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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 11:02 am ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 1:35 pm ET
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.
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Los Angeles Times - Wed Dec 9, 3:11 am ET
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 ...
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - 2 hours 17 minutes ago
Owens Corning, a building materials maker, said Wednesday it would add more glass fiber knitting equipment at its factory in Rio Claro, which is northwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Engineering News-Record - Wed Dec 9, 3:44 pm ET
The government of Brazil has announced it is seeking bid proposals for a 317-mile high-speed rail line linking São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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The World - Wed Dec 9, 6:42 am ET
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.
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UPI - Wed Dec 9, 2:33 am ET
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.
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NPR - Tue Dec 8, 6:34 am ET
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 ...
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 8:27 pm ET
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.
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FierceTelecom - Wed Dec 9, 9:10 am ET
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 ...
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YaleGlobal - Wed Dec 9, 1:48 pm ET
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.
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The Huffington Post - Mon Dec 7, 10:14 am ET
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.
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 9, 8:00 am ET
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.
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Nasdaq - Wed Dec 9, 10:47 am ET
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.
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Jefferson City News Tribune - Wed Dec 9, 1:34 am ET
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.