Sunday 5th February, 2012

• Brazilian firm makes oil find

  Brazil News.Net

  State-controlled energy giant Petrobras announced the discovery of an oil and natural gas accumulation in the Solimoes basin of Brazil's Amazon region. The find was made during drilling of the ...

• Crime erupts in Brazilian city as cops go on strike

  Brazil News.Net

  The Brazilian city of Salvador registered a total of 29 homicides over a 30-hour span, amid a crime wave caused by a police strike, officials said. The Public Safety Secretariat of Salvador, ...

• Ferdinand 'frustrated' over Terry racism row

  Brazil News.Net

  Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has expressed anger over what his family has had to endure following the racial abuse allegedly suffered by his brother Anton Ferdinand at the hands of John ...

• Blatter, guest of honour in South America

  FIFA

  Joseph S. Blatter visited South America in order to take part in meetings at CONMEBOL’s Extraordinary Congress in the Paraguayan capital Asuncion. Blatter, who was accompanied on the trip by ...

• Police strike sparks crime wave in Brazil

  ABC Australia

  Brazil Brazilian security forces took control of the state of Bahia at the weekend after a police strike led to a spike in murders and other violent crimes.A force of 2,600 army, navy and federal ...

• Neymar scores 100th career goal in Brazil

  General Sources

  SAO PAULO (AP)—Palmeiras rallied with two late goals to spoil Neymar’s 20th birthday celebrations and 100th career goal on Sunday in the Sao Paulo state championship. In the Rio de ...

• Report: 78 killed in police strike in Brazil state

  Richmond Times-Dispatch

  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said Sunday, although they added that the situation ...

• Violence escalates after police strike in Brazil

  WHP CBS 21

  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian media report 78 people have been murdered in and around the northeastern city of Salvador since the start of a state police strike there five days ago.The local ...

• Army sent in to Brazil state after police walkout

  CBC News

  Army soldiers patrol Salvador, northeast Brazil, where the murder rate has climbed 129 per cent since a third of the state's police force went on ...

• Fear in Bahia, Brazil, Is Emptying ATM Machines and Supermarket Shelves

  Brazzil Magazine

  Sunday, February 5, 2012. 7.30 am. A side road in a residential area of a city of Bahia state, in northeastern Brazil. "I am gonna kill you viado (queer)," shouts a poor guy in front of my ...

• Brazilian military takes charge in Bahia

  West Australian

  BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazilian security forces took control of Bahia on Sunday, patrolling key intersections in the state capital Salvador after a police strike led to a major spike in murders and ...

• Crime erupts as police strike in Brazil's Bahia: reports

  West Australian

  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A police strike in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia sparked a wave of murders and other violence in World Cup host-city Salvador, local media reported, just two weeks ...

• Banyana to warm up in Brazil

  IOL

  International matches in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this month will prepare the SA women's football team for the Cyprus Women's Cup, according to Banyana Banyana coach Joseph ...

• Eight companies find signs of oil in Brazil

  Nasdaq

  Seven oil companies have notified the Brazilian Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) that they have already discovered signs of hydrocarbon resources so far this year. Among ...

• Bolivia: Thousands of Families Affected by Rains

  Prensa Latina

  La Paz, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) The torrential rains in Bolivia have affected in recent days about 6,000 families, especially in the departments of La Paz, Oruro, Chuquisaca, Cochabamba and Potosi, ...

• Brazil's poor seem left behind in growth spurt, observers say

  General Sources

  Reporting from Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil— Two children ran through the rubble, ducking under smoke pouring from a building that was still burning. Everywhere were signs that people had ...

• Armed Forces Arrive in Salvador: Daily

  The Rio Times

  Laura Madden By Laura Madden, Contributing Reporter SALVADOR, BRAZIL – The death toll after the military police (PM) of Bahia went on strike has already reached 56 as of Saturday evening, ...

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