Yahoo! News: Brazil

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• Brazil man arrested for locking up wife for years (AP)
• Brazil's president: 8,000 homes for slide victims (AP)
• Ex Brazil fire chief accused of killing drug users (AP)
• FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brazil Green Lights Amazon Dam in Disregard for Environmental Laws and Local Opposition (PR Newswire)

Brazil man arrested for locking up wife for years (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:35 PM PST AP - A man has been arrested for allegedly keeping his wife locked for eight years in the dark, dank cellar of their home in southeastern Brazil, police said Thursday.

Brazil's president: 8,000 homes for slide victims (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:29 PM PST AP - Brazil is building 8,000 new, free homes for survivors of the deadly mudslides that ripped away mountainsides near Rio de Janeiro, President Dilma Rousseff announced Thursday.

Ex Brazil fire chief accused of killing drug users (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:16 PM PST AP - A former fire chief in Brazil is suspected of killing at least eight drug users in the neighborhood where his son was shot dead in a robbery attempt, authorities said Thursday.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brazil Green Lights Amazon Dam in Disregard for Environmental Laws and Local Opposition (PR Newswire) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:00 AM PST PR Newswire - BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Brazilian government has issued a "partial" installation license allowing the Belo Monte Dam to break ground on the Amazon's Xingu River despite egregious disregard for human rights and environmental legislation, the unwavering protests of civil society and condemnations by its Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF). The license was approved by Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA despite overwhelming evidence that the dam-building consortium Norte Energia (NESA) has failed to comply with social and environmental conditions required for an installation license.

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