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Yahoo! News: Brazil

Activists gather for World Social Forum (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 05:22 PM CST

An Indian plays a musical instrument during a demonstration marking the beginning of the World Social Forum, in Belem, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. The World Social Forum, the annual countercultural gathering to protest the simultaneous World Economic Forum in Switzerland, will be held from Jan. 27 until Feb. 1. (AP Photo/ Andre Penner)AP - Some 100,000 activists of all stripes converged on this steamy Amazon city Tuesday, opening the World Social Forum with a rambunctious march to the beat of samba drums.

Italy recalls Brazil envoy over fugitive's asylum (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 11:24 AM CST

In this March 19, 2007 file photo, Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti, in plain clothes, is escorted by Brazilian Federal Police officers as he arrives at Brasilia's airport. Italy slammed as 'unacceptable' Brazil's decision to grant refugee status to an Italian fugitive sentenced to life for political slayings in the 1970s, and moved Tuesday Jan. 27, 2009 to recall its ambassador for talks. Battisti, 54, was a member of the far-left group Armed Proletarians for Communism. He escaped from an Italian prison in 1981 while awaiting trial on four counts of murder allegedly committed when he was a member of the far-left group. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, files) BRAZIL OUT EFE OUTAP - Italy recalled its ambassador to Brazil on Tuesday in an escalating dispute over Brazil's decision to grant asylum to an Italian fugitive sentenced to life in prison for political slayings in the 1970s.

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