Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
BRASILIA, Brazil - Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brasilia - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad obtained Brazil's support Monday for Tehran's controversial nuclear programme as long as it is for peaceful ends. We acknowledge Iran's right to develop a nuclear programme for peaceful ends, with fu...
L.A. Times - Latin America Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva warmly received Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brasilia today and defended Tehran's right to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Lula, who has taken flak for hosting the controversial Ahmadinejad, said a "just and balanced solution" should be found to international concerns about Iran's nuclear development program. Iran says its...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
BRASILIA, Brazil - For Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil provides some sorely needed political legitimacy for his increasingly isolated nation. For...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
BRASILIA, Brazil | Hundreds of Brazilians are protesting the impending visit of Iranian's president, citing his calls for Israel's destruction, his government's controversial nuclear activities and his declarations against homosexuals.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
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...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Brasilia - Brazil on Thursday weighed in on the Middle East peace process, asking Israel to scrap new home building plans in occupied East Jerusalem just prior to a visit from Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. In the statement, ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Brasilia - It's up to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to decide whether leftist Cesare Battisti, a suspect in four murders in the 1970s, is to be extradited to Italy. The Supreme Court approved the extradition on Wednesday. It then rule...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Audiences wept at the first screening of a movie charting the rise of Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from a childhood of poverty to a union leader on the verge of glittering political career. "Lula, Son of Brazil" will be officially released in January 2010, just before he stands down, but an audience that included a political luminaries got a special preview at Brasilia's...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
BRASILIA, Brazil -- 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.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Brasilia - Brazil's supreme court on Wednesday approved the extradition to Italy of former leftist militant Cesare Battisti, a suspect in four murders in the 1970s. But the court is yet to decide whether it just allows the extradition to happen, or w...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The premiere of a new movie about the early life of Brazil's phenomenally popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left an audience in tears -- and some critics on Wednesday predicting Oscar glory. "Lula, O Filho do Brasil" (Lula, Son of Brazil) was shown late Tuesday in a Brasilia film festival to a 1,300-seat theater dangerously packed well beyond capacity.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Brazil is ready to strengthen ties with Zimbabwe and help the country develop its vast mineral resources, the head of a visiting delegation from Brasilia has said.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has no future, his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres said in an interview published on Sunday. Speaking during an official visit to Brazil -- the first by an Israeli president in 43 years -- Peres told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia the hardline Iranian leader needed a more constructive attitude. Peres' South American trip is aimed at countering Iranian influence...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Participants at the international colloquium on teaching African and Diaspora history and culture, holding in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, have called on governments to deploy education and information as platforms to correct misinformation against the race. The call is coming on the heels of the Nigerian Senate assuring of its readiness to fast-track policy formulation aimed at addressing Nigeria's...
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