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Rio make it an Olympic first for South America

AFP Global Edition 55 days ago

Rio de Janeiro's dream of bringing the Olympics to South America for the first time became reality here on Friday when they won the vote to host the 2016 edition. The Brazilian city saw off Madrid - by 66 votes to 32 ...

Latin American tunes sway London's Royal Opera

Reuters Life! Online Report 55 days ago

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's Royal Opera House will sway to the sounds of South America with a new work based on a short story by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende. "Letters of a Love Betrayed," composed by Jamaican-born, British-based musician Eleanor Alberga, ...

Rio 2016 ambassador Pele eyes 'fourth World Cup'

AFP Global Edition 57 days ago

Soccer legend Pele told AFP here on Wednesday that if the IOC votes to give the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro it would be like winning a fourth World Cup for him. Pele arrived in Copenhagen on Tuesday in his ...

Africa, S.America vow to boost cooperation

AFP Global Edition 59 days ago

Leaders representing more than 60 African and South American countries signed agreements at a summit here aimed at creating a new regional financial system for the two continents to gain more clout and boost development. The second South America-Africa summit, hosted by ...

Fiery talk, lofty ideas at Africa-South America summit

Reuters US Online Report World News 60 days ago

PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) - Anti-imperialist rhetoric and ambitious ideas flowed on Sunday at a summit dominated by South America's leftist leaders and some of Africa's best-known former anti-colonial fighters. Flanked by the likes of Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe and Luiz Inacio Lula ...

Africa, South America pledge new era of cooperation

AFP Global Edition 60 days ago

Leaders representing over 60 African and South American countries backed a new regional financial system Sunday for the two continents to gain more clout and boost development. The second South America-Africa summit reaffirmed its resolve to establish a South-South union that would ...

Venezuela ASA Summit

AP News 60 days ago

Leaders of Africa and South America attend the Africa and South America, ASA, Summit in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Copyright 2009 AP News

Kadhafi calls for 'NATO of the south' at Venezuela summit

AFP Global Edition 61 days ago

With key energy accords on the table at the second South America-Africa (ASA) summit here, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi upped the ante Saturday with calls for the creation of a "NATO of the South" by 2011. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has ...

South America-Africa summit opens in Venezuela

AFP Global Edition 61 days ago

The second South America-Africa summit opened here Saturday, with heads of state from both regions seeking to sign key accords on a range of issues, including energy cooperation. The summit, which follows a first meeting in 2006 in Nigeria, is being on ...

Chavez seeks "anti-imperial" Africa front

Reuters US Online Report World News 63 days ago

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hopes to widen anti-U.S. alliances when he hosts African leaders on a Caribbean island this weekend, but his radicalism and Brazil's greater economic clout put limits on his appeal. The anti-empire message of the socialist ...

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