2009年11月26日星期四

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 05:12 PM PST

Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, speaks, as France's president Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, center, look on during the Amazon Summit in Manaus, Brazil, Thursday,  Nov.26, 2009. The summit in the steamy jungle city of Manaus to set Amazon priorities on climate change is fizzling after the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela bailed out. (AP Photo/ Andre Penner)AP - Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.


Brazil, US official discuss differences (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:39 PM PST

AP - Brazilian diplomats denied Thursday that there is a crisis in relations with the U.S., while acknowledging differences with the government of President Barack Obama on issues such as Iran's nuclear ambitions and relations with post-coup Honduras.

Brazil miniskirt student will parade in Carnival (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:28 PM PST

Brazilian university student Geisy Arruda arrives to testify at a police station in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil,  on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. Arruda, 20, was expelled from Bandeirantes University Oct. 22  for wearing a short dress to class.  (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)AP - Brazilians will be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades.


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