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By Seth Kugel NOVO ARIPUANA, Amazonas, Brazil a ' Lining the top of a steep slope down to the water is a row of solid but rustic wooden homes.

Wuhan Iron & Steel Group , Chinaa s third-biggest steelmaker, agreed to pay $400 million for a stake in Brazila s MMX Mineracao e Metalicos SA to broaden its supply of iron ore.

The Center for the Promotion of HIV-positive Patients, run by the Literary Association of St.

Rio de Janeiro - The battle between preservation and development is red-hot in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest.

Authorities say six heavily armed men dressed as police officers entered a Rio de Janeiro precinct and freed 28 suspects in broad daylight.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Brasilia yesterday seeking support for his controversial nuclear programme, the first leg of a South American tour that critics say could dent Brazila s ambitions on the global diplomatic stage.

Brazilian Jewish teenagers this week protested what they called their "exclusion" from a national exam for high school graduates set to take place on Shabbat, after a Brazilian court said providing Jews with an alternative date would "undermine equality." "In some areas in Brazil, such a Rio de Janeiro, observant Jewish students cannot apply to ...

The storms that have been lashing southern Brazil in the past few weeks have already caused 3.5 billion reais in damage, local authorities said Friday.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced the reception granted to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brasilia by President Luiz InA cio Lula da Silva, who defended Iranian nuclear aspirations while Ahmadinejad, in turn, backed Brazil's proposal for a reform of the UN Security Council which would include the Latin American country as a permanent ...

Protests greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brazil at the start of a South American tour intended to bolster the Iranian president's legitimacy and ease his country's international isolation.

Fabola C. da Costa, Rogrio M.C. Pinto, Renata C. de Oliveira, Camila Bragagnolo, Elba R.S. Lemos, Mrcia B.C. de Paula, Adalberto A. Pajuaba Neto, and Marcelo S. Ferreira Author afilliations: Federal University of Uberlndia, Uberlndia, Minas Gerais, Brazil ; Department of Public Health, Uberlndia ; and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ...

China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin met in Brasilia on Thursday with Brazilian Federal Senate President Jose Sarney, exchanging views on bilateral ties and cooperation.

Germany's Volkswagen AG on Friday announced plans to invest euro2.3 billion in Brazil and said it hopes to be building a million vehicles a year in the country by 2014.

Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega confirmed on Tuesday that the government will extend tax breaks to certain vehicles deemed environmentally friendly.

Honduras chooses a new president on Sunday in an election that may defuse a crisis caused by a coup against President Manuel Zelaya, but the vote is splitting Washington and Latin America.

Geisy Arruda, who became an instant celebrity after being heckled by hundreds of fellow students because of her dress, said Thursday she has accepted invitations to participate with samba groups in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Brazilian police on Tuesday launched an anti-drug operation and arrested 14 people in the southern border state of Rio Grande do Sul.

China and Brazil should and will strengthen parliamentary cooperation to further the development of bilateral ties, top Chinese political adviser Jia Qinglin said Wednesday at a meeting with the president of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, Michel Temer.

The United States risks souring relations with much of Latin America if it recognizes upcoming elections in Honduras, the foreign policy adviser to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in an interview on Wednesday.

Officials say flooding from heavy rains has killed 12 people in three South American nations and forced more than 20,000 to flee their homes.

" Presidents of Iran and Brazil highlighted the necessity to establish cooperation between the two countries in all fields, particularly in industry, trade, energy, and technology and set a $25 billion trade volume goal for the next five years.

Oprah Winfrey interviewed Sarah Palin last week and hinted that the former VP candidate may be in talks to launch a talk show.

Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send their employees home.

Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.

New WEC featherweight champ Jose Aldo is proudly carrying his new title belt back home to Brazil, but a few items brought to the cage with him on the night he won the 145-pound title can be delivered to your house.

Pop star Sting has said Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest.

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The Iranian leader is set to meet privately Monday with Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who called it an honor to receive Ahmadinejad and defended Iran's right to develop nuclear energy.

A powerful storm with wind gusts up to 130 kilometers per hour left at least five people dead and another 22 injured in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, officials said.

Tom Cruise attends a photo call to promote his movie Valkyrie in Rio de Janeiro.

Rock star Sting has used his latest visit to Brazil to urge the government there to listen to the concerns of indigenous peoples over a proposed new hydro-electric dam in the Amazon.

About 500 people gathered Sunday for the protest at Rio de Janeiro 's Ipanema Beach.

Torrential downpours in Brazil's southern region have killed seven people and uprooted over 16 000 over the past three days, civil defence officials said yesterday.

Poverty and violence are part of every day life for children living in Brazil's slums, also known as favelas .

French tyre maker Michelin will build a new factory in Brazil at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, the company's chief executive Michel Rollier told a newspaper Saturday.

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London, Nov 21 : Madonna insisted on wearing a bullet proof vest during her visit to a Rio de Janeiro slum even as she was accompanied by a squad of bodyguards.

Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva said Friday after meeting the Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that peace in Middle East depends on establishing a Palestinian state.

Brasilia, Nov 20 The ninth Meeting of the Brazil-Cuba Cooperation Task Group closes two days of sessions Friday, with the signing of several bilateral collaboration agreements in different fields.

Brazilian Romero Britto has created the 2010 edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival's poster, adding to a long list of striking images by famous artists that have made the posters desirable objects among collectors.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., announced Thursday that a congressional panel dedicated to human rights will hold a hearing on the international child abduction case involving David Goldman of Tinton Falls, N.J. "David Goldman's human rights as a father, his rights under U.S. law and international treaty have been trampled," Smith said.

The high court has yet to decide if the order mandates Lula to extradite Battisti or merely authorizes him to do so.

The spotlight is on Rio de Janeiro, now that it will host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Actor Danny Glover arrives at the reading of 'The World Of Nick Adams' to honor Paul Newman held at Davies Symphony Hall on October 27, 2008 in San Francisco, California.

BG Group signed a joint venture agreement with Brazil's Petrobras to vet proposals to develop a floating liquefied natural gas vessel in the Santos Basin.

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 19 Brazil's Azul Airlines will conduct a demo flight by 2012 to test a sugar-based aviation fuel manufactured by a US firm, the company has announced.

Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the nation's president should decide whether to extradite Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti, a former leftist rebel wanted by his native country for political killings in the 1970s.

Three-year-old Goecochea edged two-time defending winner Starman by a head to win the Grande Premio Bento Goncalves , the Rio Grande do Sul Jockey Club's most important race of the year for Brazil's best stayers on the dirt, at Hipodromo Cristal.

BG Group announced it encountered medium crude oil at the Tupi Northeast well in Block BM-S-11 in a development off the coast of Brazil.

Via Folha Online: Rio Grande do Norte confirma sete mortes por gripe suA na .[Rio Grande do Norte state confirms seven swine flu deaths] Excerpt, with my translation: A confirmaA A o de sete mortes por gripe suA na --a gripe A -- no Rio Grande do Norte, todas entre o final de outubro e o inA cio de novembro, deixou em alerta autoridades de saAode.

Brazilian freshmen university student Geisy ArrudaA in her lawyer's office in Sao Paulo, Tuesday.

LETHAL Weapon co-star Danny Glover is to marry his longtime Brazilian girlfriend in a December, he told a Rio de Janeiro film festival this week, according to the O Globo newspaper.

Madonna has secured a $7 million donation from Brazil's richest man to help set up a children's charity in the South American country.

The task of harvesting the secrets of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forest that could help in the battle against cancer largely falls to Osmar Barbosa Ferreira and a big pair of clippers.

The body responsible for managing Atlantic bluefin tuna has decided not to suspend the fishery in response to concerns over dwindling stocks.

Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Monday that the massive blackout which affected18 states of the country and neighboring Paraguay last week was caused by a short circuit.

Brazil's president says last week's massive blackouts in Latin America's largest nation were caused by a short-circuit in a transmission tower.

Clinipace, a global technology-driven clinical research organization , announced today that on October 26th, 2009 the company closed its acquisition of Worldwide Clinical Research, Inc.

Environmentalists have warned bluefin tuna are on their way to extinction after a international meeting of fishery ministry officials trimmed catch quotas but upheld continued hauls of the fish, prized in sushi dishes.

Overworked, starved and humiliated, the 30-year-old Brazilian woman cannot forget what it was like as a child laborer.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.

The lights are back on in Brazil's two largest cities after a massive power failure Tuesday evening.

Israel Aerospace Industries on Wednesday signed a $350 million contract to supply drones to Brazil police - marking the largest such deal between Israel and Brazil.

RIO DE JANEIRO a ' Brazil's president suggested Friday that bad weather may not have caused a massive blackout that left nearly a third of the population without electricity, saying he'll wait for an investigation to conclude how the outage happened.

An Argentine judge paved the way for gay marriage when she granted a homosexual couple permission to marry in a first for Latin America, the world's biggest Catholic region.

Nov 13 - Madonna uses her star power to help children in Rio de Janeiro's slums.

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Creepy ... one of the 1000 spiders found in the British man's suitcase. Photo: Brazilian Federal Police A British man has been arrested at Rio de Janeiro airport with 1000 live spiders in his luggage.

French aircraft maker Dassault on Thursday lashed out at Swedish and US competitors for a multi-billion-dollar jet fighter contract in Brazil, accusing them of playing dirty.

They were plunged into darkness at on Wednesday evening when the massive Itaipu plant which straddles the border of the two countries, suddenly went off line.

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil's federal police arrested in Rio de Janeiro an Englishman who intended to leave the country with 1 000 live spiders packed in two suitcases, the authorities said on Thursday.

The Associated Press reported that energy minister Edison Lobao said the hours-long blackout on 10 November was caused by heavy rain, lightning and strong winds that made transformers on a vital high-voltage transmission line short circuit, leading two other lines to go down as part of an automatic safety mechanism.

