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  • Real Madrid sign Casemiro

    Spanish football club Real Madrid has exercised its option of signing Sao Paulo loanee Casemiro on a permanent deal. The 21-year-old joined the Spanish giants on loan in January and made his Liga debut in a 3-1 victory over Real Betis at the Santiago Bernabeu April 19, reports Xinhua. A series of impressive performances for Real Madrid Castilla in Spain's second tier convinced club president ...

  • Paraguay becomes observer of the Alliance of the Pacific despite Brazil and Mercosur

    The Alliance of the Pacific announced this week that Paraguay had been accepted as an observer of the regional group. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos chair and host of the alliance summit in Cali made it official during the reading of the final ...

  • Brazil’s employment rate remains stable but job creation slowed in recent months

    Brazil's jobless rate rose slightly in April for the fourth straight month but remained near record lows, suggesting that tight labour conditions bolstered a gradual recovery and fed into inflation, statistics agency IBGE said this ...

  • Rapes in Brazil Spur Class and Gender Debate

    A wave of rapes on public transportation in Rio de Janeiro has led to the creation of women-only cars on trains, but some women say not enough is being ...

  • Soccer-Brazils Santos decide to sell Neymar - club

    Neymar to one of two unnamed soccer clubs, according to the club's official Twitter feed. Neymar will have the right to choose which proposal to take, Santos said. "In the face of the offers and the player's contract, the management committee of the club decided to sell the player," the statement said. "We await Neymar and his father at the Vila Belmiro stadium to ...

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Hanna

Hanna

In Hanna, British director Joe Wright puts a compelling spin on the conventional action thriller by imbuing the violence with an underlying sense of sadness and pathos. Known primarily for his adaptations of literary romantic dramas such as Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Atonement ... ...

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  • Brazil officials must register gay unions as marriages

    By The Associated Press Brazilian notaries public must register same-sex civil unions as marriages if the couple requests it, the country's National Council of Justice said Tuesday. The council that oversees the country's judiciary said in a statement that notaries public cannot refuse to marry gay couples or convert a same-sex civil union into a marriage if that's what the pair ...

  • Brazils Santos Decide to Sell Neymar-Club

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  • Bolivia Describes as Failure DEA Anti Drug Fight in LatAm

    La Paz, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian government described today as a failure the anti-drug fight of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Latin America. In a press conference, the minister of the government, Juan Ramon Quintana, accused that organization of being responsible for thousands of fatalities, and the increase of money laundering and weapon sales in the region. He said that ...

  • Brazil to auction off largest-ever oil find

    BRAZIL plans to sell the right to explore and develop its largest-ever oil discovery in October, auctioning an offshore petroleum prospect that is expected to produce about 12 billion barrels of oil over 35 years. The sale of the Libra prospect, which Brazil on Thursday said would be held a month earlier than expected, will be the first under new "production-sharing" rules that tighten ...

  • Brazil patient dies in ambulance fall

    AN elderly Brazilian man suffering from Alzheimer's disease has fallen from an ambulance and died. Joao Pinheiro health department head Graciele Gomes da Silva says 82-year-old Luis Jose Lima apparently opened the ambulance's back door, fell to the highway and was hit by an oncoming car that left the scene. Silva says only after the ambulance continued for 10 kilometres did the driver ...

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