2009年1月14日星期三

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil

Brazil: Italian fugitive should be refugee (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2009 09:50 PM CST

Leftist Italian activist Cesare Battisti is escorted by Brazilian Federal Police officers as he arrives at the Brasilia's airport in this March 19, 2007 file photo. Battisti escaped from an Italian prison in 1981 while awaiting trial on four counts of murder allegedly committed when he was a member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism. Brazil's justice minister has recommended on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, political refugee status for Battisti, a leftist Italian fugitive accused in 4 killings. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - An imprisoned leftist Italian fugitive wanted in connection with four killings in the 1970s won a victory Tuesday from Brazil in his bid to be named a political refugee, the government said.


Brazil: Presidential contender undergoes makeover (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2009 07:06 PM CST

In this combination of photos Brazil's Presidency Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff is seen in a photo taken in 2004, left, and in a photo released by the Brazilian Presidency during a ceremony in Sao Paulo, Jan.12, 2009, at right. Brazil's major newspapers are running before-and-after photos of Rousseff, after she apparently underwent cosmetic surgery last month. (AP Photo/File/Brazil's Presidency)AP - The ruling party's likely contender for Brazil's presidency in 2010 is putting a new face forward — literally, according to local news reports.


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