A power blackout in Brazil left two of its largest cities in darkness this week.

People eat by candlelight at a restaurant at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro during a blackout Tuesday.

New Zealand has made the shortlist for what would be the first World Heritage night sky reserve.

At issue is when or if Pentagon officials found out about contacts made between accused shooter Maj.

Nov 11 - A huge power cut brings chaos to Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro and cities in at least four other Brazilian states.

Madonna has been accompanied to Brazil by her rabbi. The '4 Minutes' singer flew into South America on a private jet on Monday and despite speculation her visit to Rio de Janeiro is to meet boyfriend Jesus Luz's family, she insists she is there to carry out charity work.

Dueling visits to Brazil by the presidents of Israel and Iran are showing the South American powerhouse's growing role in Mideast diplomacy.

A massive power failure threw Brazil's two largest cities into darkness Tuesday night along with other parts of Latin America's largest nation, affecting millions of people.

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Father Hidalberto Henrique Guimaraes, 48, is the fourth priest to be murdered in Brazil in less than five months.

Madonna is following a philanthropical trip to Africa with a stop in Rio to discuss social projects.

Israeli President Shimon Peres is to arrive in Brazil Tuesday for an official visit that comes just two weeks before the expected arrival of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Madonna, who has promoted school building in the African country Malawi, is now turning her star power onto projects to improve the notorious slums of Rio de Janeiro.

The Catholic Church's Indian Missionary Council, or Cimi, issued a statement Thursday retracting its earlier report that two teachers abducted last week were found dead in the southern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

RELATIVES of eight victims of an Air France flight that crashed en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris have filed lawsuits in the US and UK seeking damages.

Sao Paulo - In Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university student has been expelled after violent protests by students outraged at the short outfit she wore on campus.

The private Bandeirante University in Sao Bernardo do Campo, outside Sao Paulo, said 20-year-old Geisy Arruda disrespected "ethical principles, academic dignity and morality". Arruda made headlines last month when she had to be escorted away by police after she tried to go to class wearing the minidress.

London: India's financial hub Mumbai and political capital Delhi are likely to witness a significant jump in economic growth along with other emerging markets and make it to the league of the world's wealthiest cities by 2025, a report says.

Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes.

A passenger in silhouette watches an Air France aircraft at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport September 25, 2002 in Roissy, France.

Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS says.

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.

A series of power outages affecting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were the result of cyber attacks, 60 MINUTES has learned.

Remember Evanescence? You know,A the one with that gothA female lead singer with the haunting voice? Well, they're back, and with a bang.

The loan matures in 25 years and has a grace and disbursement period of five years.

MasterCard Worldwide, Credicard, Citibank's credit card administrator for the Brazilian market, and Redecard have announced the launch of MasterCard PayPass contactless payment technology in Rio de Janeiro for public transportation and other quick service merchants.

With nominations in five categories including album of the year, the Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Calle 13 is a favourite to win a Latin Grammy in Las Vegas - which might have producers of the international awards ceremony on edge.

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Bradley Brooks RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Published on Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009 12:47PM EST A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.

Reporting from Sao Paulo, Brazil - Who could resent the attention being showered on electric cars? Stylish and clean, they're the darling of the renewable-energy crowd, which is hailing the scheduled rollout of several e-powered models next year as a major blow against global warming.

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 4 : At least 1,819 places on Brazilian highways have been identified by the police where minor girls and teens offer sex to truck drivers, says a new report.

Pinheiro Neto Like their foreign counterparts, the recession has forced Brazilian lawyers to adapt to a market with fallen demand for lending and capital markets practices.

Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died.

Donatella Versace andA CiaraA were just two of the countless personalities that dazzled crowds during the recentA Oi Fashion Rocks weekendA in Rio de Janeiro.

What does Great Yarmouth have in common with Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans? Norfolk's premier resort is rightly proud of its beaches but none has quite the magic ring of the Copacabana.

Check out a few brand new photos of Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in Sao Paulo Brazil promoting the upcoming film "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer.

More than 1.5 million evangelical Christians joined Brazil's annual "March for Jesus" on Monday, an event sponsored by a church whose leaders recently returned after being imprisoned in the U.S. for money smuggling.

Nine people of 11 on a small plane survived a crash landing on a river in Brazil's Amazon rain forest after native Indians notified authorities, who dispatched a rescue mission, the government said on Friday.

Nine survivors of a plane crash in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have been discharged from hospital and returned to their homes, the air force said on Saturday.

Brazilian investigators released the final report of their investigation into the accident of TAM Flight 3054.

Brazil is set to lead the Latin American petrochemical industry out of the economic crisis with ambitious expansion plans EVEN IF the worst of the global recession is over, the recovery is set to be long.

Former defender Juvenal Amarijo, the sole holder of the Brazilian team in the 1950 World Cup that was alive, died on Friday at age of 86 in the northern city of Salvador, local television reported on Saturday.

Nine survivors of a plane crash in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have been discharged from hospital and returned to their homes, the air force said on Saturday.