2008年11月27日星期四

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil

Brazil flood victims loot stores, death toll at 97 (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 09:06 PM CST

Cars and trucks in a flooded scrap yard are seen from the air in Itajai, southern Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Eight cities in southern Brazil remained cut off by flooding that have killed nearly 100 people. (AP Photo/ Ricardo Moraes)AP - Hungry flood survivors looted supermarkets and emergency crews tried to get aid to nearly 80,000 people driven from their homes Wednesday, as rain-spawned mudslides and overflowing rivers killed at least 97 people and isolated cities in southern Brazil.


UN: Governments face challenges fighting sex abuse (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 05:42 PM CST

AP - More poor children may be driven into the sex trade as a result of the world financial crisis and the spreading use of the Internet by predators to find victims, participants at a U.N.-backed conference said Wednesday.

Russia, Brazil call first BRIC summit for 2009 (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 10:00 AM CST

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva walk after signing a bilateral agreement at the Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro November 26, 2008. (Bruno Domingos/Reuters)Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called on Wednesday for the first summit of major emerging market countries known as BRICs in Russia next year.


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