Social forum ends in Brazil with vows to fight capitalism, domination by rich nations Leftists who converged in Brazil to protest what they ...
World Economic Forum honors Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for model leadership The World Economic Forum has honored Brazilian President Luiz ...
A dancer performs during the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Now in its 10th year, the social forum is the annual counterpoint to the World Economic Forum starting Wednesday in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. ...
Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, left, shakes hands with his South African counterpart Buyelwa Sonjica, second right, China's chief climate change official Xie Zhenhua, second left, and Brazil's Minister for Environment Carlos Minc before the start of a meeting in New Delhi, ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government pledged on Wednesday to spend 20.1 billion reais ($11.5 billion) to fund infrastructure and transportation works aimed at preparing the country to host the 2014 soccer World Cup. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as well as ...
FILE - This Jan. 21, 2008 file photo shows U.N. envoy to Haiti Hedi Annabi before a meeting with Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, unseen, at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told two French radio stations on ...
Brazil's government will decide which company is awarded a seven-billion-dollar contract for 36 high-tech fighter jets, a minister said Wednesday, after the air force backed a different supplier. "The final decision is still political," Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said in Geneva. "Obviously ...
Mayor of slide-hit city seeks precautionary closure of Brazil's 2 nuclear plants; toll at 75 The mayor of a mudslide-devastated city has urged a precautionary shutdown of Brazil's only nuclear power plants due to blocked highways while the death toll from flooding ...
20071219: BRASILIA, BRAZIL - Nelsinho Piquet (the youngest brazilian driver in Formula 1) meets with Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Nelsinho was test driver for Renault team for the 2007 season, and has been promoted to the race team for ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil will make its ambitious 2020 greenhouse gas emissions targets legally binding even though global climate talks failed this month, the country's environment minister said on Monday. "We will fully comply with the targets. It doesn't matter that Copenhagen ...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she is "thrilled" that a US father and his young son have been reunited after a five-year custody battle involving Brazil, and sent them warm wishes for the holidays. "I am thrilled that nine-year-old Sean Goldman ...
U.S. David Goldman, top, followed by his 9-year-old son Sean, gestures as he boards a plane at the Galeao airport, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. Brazilian relatives handed the boy over to his father after Brazil's Supreme Court ...
