2009年12月17日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazil's top court halts boy's return to US dad (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 05:53 PM PST

U.S. citizen David Goldman, left, arrives at Rio de Janeiro's airport Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Goldman, the U.S. father who won another round in his legal fight to regain custody of his 9-year-old son living in Brazil with his grandparents after his Brazilian mother died, hopes to bring the boy to New Jersey in time for Christmas. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Brazil's Supreme Court delayed the return of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. father only hours after the man arrived from New Jersey on Thursday in hopes of taking the boy home for Christmas.


Police: Brazil boy stuck with needles in rituals (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 05:07 PM PST

A 2-year-old boy, found with 42 needles inside his body, arrives to a hospital in Salvador, northeastern Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, the boy's stepfather, has confessed to jabbing them into the toddler as part of a religious ritual, Brazilian police said Thursday. (AP Photo/Arestides Baptista, AG A TARDE, Agencia O Globo)    DO NOT USE IN BRAZILIAN WEBSITES - NAO USAR EM WEBSITES DO BRASILAP - The stepfather of a 2-year-old boy found with 42 sewing needles in his body confessed to jabbing them into the toddler during a month of rituals with a lover who he claimed received instructions through trances, Brazilian police said Thursday.


Brazilian confesses to sticking needles into two-year-old (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 03:23 PM PST

TV grab taken on December 15 showing an X-ray of the stomach of a two-year-old boy at the intensive care unit of the Barreiras hospital in the Brazilian state of Bahia. A Brazilian man confessed Thursday to sticking more than 40 needles into his two-year-old former stepson in a ritualistic attack aimed at exacting revenge on his ex-wife, police said.(AFP/HO)AFP - A Brazilian man confessed Thursday to sticking more than 40 needles into his two-year-old former stepson in a ritualistic attack aimed at exacting revenge on his ex-wife, police said.


Brazil Supreme Court blocks U.S. boy's return (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 01:16 PM PST

Sergio Tostes, left, and Renato Tonini display a sign made by Sean Goldman that reads in Portuguese 'I want to stay in Brazil,' during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Tostes and Tonini are the attorneys of the Bianchi family in the case on whether Sean, a 9-year-old boy living in Brazil, should be returned to his father U.S. David Goldman, who lives in New Jersey. The case began in 2004, when Goldman's wife, Bruna Bianchi, took their then-4-year-old son Sean to her native Brazil. Bianchi died last year, but her new husband's family is seeking to keep Sean. Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday delayed the return of the boy to his father.  (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Reuters - A Brazilian Supreme Court judge blocked the return to the United States of a 9-year-old boy at the center of an international custody dispute on Thursday, saying the boy's own will must be taken into account.


Serra closer to Brazil candidacy as rival quits (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 12:08 PM PST

Reuters - Sao Paulo state Governor Jose Serra is almost certain to clinch the main opposition party's presidential candidacy for next year's Brazilian election after his main rival dropped out on Thursday.

Needles discovered in Brazilian boy's heart (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 05:41 AM PST

This TV grab taken on December 15 shows an X-ray of the stomach of a two-year-old Brazilian boy. Brazilian doctors organized an emergency airlift for the boy who had 42 needles inserted inside him during AFP - Brazilian doctors organized an emergency airlift Thursday for a two-year-old boy who had 42 needles inserted inside him during "black magic" rituals, after two of the slivers were discovered to be piercing his heart.


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