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  • Widespread anti-graft protests rock Brazil Widespread anti-graft protests rock Brazil

    SAO PAULO, Brazil - Anti-graft protests swept Brazil's main cities as some 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets against alleged mis-governance, forcing President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday to acknowledge the need for better public services and effective administration. The assurance from Rousseff came a day after biggest protests rocked at least ten Brazilian cities, including Sao ...

  • Brazil protests will calm down Blatter hopes

    FIFA president Sepp Blatter denied that the Confederations Cup and World Cup are the causes for mass protests across Brazil. Demonstrations, which began last week in response to rise in public transport fares, have turned into a nation-wide rally against bad governance and corruption, reports Xinhua. Many marchers expressed their anger at the billions of dollars spent on new football stadiums ...

  • Brazil to produce H1N1 flu vaccine

    Brazil plans to produce vaccines against the influenza H1N1 virus, Health Minister Alexandre Padilha said. Nationwide production of the vaccine will help the country have an easier and faster access to the drug in case of an epidemic, he said Tuesday. "When Brazil has the technology, no economic crisis, exchange rate fluctuations, nor unilateral decision from a company can put patient ...

  • Protestors hack Brazil World Cup 2014 website

    Protestors have reportedly hacked the official website for the Brazil Football World Cup 2014 and replaced the site with a video of a violent police response to a peaceful protest. According to News.com.au, the FIFA website was replaced with an embedded YouTube video, showing protesters marching, before riot police release tear gas and fire on the protesters with rubber bullets. The report ...

  • Rousseff proposes new regulatory framework for Brazil mining

    President Dilma Rousseff has proposed a new regulatory framework for mining in Brazil, one of the world's biggest producers of iron, bauxite, gold, nickel, manganese and other minerals. Rousseff said her plan calls for a new government agency that would regulate mining activity and create a new concessions regime. The new concessions "will run for 40 years, extendable for another 20", and the ...

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  • Dali fruit watercolours fetch over $1 mn at auction

    Fourteen watercolour fruit studies by Salvador Dali were sold for the first time Tuesday at an auction in London, fetching a total of 726,000 pounds ($1.13 million). The series of works by the Spanish surrealist took centre stage at the Bonhams auction, which also included Impressionist and modern masterworks by Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and others. In these previously unseen ...

  • Cristiano Ronaldo denies cheating on Irina Shayk

    Cristiano Ronaldo has said that he did not cheat on his model girlfriend Irina Shayk with Brazilian model Andressa Urach. A newspaper report had carried a story that Urach - also known as Miss BumBum - had claimed that she had a fumble with him that went on for hours, the Mirror reported. The 28-year-old footie ace said termed the story as fiction and forgery and that he was in an interview ...

  • Thousands of Brazilians take to streets protesting against high taxes

    Tens of thousands of Brazilians protest in Sao Paolo. Mass protests have been mushrooming across Brazil since demonstrations called last week by a group angry over the high cost of a woeful public transport system. Sebastiao Moreira / ...

  • Brazil sends force to quell protest

    Brazil's government says it will deploy a national security force to five major cities after a wave of protests which has seen almost 250,000 people demand better public ...

  • Brazil trade looks to score from the World Cup

    Brazil is using football, one of its greatest passions to boost trade between the South American nation and Europe. The 2014 World Cup takes place in Brazil next June and July, a few weeks after the European elections and the nation is looking to use the sport to increase trade and investment. As Latin America's top economy, Brazil is also the worlds sixth largest and the fifth largest ...

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