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  • Brazil Protests Proceed as Smaller Cities Join

    SAO PAULO/FORTALEZA Protesters blocked roads in Sao Paulo and marched toward a stadium hosting a major international soccer game in Brazil's northeast on Wednesday in a growing wave of nationwide demonstrations against poor public services, inflation and other woes in Latin America's biggest country. After more than a week, the biggest series of protests to sweep Brazil in more than two ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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Crazy Heart [Blu-Ray]

Crazy Heart [Blu-Ray]

Jeff Bridges has been among the most underappreciated of actors, at least in terms of being showered with awards. Prior to winning the Best Actor Oscar (and just about every other major acting award) for Crazy Heart, he had been nominated four times since his breakthrough role in 1 ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Brazil protests two cities back down over bus fare increases

    Two of Brazil's biggest cities have backed down over planned bus fare rises after six days of continuous protesting in some of the most widespread public demonstrations in a ...

  • New clashes in Brazil security forces deployed

    Brazilian protesters outraged over spending on next year's World Cup clashed with police, as the government deployed elite forces to contain the ...

  • Brazil to deploy special forces

    Brazil is to deploy federal police special forces in five major cities in an effort to stem a week of protests against poor public services, corruption and the high cost of staging the 2014 football World ...

  • Soccer March Preceded by Protests in Fortaleza Brazil

    Brasilia, June 19 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of demonstrators marched today on avenues of the Brazilian city of Fortaleza and collided with the police in the proximities of the stadium Arena de Castelao, which receives one of the matches for the Confederations Soccer Cup. The protestants started the march in the Airport Avenue and later they went on the Alberto Craviero, leading to the Arena de ...

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