Provides the latest RSS feeds for Brazil News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Brazil Sun.com http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/cat/24437442923341f1/ en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 01:43:17 -0400 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:43:17 -0400 30 Santos coach Muricy Ramalho has admitted concern at mounting speculation linking his star striker Neymar with a move to Barcelona. The Catalan club's football director Raul Sanllehi had met with Santos officials during the week to negotiate a deal for the Brazil international striker, reports Xinhua. Ramalho believes the innuendo has had a negative impact on the 21-year-old. "I have said so ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214598780/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:50:02 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214598780/scat/24437442923341f1 Genrent do Brasil has been awarded a concession to build a 70 MW thermoelectric plant and temporarily supply electricity to the Peruvian Amazon city of Iquitos, authorities said. Peru's Private Investment Promotion Agency, or ProInversion, said the Brazilian company won the project, which carries an investment cost of $100 million, after "offering the lowest remuneration per power unit proposed, ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214597501/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:40:01 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214597501/scat/24437442923341f1 To increase the security at the upcoming Football World Cup in Brazil in 2014, the Brazil government will reportedly use a fleet of robots that are usually used to neutralize roadside bombs and inspect areas for traces of explosives. The battle-tested remote controlled iRobot 510 Packbots are able to climb stairs, submerge in a metre of water and have multiple high-resolution cameras and are the ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214596887/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:07 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214596887/scat/24437442923341f1 Brazil's military prepares for a massive undertaking ahead of FIFA soccer games next month. The country has one of the more sophisticated miltary in the world and will try to show Brazilians and foreigners that the country will be safe and ready for the FIFA World Cup 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016. With just a year away before the FIFA World Cup games in Brazil, Latin America's ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214608876/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 21:53:44 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214608876/scat/24437442923341f1 The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's Northern Hemisphere full of lights and the south almost solidly ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214608721/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 21:48:36 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214608721/scat/24437442923341f1 (Photo: Beatrice Murch) A pregnant Salvadoran, whose life is at risk due to her unborn baby, may not be able to abort due to the country's ban on therapeutic abortion. Doctors have told 21-year-old Name Beatriz, who is 23 weeks pregnant, that her life is in danger because she is suffering from Lupus, an autoimmune disease. Her child has also been diagnosed with anencephaly, a cephalic ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214607767/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:11:09 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214607767/scat/24437442923341f1 El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state Palestine-El Salvador, Politics, 8/26/2011 El Salvador Thursday recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, according to Palestinian officials. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thanked the president of El Salvador for the recognition, expressing hope that it will bolster bilateral relations. Foreign Minister Riyad Malki had ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214607753/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:48:31 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214607753/scat/24437442923341f1 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev started his visit to Brazil on Wednesday, February 20th. Medvedev had a meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Due to the injury that Rousseff received at the carnival, the Brazilian president was wearing only one shoe. On her other foot, Rousseff had a rubber sandal, which gave an informal touch to the official ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214607106/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:51:20 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214607106/scat/24437442923341f1 Brazilian army soldiers take part in a military exercise in preparation for the upcoming FIFA Confederations Cup, in a field near the National Stadium in Brasilia. (AP ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214606032/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:25:36 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214606032/scat/24437442923341f1 drugs . There is a growing belief that the current punitive-based approach has failed. It has visited a savage level of violence on Latin America as narco cartels, moving cocaine and cannabis into the US, have butchered and bribed their way through the continent. The killing and corrupting of public officials - judges, police, politicians - threatened, and still threatens, to demolish the ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214604856/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:22:05 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214604856/scat/24437442923341f1 Two shallow earthquakes -- one a magnitude 4.0 and the other a magnitude 3.3 -- struck early Saturday off the California coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The magnitude 4.0 temblor occurred at 6:46 a.m. PDT, 17 miles off the coast of Rio Dell in northern California at a depth of 11.8 miles. The magnitude 3.3 temblor was recorded 12 miles from ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214605081/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:13:55 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214605081/scat/24437442923341f1 SAO PAULO - Brazil is using more than 20,000 troops along its borders with 10 South American nations to reinforce security ahead of the Confederations Cup soccer tournament in June. The Defence Ministry says in a statement that 25,000 army, navy and air force troops began deployment on Saturday along the nearly 17,000 kilometres (10,600 miles) of border Brazil shares with its neighbours. ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214604374/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:22:50 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214604374/scat/24437442923341f1 Brazilian army soldiers take part in a military exercise in preparation for the upcoming FIFA Confederations Cup, in a field near the National Stadium in Brasilia. (AP ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214603721/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:11:57 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214603721/scat/24437442923341f1 Anna Kaiser By Anna Kaiser, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Heavy rains hit Rio de Janeiro in the early hours of the morning yesterday, causing the closure of Santos Dumont Airport and much flooding, major traffic and power outages around the Rio metropolitan area during commuter hours. Traffic delays continued throughout the day and into the night leaving Santos Dumont ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214602538/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:22:30 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214602538/scat/24437442923341f1 A federal court in Houston, Texas, has sentenced an Indian citizen and a Brazilian national to three years in prison for smuggling illegal migrants into the United States. Kaushik Thakkar and Fabano Amorim were also given two years of supervised release when their prison terms end. Prosecutors say the two charged Indian citizens up to $60,000 each and conspired to smuggle them into the ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214600897/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:44:03 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214600897/scat/24437442923341f1 NRI News: Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar, 33, an Indian, along with Brazilian national Fabiano Augusto Amorim were sentenced yesterday to serve 36 months in prison for their roles in smuggling undocumented migrants to the US for private financial gain, Acting Assistant US Attorney General Mythili Raman ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214600964/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:36:01 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214600964/scat/24437442923341f1 MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will actively seek new deals on the Latin American arms market, which it expects to reach a value of $50 billion in the next ten years, the head of a Russian Technologies (Rostec) high-tech state corporation delegation said on Saturday. "According to our expert estimates, the volume of the Latin American arms market will reach about $50 billion in ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214599956/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:20:55 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214599956/scat/24437442923341f1 A member of environmentalist organization Greenpeace takes part in a protest against the use of nuclear energy, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 27, 2013. (Xinhua/Rahel ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214598918/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:51:59 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214598918/scat/24437442923341f1 The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I made the offer for humanitarianism, instead of politics," Xinhua quoted da Silva, as saying while referring to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has been convicted of adultery and sentenced to death ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214598396/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:12:22 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214598396/scat/24437442923341f1 Brazilian teachers remain on strike in the municipal school system of the city of Sao Paulo after their counterparts in the Sao Paulo state system saw their strike betrayed by their union. Both sections of teachers have demanded significant wage increases, improved working conditions, smaller class sizes and a halt to the universal drive to privatize and cut public education. The walkouts are ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214597063/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:32 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214597063/scat/24437442923341f1 Former Real Madrid and Brazil international forward Julio Baptista revealed on Friday he is considering a return to Brazilian football.The 31-year-old, now at Spanish top-flight club Malaga, has been linked with a move to Internacional, managed by Brazil's 1994 World Cup-winning captain and former national coach Dunga."We haven't spoken but I know there is interest," Batista ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214596303/scat/24437442923341f1 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:04:27 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214596303/scat/24437442923341f1 Brazilian immigration authorities on Friday unveiled a set of favorite measures aimed at bringing in more foreign professionals.According to the new regulations published by the National Immigration Council, skilled foreigners can receive a temporary visa allowing them to work immediately for a 60-day term, during which they can present all required papers.The new policy differed strikingly from ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214595588/scat/24437442923341f1 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:57:53 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214595588/scat/24437442923341f1 UK Government Minister Ken Clarke is leading the UK and Northern Ireland's largest ever Healthcare Technology and Life Sciences delegation to Brazil. Twenty eight companies will travel to Sao Paulo to attend Hospitalar (21 – 24 May), the largest healthcare exhibition in South America, which is expecting to attract around 90,000 visitors – as well as taking part in the trade ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214594973/scat/24437442923341f1 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:26:20 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214594973/scat/24437442923341f1 Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214594895/scat/24437442923341f1 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:22:11 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214594895/scat/24437442923341f1 (file photo) Brazilian diplomat Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo has been elected the new director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Brazilian authorities announced Tuesday. The WTO is expected to make the official announcement Wednesday, but Brazil's Foreign Ministry confirmed Azebedo's victory in the election, taking at least 93 votes, more than the 80 necessary to win. ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214594932/scat/24437442923341f1 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:15:44 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214594932/scat/24437442923341f1 (MENAFN) Brazil's Central Bank President, Alexandre Tombini, stated that in 2013, the country's economy will expand by 3 percent, from just 0.9 percent last year, reported Xinhua News.During the first quarter, Brazil's economy expanded by 1.05 percent compared with 0.63 percent in 2012's same period.Tombini attributed this year's expected growth to strong household ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214593905/scat/24437442923341f1 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:44:57 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214593905/scat/24437442923341f1 RIO DE JANEIRO, May 17 2013 (IPS) - As Brazil prepares to host several sporting mega-events, human rights abuses and authoritarian interventions by the authorities are going on behind the scenes, favouring major urbanisation projects and stadium remodelling, a study ... http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214591733/scat/24437442923341f1 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:23:25 -0400 http://www.brazilsun.com/index.php/sid/214591733/scat/24437442923341f1