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  • Paraguay becomes South Americas used car paradise

    Paraguay has become the main destination in South America for used cars from Japan, the US and other countries, thanks to new regulations aimed at making it easier to import automobiles so low-income consumers can purchase vehicles. Used cars are all the rage in Paraguay, where vehicles that have been shipped from thousands of kilometers away are put to use as soon as they are repaired and made ...

  • Corinthians beat Santos to win Campeonato Paulista

    Corinthians won their 27th Campeonato Paulista title after a 1-1 draw in the second leg of the final against Santos. The result at the Vila Belmiro stadium Sunday gave the reigning FIFA Club World Cup champions a 3-2 aggregate victory, reports Xinhua. Cicero scored the opener for Santos just before the half-hour with a stunning left-foot volley before Danilo equalised two minutes later with a ...

  • Mexico aims to boost trade with Brazil

    Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade visited his Brazilian counterpart, Antonio Patriota, with whom he agreed to promote a series of business meetings to boost bilateral trade. Meade told a press conference that, on the topic of trade, "right now that is Mexico's goal", but that at present there is no intention to negotiate free-trade agreements with Brazil. "There's a mutual ...

  • U.S. womens soccer stars to Brazil

    When it comes to foreign aid, sending soccer players to Brazil might seem a bit like shipping coals to Newcastle.But when those players are women, the story is different. As part of the State Department’s Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative, retired U.S. women’s soccer players Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain (yes, the one who tore off her shirt) are traveling to ...

  • Brazilian Jumper Threatens to Retire Before 2016 Olympics

    Rio de Janeiro, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The Brazilian jumper Maureen Maggi could end her career before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro-2016 due to inattention, reports O Globo newspaper. Maggi, Olimpic golden medal in Beijing 2008, claimed "a structure behind me" before the appointment of Rio, if not "I retire because it would not be fair to the medal I have and it will be no ...

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The Day After Tomorrow [DVD]

The Day After Tomorrow [DVD]

Roland Emmerichs The Day After Tomorrow is most interesting when viewed as the final entry in a loose trilogy of blockbusters about well, destruction. The first film was Emmerichs big breakthrough, Independence Day (1996), in which most of Earths populati ... ...

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  • Brazilian president denies plan to end subsidy to poor

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Monday strongly denied rumors that the government plans to end an income subsidy program called Bolsa Familia."I want to make it clear that my government's commitment to Bolsa Familia is strong, deep and definitive," Rousseff said at a completion ceremony of an oil tanker platform in northeastern Brazil."We will always guarantee the ...

  • Brazilian president says 4 million jobs created in two years

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Monday 4.139 million full jobs have been created since the beginning of her administration in January 2011.In her weekly radio show "Breakfast with the President," Rousseff said the achievement was much more significant against the backdrop of the global economic woes, which had seen many developed countries struggling with rising ...

  • Brazil China to cooperate on digitalization of historical archives

    Antunes said that Brazil can learn a lot from China when it comes to digital preservation of archives, as China has much more experience on this ...

  • Pregnant Salvadoran woman Beatriz seeks life-saving abortion in El Salvador

    The pregnant woman has lupus and doctors say her baby has anencephaly, a total or partial absence of the brain and the skull. Source: Quest Newspapers A pregnant, chronically ill Salvadoran woman testified before the Supreme Court to urge the justices to allow her to proceed with an an abortion that could save her life. Abortions are strictly forbidden in El Salvador, where the sentence for ...

  • Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations meet Obama in US

    Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, and meet with US President Barack Obama in the United States on June 7-8, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced Tuesday.According to Qin, Xi's visits are at the invitation of President of Trinidad and Tobago Anthony Carmona, President of Costa Rica Laura ...

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