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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.
SAO PAULO (AP) - Police have arrested six men accused of tunneling their way to nearly $6 million over the weekend while Brazil was gripped with football fever.
olice 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.
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.
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil's economy likely continued to rebound from a recession earlier this year as domestic demand has sparked a return to growth in Latin America's largest economy.
SAO PAULO — Authorities say they have dismantled a U.S. visa scam in Brazil that raked in abou...
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's lights will stay on whether or not the planned Belo Monte hydroelectric dam ever sees the light of day, some top sector analysts said Monday.
Sao Paulo - Police in the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Rai de Janeiro regularly use excessive violence and resort to extra- judicial executions, a human rights group said in a report released Tuesday. Police officers in Rio de Janeiro and Sao P...
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Brazilian government will extend tax cuts on computers and subsidies for a 44 billion reais ($25 billion) credit line by the National Development Bank for capital good purchases, O Estado de Sao Paulo reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
SAO PAULO — Authorities arrested 11 people Monday in an alleged U.S. work-visa scam that raked in more than $50 million from thousands of Brazilians since 2002. Some of those scammed went to the U.S. and wound up as illegal immigrants because promised jobs didn't exist.
SAO PAULO (AP) — It was a weekend on which most of Brazil was transfixed by season-ending soccer matches.
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Brazil posted a foreign trade surplus of $376 million in the first week of December, the trade and development ministry said Monday.
(AP:SAO PAULO) Authorities arrested 11 people Monday in an alleged U.S. work-visa scam that raked in more than $50 million from thousands of Brazilians since 2002. Some of those scammed went to the U.S. and wound up as illegal aliens because promised jobs didn't exist.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Telemar Norte Leste SA and Vivo Participacoes SA fell the most in five weeks after Barclays Plc reiterated a “negative view” on Brazil’s telephone industry as competition increases and profitability remains “poor.”
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's presidential spokesman has reiterated that the country does not plan to recognize the incoming Honduran administration and denied that Brazil's president and chief of staff have made contradictory statements about the Central American nation's elections.
BRAZIL Tunnelers steal $6 million from safe SAO PAULO | Thieves who spent months tunneling from a rented house to an armored-car company made off with nearly $6 million over the weekend as season-ending soccer matches virtually paralyzed the nation, Brazilian authorities said Monday. The heist was discovered Sunday evening - after the games ended. Officers followed the tunnel from the company's ...
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