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SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--The pace of consumer inflation in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, slowed in the four weeks ended Dec. 7, as key prices decelerated in the period, the Fipe research foundation said Wednesday.
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has been hit by severe floods for the second time in less than a week. Local media report that six people have died in mudslides caused by heavy rain.
Heavy rain brought Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo grinding to a halt on Tuesday and reportedly claimed the lives of six people in landslides.
More than 11,000 people have died at the hands of authorities in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo since 2003. The rights group says the cities' police forces are fraught with mafia-like corruption. Reporting from Bogota, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil -- The police killing earlier this year of 22-year-old clerk and expectant father Jose Carlos Barbosa in a Rio de Janeiro slum was anything but an ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Authorities arrested five men and one woman accused of tunneling their way to nearly $6 million over the weekend while Brazil was gripped with football fever, but detectives recovered only a tiny fraction of the stolen cash, police said Tuesday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Police in two of Brazil's major cities, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, routinely execute criminal suspects, Human Rights Watch alleged Tuesday.
One of the big challenges for Brazil before it hosts the 2016 Olympics is getting a handle on violent crime. The major cities — Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo — have long been plagued by murderous gang violence. But a new Human Rights Watch report claims Brazilian police have met violence with violence. Daniel Wilkinson, one of the report's authors, talks to Steve Inskeep about police using ...
Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.
Telefonica has never been anything short of ambitious when it comes to its investment in the Latin American telecom market. Part of that ambition continues to be seen in Brazil where the Spain-based telco plans to invest "more than" $1.14 billion in the region in 2010. Speaking to the media at an event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Telefonica's CEO Antonio Carlos Valente said this week that "the ...
SÃO PAULO: In November, citizens of São Paulo were treated to an unusual celebration. With the accompaniment of drums and cymbals, a group of Brazilian students performed a lion dance to mark the first anniversary of the Confucius Institute.
What's Your Reaction? SAO PAULO — Brazilian media report that thieves tunneled their way to a money transport firm and made off with nearly $6 million.
Owens Corning , a leading global producer of residential and commercial building materials, glass fiber reinforcements and engineered materials for composite systems, today announced the addition of glass fiber knitting equipment at its facility in Rio Claro, northwest of Sao Paulo in Brazil, doubling its capacity for making fiberglass technical fabrics.
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- The Brazilian financial ministry announced Wednesday it will allow local banks to issue long term bonds in the local market. The government plans to diversify local banks funding with the long term debts instrument.
SAO PAULO (AP) - Thieves who spent months tunneling from a rented house to an armored car company's safe made off with nearly $6 million over the weekend, making their getaway as season-ending football matches virtually shut down Brazil.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- British gas giant BG Group announced with its partners that tests of the Iara well in the Santos Basin off the Brazilian coast proved the exploration potential.
SAO PAULO - Authorities say they have dismantled a U.S. visa scam in Brazil that raked in about $53 million from 4,500 victims since 2002. Eleven suspects were arrested in four Brazilian states.The U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo says the suspects victimized B...
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