Distrito Federal (Brazil)

Ahmadinejad's Visit to Brazil: How Brasília and Teheran Are Using Each Other

"Ahmadinejad, respect the human rights and don't come back here again," read a message in a banner dragged through the skies over Rio de Janeiro beaches this Saturday. Shown between two rainbows, the symbol of the gay movement,...

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Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor. The daily newspaper O Globo reports that Niemeyer is...

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Palestinian Leader Abbas in Brazil Right After Peres and Just Before Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has arrived in Brazil this Wednesday night. He already had dinner with Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and starting today should be received...

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Brazil court backs Battisti extradition, but Lula has final say (AFP)

BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil's supreme court Wednesday authorized the extradition of Italian ex-militant Cesare Battisti, wanted for murders dating from the 1970s, but left President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with final say in the...

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Argentina makes deal to buy 20 aircraft manufactured by Embraer

Renata Giraldi e Mariana Jungmann Brasília - Brasilia - The Brazilian Aeronautics Company (Embraer) will sell 20 Embraer 190 AR to the Argentine government. The purchase involves about $ 700 million. Part of the funding, about...

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Movie about President Lula opens Brasilia film festival

BRASILIA, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- The 42nd Brasilia Festival of the Brazilian Cinema opened Tuesday with a screening of Bruno Barreto's "Lula, O Filho do Brasil"(Lula, the Son of Brazil), a biographical movie about President Luiz...

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Argentina's president will visit Brazil on Wednesday

BRASILIA, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- The president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, will pay an official visit to Brasilia on Wednesday, where she will discuss a solution to the growing commercial differences between both countries...

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Ahmadinejad's Visit to Brazil: Congress Divided, New Protests Planned

Brazilian president's special adviser for International Affairs, Marco Aurélio Garcia, told reporters this Tuesday, November 17, in Brazilian capital Brasília, that the visit of Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to...

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Guardian, Chr. Sci. Monitor, Wires, etc: Brazil’s forest ministers say Amazon burning, clearing...

What’s this? Stories spurred by what looks like good news from Brazil’s Amazon about the rate of deforestation? In advance of next month’s post-Kyoto summit meeting in Copenhagen, Brazil’s President Lula and his ministers...

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AMERICA/BRAZIL - 102nd training course for missionaries working in Brazil ends; 23 missionaries ...

Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The closing celebration of the 102nd course sponsored by the Center for Intellectual Education (Cenfi) was recently held in the Missionary Cultural Center of Brasilia. The Cenfi organizes courses to...

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