLife International are reminding delegates that at least 37 species of seabird are at risk from these fisheries.

The lights flickered on and off and the popular soap opera showing on a TV screen in the corner suddenly vanished.

Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 10:02 am Press Release: US Department of State - Background Note Background Note: Brazil November 2009 Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME: Federative Republic of Brazil Geography Area: 8,511,965 sq.

But on the eve of the 10 day summit Ms. Peel, who has been the president of The Billfish Foundation for over a decade, is not highly optimistic any strong changes will be made among the attending countries to conservation of tuna and related species.

Fishing nations must cut the amount of Atlantic bluefin tuna they catch and protect porbeagle and thresher sharks, European fisheries commissioner Joe Borg said on Friday ahead of international talks.

Nov. 5, 2009 -- The Prevention Research Center in St. Louis is launching a multinational research project focused on preventing the leading causes of death in Hispanics in the United States and Latin America.

The biography of a Brazilian novelist 'who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf.' By Roger Gathman FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Imagine that Sylvia Plath, aside from writing poetry and "The Bell Jar," also penned beauty tips for Cosmopolitan and ghost wrote an advice column under Marilyn Monroe's name for ...

New Jersey thrash metal veterans Overkill have scheduled the following South American tour dates : 03/16 - Santiago De Chile, Chile - Teatro Teleton 03/18 - Porto Alegre, Brazil - Opiniao 03/19 - Recife, Brazil - Clube Portugues do Recife 03/20 - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Via Marques The members of Overkill took part in a press conference on July 9, 2009 ...

In August 2007, Germany's most successful music export worldwide, SCORPIONS , ventured deep into the Brazilian jungle for a sold-out show in front of 40,000 enthusiastic fans the band played a concert in Manaus, the metropolis on the Amazon river.

While U.S. attention has focused on the raging drug war just south of the border in Mexico, the battle to control drugs in Brazil is taking more lives.

This file photograph released by the Brazilian Navy shows the patrol boat Grajau, one of the ships involved in the search for the Air France AirBus 330 carrying 228 people that disappeared Monday over the Atlantic Ocean.

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Today both NOAA and the Department of the Interior issued statements supporting a CITES listing for the species.

On the 10th anniversary of his death, Brazil remembers a champion of the poor who fought the forces of conservatism "In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants - " even a few Catholics too, I dare say ... We should be more humble about people who, even if they have never heard of the name of Jesus Christ, may ...

In October and throughout November, dozens of cruise ships in European waters are moved from their now-chilly locations and sent on long, trans-Atlantic sailings to the Caribbean or South American waters.

A federal judge this afternoon tacked another decade of prison time on the 15-year sentence being served by a former Wharton School professor convicted of trafficking in child pornography.

MusiGames Studio Presents Throat Detonator for iPhone and iPod Touch The World's First Action Game Where Your Voice is the Key to Saving the World RECIFE, Brazil - September 28, 2009 - MusiGames, a developer of games and edutainment software, today announced the release of Throat Detonator for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

Our family chronicle includes three years living in Senegal, and three years living in Brazil.

A sharply divided European Union failed Tuesday to protect the threatened bluefin tuna, as the bloc's Mediterranean nations refused to back even a temporary a ban on catching the fish prized by sushi aficionados.

The last in a three-part series about the need for Canada to diversify its economic interests away from the United States and build stronger business ties with emerging markets.