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TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Its spiritual home may be in Germany, but after enjoying significant growth in South America, Volkswagen will invest €2.3billion in new products and manufacturing capacity expansion in Brazil between 2009 and 2014. Having set a target to sell one million vehicles a year in the country within five years, Volkswagen will spend big to support the [...]
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360 Cities (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Panoramic photo by jan dolk . The entrance of the restaurant camarao marina and also departure for trips to the natural swimmingpools 800 meters from the restaurant. In the background you can see part of the biggest cashew tree in the world.
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Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner have both voiced their rejection to the elections in Honduras. Lula says, “The elections to be held on Nov. 29 will not be recognized and (otherwise) a very dangerous precedent will be set.”"
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Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has authorised spending six billion reais ($3.43 billion) to finance construction of 2,285 amphibious armoured vehicles for the Brazilian army, officials said.
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.
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Sify (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.
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Sports news (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Using technology won't solve the problems of subjectivity and accusations of bias which already exist in the beautiful game.
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iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brazil's president seems to have the economy in the country able to withstand other's economic problems. Luiz Incacio Lula da Silva or Lula led the Brazilian economy to a slight growth during 2007 at 5.4%. Plus the inflation rate dropped to 3.6%, and surplus was even up. [More...]
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El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado (Free subscription) | yesterday
What do ministers of culture do? This was the question asked by Slate political reporter Chris Beam back in 2007 when, in the same week, commandos raided the Iraqi culture minister’s house to arrest him for a 2005 assassination attempt on a fellow politician. Beam’s general conclusion: “They oversee grants for the arts, fund public [...]
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Deep Politics Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brazil will not recognize the winner of this weekend's election in Honduras as a legitimate president, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Thursday, setting the stage for a potential showdown with Washington. http://snipurl.com/tfwtb Honduras prepares for elections : Honduras prepares for election, but only US has said it will recognise the result. No Fair Election In Honduras Under Military...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The storms that have been lashing southern Brazil in the past few weeks have already caused 3.5 billion reais (2 billion U.S. dollars) in damage, local authorities said Friday. Moreover, the bad weather has led to a total of 11 deaths in the entire southern region. On Friday, the authorities of 15 municipalities decided to declare a state of emergency, raising the number of states which have declared...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Germany's Volkswagen on Friday announced plans to invest $3.5 billion in Brazil and said it hopes to be building a million vehicles a year in the country by 2014.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The favorite in Honduras' weekend presidential election said on Friday he will try to persuade the world and especially Brazil to recognize him if he wins to end Central America's worst political crisis in decades.
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Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
MANAUS, Brazil — Brazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent d...
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staffjam | 26/11/2009
A detailed look at the largest Oil Companies, how they operate and who the major players in the field are. The Oil Companies take a lot of Flak, but are they as bad as you think? Companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Royal Dutch Shell now produce only 10% of the world's oil and gas and hold a mere 3% of its reserves....
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staffjam | 23/11/2009
The recent revelations of a International Energy Administration whistleblower that the IEA may have distorted key oil projections under intense U.S. pressure is, if true (and whistleblowers rarely come forward to advance their careers), a slow-burning thermonuclear explosion on future global oil production. The Bush administration’s actions in pressuring the IEA to underplay the rate of decline from...