2010年1月28日星期四

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazil's Silva suffers spike in blood pressure (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:58 AM PST

In this photo released by Brazil's Presidency, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, talks with doctors at Hospital Portugues in Recife, Brazil, Thursday morning Jan. 28, 2010.  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva suffered an attack of high blood pressure just before taking off for Switzerland and was hospitalized overnight, officials said. He was released early Thursday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Stuckert-Brazil's Presidency)AP - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was released from the hospital Thursday after suffering an attack of high blood pressure just before he was to leave for an economic summit in Switzerland.


Social forum leftists decry climate talks failure (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:27 AM PST

An indigenous person of Brazil participates in the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. The World Social Forum gathers every year to seek alternatives to neo-liberal policies.(AP Photo/Silvia IZquierdo)AP - Activists at the World Social forum say world leaders' failure to forge a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen shows the planet's most powerful nations are incapable of setting important global policy.


Brazil's Lula hospitalized, cancels Davos trip (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:11 AM PST

An AFP - An "exhausted" Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was hospitalized in the northeastern city of Recife after suffering hypertension, the president's office said early Thursday.


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