2010年5月29日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazilian Samurai ready to rumble for Japan (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Japan defender Marcus Tulio Tanaka, pictured on May 26, may be just another Brazilian who has made the World Cup after abandoning his star-studded country, but he claims the Samurai spirit is running in his blood.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)AFP - Japan defender Marcus Tulio Tanaka may be just another Brazilian who has made the World Cup after abandoning his star-studded country, but he claims the Samurai spirit is running in his blood.


Brazil's World Cup: The Worrying Starts Early (Time.com)

Posted: 29 May 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) talks with Brazil's national soccer player Robinho (C) as Elano looks on before the team departs for the World Cup at Alvorada Palace in Brasilia May 26, 2010.   REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes (BRAZIL - Tags: POLITICS SPORT SOCCER WORLD CUP)Time.com - The global governing body of soccer worries aloud about Brazil's ability to get a dozen stadiums ready for the next big spectacle


Shot Brazilian's family slam Ian Blair's peerage (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 01:10 AM PDT

Metropolitan Police Chief Commissioner Sir Ian Blair addresses the media at New Scotland Yard in London in 2008. Relatives of the Brazilian electrician shot dead by London police when he was mistaken for a suicide bomber said they were disgusted that Blair, the police chief at the time, has been made a peer in the House of Lords.(AFP/POOL/File/Lewis Whyld)AFP - Relatives of the Brazilian electrician shot dead by London police when he was mistaken for a suicide bomber said on Friday they were disgusted that the police chief at the time received a top honour.


Uranium enrichment not discussed in Iran deal: Brazil (AFP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 08:25 PM PDT

File photo shows Iranian photographers taking pictures of a container of radioactive uranium, 'yellow cake' at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities. Iran's decision to enrich 20 percent its stock of uranium was never part of the negotiations behind the nuclear fuel swap deal Brazil and Turkey struck with Tehran last week, Brazil's foreign minister said.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Iran's decision to enrich 20 percent its stock of uranium was never part of the negotiations behind the nuclear fuel swap deal Brazil and Turkey struck with Tehran last week, Brazil's foreign minister said.


Brazil lottery winner escapes father's murder plot (Reuters)

Posted: 28 May 2010 06:35 PM PDT

Reuters - The winner of a $16 million lottery jackpot in Brazil escaped his own father's plot to kill him after police caught two contract killers supposedly hired to carry out his murder, local media reported on Friday.
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