Brazil’s President Elbows U.S. on the Diplomatic Stage
New York Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is drawing criticism for receiving Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his first state visit to Brazil.
Languages of the Americas: A Survival Guide to the Four Major Languages of the Americas: English, Spanish, Portuguese & French
New York Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is drawing criticism for receiving Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his first state visit to Brazil.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Brasilia - Several hundred people on Sunday protested the upcoming visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, taking him to task for his denial of the Holocaust. The protests, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, are expected to be followed by pr...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Officials disagree on whether governments should compensate people who were uprooted as children and sent overseas, where many were abused.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Thousands of Mexicans rallied to show support for "shadow president" Manuel Lopez Obrador -- who believes his country's top job was stolen from him in 2006 -- at the mid-point of his would-be presidential term. A 56-year-old leftist former Mexico City mayor, Lopez Obrador's hopes of leading this country of about 106 million were dashed (but not for long) when official results showed he lost...
France24 (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A laptop is now finding its place alongside a notebook and pen in schoolbags in Uruguay, the first and only country to offer an Internet-connected computers to all public primary school students. In the small town of Poquitos, some 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) north of Montevideo, about 20 students study The Odyssey by singing, drawing and even rewriting Homer's epic poem with the help of their apple...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Bermuda's highest court has struck down the conviction of a Florida woman who accidentally brought the ammunition magazine from her gun to the British island territory.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Motorcades, leaflet distribution and other mobilisation efforts failed to pull the expected crowd at the People’s Democracy mass rally held at Woodford Square, Port of Spain, yesterday.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
A large part of the world’s fate could be settled right here in Port of Spain in the next few days.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Dozens of people gathered at the Waterfront near the Hyatt Regency Trinidad in Port of Spain yesterday to get a glimpse of one of the two cruise ships leased for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) later this week.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
A POINT CUMANA MAN is the country’s latest road fatality after he died on arrival at the Port of Spain General Hospital after slamming into a concrete barricade.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Anya Ayoung Chee, the former beauty queen at the centre of a sex tape scandal, fired her New York publicist Mike Paul yesterday for ’misrepresenting her thoughts on the motives’ behind the release of the tape.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The Opposition party, the United National Congress, will be preparing a document to hand over to the Commonwealth Secretariat in hopes of painting a ’clear picture’ of what Trinidad and Tobago is really like, says Leader of the Opposition Basdeo Panday.
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Tamiflu should be made available to residents of affected communities instead of the ’essential decision makers’, Roodal Moonilal, Member of Parliament for Oropouche East, said yesterday.
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A 50-year-old man is fighting for his life at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex after being chopped about the body on Saturday afternoon.
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A POLICE OFFICER attached to the Morvant Police Station is said to be resting comfortably after an accident early yesterday cost him his right leg.
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wei08 | 11/10/2009
The host of a Brazilian TV crime show has been accused of ordering a series of execution-style murders to snuff out rival drug traffickers – and boost his own ratings. Police say that Wallace Souza, a former policeman who built a political career as the scourge of crime in the lawless Amazonas state, would feature their killings on his Canal Livre show. For years the show had an uncanny knack for being...
bharatbook | 11/10/2009
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