2009年12月8日星期二

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Report: Brazil police killed more than 11,000 (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:00 PM PST

AP - Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.

Brazil arrests 6 suspects in $6M tunnel heist (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:43 AM PST

AP - Authorities arrested five men and one woman accused of tunneling their way to nearly $6 million over the weekend while Brazil was gripped with football fever, but detectives recovered only a tiny fraction of the stolen cash, police said Tuesday.

Deadly rainstorms paralyze Sao Paulo (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:35 AM PST

A truck driver waits to cross under a flooded bridge at Marginal Tiete highway, northern Sao Paulo, Brazil. Heavy rain brought Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo grinding to a halt on Tuesday and reportedly claimed the lives of six people in landslides.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)AFP - Heavy rain brought Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo grinding to a halt on Tuesday and reportedly claimed the lives of six people in landslides.


Sao Paulo swamped by floods, reports of 6 dead (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 08:02 AM PST

AP - BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has been hit by severe floods for the second time in less than a week. Local media report that six people have died in mudslides caused by heavy rain.

Brazil: No recognition for new Honduras government (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 05:25 AM PST

AP - Brazil's presidential spokesman has reiterated that the country does not plan to recognize the incoming Honduran administration and denied that Brazil's president and chief of staff have made contradictory statements about the Central American nation's elections.
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