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Five Deaths One Million Infected by Flu in Bolivia
La Paz, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Five dead and more than a million patients is the balance of an influenza epidemic in Bolivia, the result of a wave of winter from earlier this month, reported the Ministry of Health. According to the health minister, Juan Carlos Calvimontes, the deaths are due to infection by the H2N3 flu virus, following a reported outbreak in the capital and in the peripheral ...
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Brazils biggest protest in 20 years continues
Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of Sao Paulo to protest poor public services, police violence and government ...
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Canada deploying 34 peacekeepers to serve with Brazilians in Haiti
Canada is sending 34 troops to Haiti to serve as a peacekeepers with a Brazilian battalion, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday. MacKay announced the deployment in Ottawa alongside Calgary MP Diane Ablonczy and Gen. Tom Lawson, Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff. They will deploy from June 21 until December 2013, MacKay said. "Members of the Canadian Armed ...
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Priest Biking to Fundraise for Poor Brazilian Kids Going to WYD
Sending Funds to His Brother, a Missionary PriestLONDON, June 14, 2013 (Zenit.org) - A trio of brothers are showing family and Church solidarity with a 100-mile bike ride fundraising effort to support kids from a poor region of Brazil who want to attend next month's World Youth Day.Aid to the Church in Need reported that Father James Shekelton and his brother John will set off from the ...
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Brazil protests a love for soccer but not the pricetag
New soccer stadiums dotting Brazil have become iconic of the frustration on the streets: The government is investing billions in sports but not schools or ...
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Protests continue in Sao Paulo troops sent to five Brazilian cities
Reuters © A demonstrator jumps over trash set afire during protests against poor public services, police violence and government corruption, in Sao Paulo June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Victor ...
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Pacific Potash CapitalAsia ink Brazil potash deal
Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:29pm EDT SAO PAULO, June 19 (Reuters) - CapitalAsia Investment on Wednesday signed an agreement to buy potash from Canadian junior miner Pacific Potash Corp's project in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, if it becomes commercially viable. Pacific Potash said in a statement it wants to build a mine in the region "as soon as possible," as Brazil's giant ...
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Paraguay Military Men Involved in Arms Munitions Trafficking
Asuncion, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Documents and information made public today involved the War Materials Directorate of the Armed Forces and military chiefs in a denounced arms and munitions trafficking event. The press spread copies of authorizations and purchase orders of war munitions and grenades issued by the aforementioned directorate to a private company that register an amount superior to ...
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On Brazil Look Out Below
A roller coaster at Brazil's Beto Carrero World. Brazil has been on a roller coaster ride for the past three years, most of it downhill. The economy ...
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NYSE partner ATG file for approval to create Brazil exchange
Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:06pm EDT * Company expects new bourse to start operating next year * DirectEdge unveiled similar projects a year ago * Shares of sole Brazil exchange BM&FBovespa sink 3.5 pct SAO PAULO, June 19 (Reuters) - NYSE Euronext and Americas Trading Group are seeking Brazilian regulatory approval to open a new stock exchange, and the venture's officers said on Wednesday they ...
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Comparison of mass protests in Brazil and Turkey
Large-scale protests have engulfed Turkey and Brazil, which are thousands of miles apart, but share some traits such as being new democracies with a growing middle class. Here's a look at the protests in both countries, highlighting the similarities and differences in how they started and ...
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Japan looking for Italian tonic after poor display against Brazil
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
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Report Okla. teen vanishes while hiking in South America
CBS affiliate KWTV, authorities in South America believe the teen may have been kidnapped. U.S. officials with the American Embassy in Ecuador told the station that they are monitoring the situation closely. In a phone interview, Chris Reiger told the station that an extensive search is underway. He said the family was hiking on a mountain near their resort hotel when August walked ahead of the ...
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Early Spring 2013 Ushers in Yoga Retreats To Maui Bali and El Salvador
The Travel Yogi, specialist in international yoga retreats and yoga adventures, announces late winter/early spring yoga programs in Bali, Maui and El Salvador. "We are gearing up for a banner 2013 season," says Jennifer Hoodevik, founder and director. "We are riding the wave of an industry experiencing tremendous growth and we are responding." According to July 2012 ...
