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  • Santos coach concerned at Neymar reports

    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 ...

  • Brazilian firm to build thermal plant in Peru

    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 ...

  • Bomb-detecting robots to boost security at Football World Cup 2014 in Brazil

    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 ...

  • Brazil launches biggest military operation to check drug human trafficking

    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 ...

  • Brazil beefs up security for Confederations Cup

    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 ...

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The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes

The last few years have witnessed an intriguing splurge of glossy-gritty remakes of classic 70s American shockers, beginning with Marcus Nispels music-video-spin on Tobe Hoopers seminal The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973). Since then, we have seen revisions of John Carpen ... ...

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  • Rains Cripple Transportation in Rio Daily

    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 ...

  • Indian Brazilian Nationals Sentenced in US for Human Smuggling

    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 ...

  • Indian Brazilian sentenced to 3 years for smuggling migrants to US

    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 ...

  • Russia Seeks New Arms Deals on Growing Latin American Market

    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 ...

  • Protest against use of nuclear energy in Brazil

    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 ...

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