2009年12月18日星期五

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Needles successfully extracted from Brazil boy (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 06:37 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 - Surgeons on Friday successfully removed four sewing needles from the lung and near the heart of a Brazilian toddler, allegedly plunged into him by his stepfather during a monthlong series of bizarre rituals.


US dad's custody fight threatening ties (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:32 PM PST

David Goldman, right, of New jersey, talks to the press as US Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) looks on in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009.  Goldman is fighting for custody of his 9-year-old son and has asked Brazil's attorney general to join his battle before the nation's Supreme Court. Goldman's son Sean was taken to Brazil in 2004 by his then-wife Bruna Bianchi, who divorced Goldman and remarried before dying while giving birth to a daughter in 2008. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - A New Jersey man made an emotional plea Friday for Brazilian authorities to let him take his son home in a custody fight that is expanding into a political tussle and testing the limits of an international child abduction treaty.


U.S. father pleads for boy's return from Brazil (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 11:46 AM PST

David Goldman shows a letter during a news conference in Rio de Janeiro, December 18, 2009. REUTERS/Bruno DomingosReuters - The American father of a boy at the center of a Brazil-U.S. custody dispute made an emotional appeal to be reunited with his son on Friday, calling the situation "cruel, tragic and sad."


Senator places hold on bill over custody battle (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 12:43 AM PST

U.S. David Goldman talks to members of the media in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Goldman, a father who is having a 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. Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday delayed the return of the boy to his father. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - A New Jersey senator plans to hold up a trade bill that would benefit Brazil because of a long-running battle over a 9-year-old boy.


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