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Argentine president to visit Brazil
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will meet on Friday her Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner for talks on enhanced bilateral cooperation, Brazilian authorities said Wednesday.The Brazil-Argentina Business Council created during Rousseff's visit to Argentina on Jan. 31 will meet for the first time in Brasilia on Friday, a statement released Wednesday by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, ...
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Brazil Sends Federal Police to Suppress Protests
In Brazil's most populous city, Sao Paulo, 50,000 people massed at the main cathedral. While mostly peaceful, the demonstration followed protests that drew 250,00 people across the country Tuesday, with small bands of radicals splitting off to fight with police and break into stores. The Justice Ministry says the National Force special police will be sent to five of the six cities ...
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Brazils National Force to be deployed amid protests
Troops from Brazil's specialist police force have been deployed to five states, the ministry of justice announced, as another night of protests took place across the ...
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Protests get support from Brazilian soccer players
A demonstrator holds up a Brazilian flag in front of a group of protestors gathered in the main plaza of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy ...
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Bolivia and China Sign Millionaire Agreement
La Paz, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) The governments of Bolivia and China will sign today a bilateral cooperation agreement aimed at financing projects for development with a cost of near $10 million USD, said the foreign ministry. According to the communique, the Bolivian minister of Foreign Relations, David Choquehuanca, and Chinese Ambassador in Bolivia, Li Dong, will be in charge of the signing ...
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Brazil Transport Hikes Halted After Protests
Fernando Haddad, mayor of Sao Paolo. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia) The Brazilian capitals of Alegre, Pelotas, and Recife amongst others have agreed to scrap the controversial increase in public transport fares following massive ...
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China and Cuba seek greater cooperation
Xi Jinping said his country would like to work more closely with Cuba on international and regional issues. Xi told Cuba's visiting first vice president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, that China would like to forge a good partnership with Latin American and Caribbean nations, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The Chinese leader called for stronger cooperation between China and Latin ...
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Petrobras SINOPEC Letter of Intent
The letter of intent is based on SINOPEC's interest in examining the feasibility of setting up a joint venture with Petrobras for the implementation of Premium Refinery ...
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Brazil Falling Back Is It Time To Buy
Brazil has been an emerging super power, building in infrastructure and opportunities for nearly 40 million impoverished citizens to work their way into the middle class. But a shift is working its way through the economy; rising inflation, debt, and a weakening currency have stripped many in the middle class of that title. The tension boiled over last week when a small protest against bus-fare ...
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Brazil on guard for more protests
Brazil deployed special federal police on Wednesday to protect Confederations Cup venues, as mass "Tropical Spring" protests against government spending for the 2014 World Cup turn violent.A day after more than 250,000 people took to the streets of major cities in mostly peaceful rallies, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff tried to get ahead of a wave of protests and publicly vowed ...
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Why Brazilians are fed up
>Editor's note: James Montague is the author of When Friday Comes: Football, War and Revolution in the Middle East (deCoubertin Books). He is in Brazil for the Confederations Cup. Follow him @JamesPiotrBelo Horizonte, Brazil (CNN) -- At 11 pm, the tired and the injured gathered in Belo Horizonte for one last expression of discontent. More than a thousand sat in Praca Sete de Setembro, a ...
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Brazil fighting the good fight?
Brazil’s recent victory in a trade dispute with the US, which was resolved through the WTO is a victory, not just for the biggest economy in South America, but also for developing nations around the world, showing that the mechanisms of the WTO can be used to further their interests – although it will take years of fighting and unrelenting effort…
Brazil’s ongoing dispute with the United States over the subsidizing of cotton for producers in the US, looks like it may soon be resolved, as Brazil recently indicated it would hold off on slapping a range of 102 US goods with sanctions, if the US agreed to certain measures put forth by the South American country. Read more
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