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  • 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 ...

  • Brazil midfielder Paulinho denies transfer rumours

    Brazil international midfielder Paulinho has denied speculation that he is on the verge of a move to Europe. The 24-year-old Corinthians star is reportedly on the radar of Inter Milan, Shakhtar Donetsk and Chelsea, among other European clubs, reports Xinhua. Speaking after Corinthians' 3-2 aggregate victory over Santos in the final of the Campeonato Paulista Sunday, Paulinho said he would ...

  • 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 ...

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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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  • 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 ...

  • Zim to Boost Asia-South America Rates in Mid-June

    will raise rates for all shipments on its trade from Asia to the east coast of South America, starting June 15.The increase will be $500 per 20-foot container and $1,000 per 40-foot container, the carrier said.Containerized exports from Far East Asia to South and Central ...

  • Man Linked by U.S. to Hezbollah Is Arrested in Brazil

    RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Brazilian police have arrested a businessman listed by the United States as a member of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group, under suspicion of operating a fraudulent scheme in the clothing industry -- a far cry from the arms, drugs, explosives and counterfeit bills that American officials have suspected him of trafficking in during the ...

  • Fr. Lombardi Brazil Expected to Be Popes Only 2013 International Trip

    Spokesman Also Confirms Benedict XVI's Move Back to the VaticanVATICAN CITY, April 25, 2013 (Zenit.org) - During a press conference at the Foreign Press Association headquarters in Rome, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, stated that the Pope's upcoming trip to Brazil for World Youth Day will be the only international trip for Pope Francis this ...

  • Penn urges US to pressure Bolivia to free US man

    WASHINGTON -- Actor Sean Penn is urging the U.S. government to pressure Bolivia to free an American businessman jailed there since 2011.Penn says international pressure is what Bolivian President Evo Morales needs to free Jacob Ostreicher of New York.Ostreicher was granted house arrest in December after being jailed 18 months without being charged with any crime. He was arrested in a money ...

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