2009年10月2日星期五

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


For Brazil, Olympics mean the future finally has arrived (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 03:52 PM PDT

People celebrate after Rio de Janeiro was announced host of the 2016 Olympics at the Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Oct.2, 2009. Nearly 50,000 people erupted in celebration when Rio was announced host, jumping and cheering in a Carnival-like party on Copacabana beach..(AP Photo/Andre Penner)McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — For the longest time, a joke about Brazil made the rounds in the halls of international financial organizations: Latin America's largest and most populous nation had a great future — and always would.


ANALYSIS - Olympics affirms Brazil's rise, Lula's legacy (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 10:12 AM PDT

Reuters - Rio de Janeiro's successful bid to host the Olympics in 2016 culminates Brazil's remarkable rise over the past decade from a near basket case to an economic and diplomatic heavyweight.

U.S., Brazilian and Indonesian Governors Urge Their Presidents to Include Forest Protection in Climate Change Policies (PR Newswire)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 09:01 AM PDT

PR Newswire -

Honduras president cited on return of liberties (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 04:43 PM PDT

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya pauses before giving a press conference in Brazil's embassy in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009.  Troops are preventing supporters of Zelaya's from approaching the Brazilian embassy where Zelaya has been holed up over a week and opposition media outlets have been forced off the air under an emergency decree that limits civil liberties including freedom of the press and assembly. Zelaya was ousted in a military coup in June. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - A spokesman for a U.S. Senator says the interim president of Honduras vowed that civil liberties would be restored in the troubled Central American country no later than Monday.


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