2011年1月15日星期六

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazil slide survivors left to fend on own (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 04:09 PM PST

A car sits atop debris at a damaged street after landslides in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. Survivors of mudslides that killed more than 500 people are growing frustrated, saying Brazil's government has fallen short in rescuing victims still stranded on remote hillsides and finding the bodies of the dead. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Pointing at the cliff of crumbling red clay, Renato Motta de Lima described a landscape that now existed only in memory: here, his grandmother's house; there, the church; below, a banana grove and the home of an aunt, uncle and the shy teenager who was his cousin.


Many still missing in Brazil floods (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 03:01 PM PST

Rescue workers walk through a forest to search for victims after a landslide in Teresopolis January 15, 2011. decades. REUTERS/Bruno DomingosReuters - Dozens of flood survivors desperate for news of missing relatives lined up outside a morgue in the town of Teresopolis on Saturday as criticism grew of authorities' response to one of Brazil's worst natural disasters which has killed nearly 600 people.


Brazil mourns as flood death toll climbs (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 12:57 PM PST

Victims of the week's catastrophic landslides in Brazil are buried at the cemetery in Teresopolis, near Rio de Janiero. Brazilians emerged Saturday to face the chaos and destruction left by three days of torrential rains, rivers of mud and landslides that have killed nearly 560 people in the country's worst flood disaster on record.(AFP/Vanderlei Almeida)AFP - Brazil Saturday declared three days of national mourning for nearly 560 people killed near Rio de Janeiro this week in the country's worst flood disaster on record.


Mitsubishi Motors to target Brazil, India (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 11:43 PM PST

An Indian model poses next to a Mitsubishi Outlander during the car's unveiling in New Delhi in 2008. Mitsubishi Motors will streamline production in Japan, the United States and Europe while increasing output in emerging markets including Brazil and India, a report said Saturday.(AFP/File/Raveendran)AFP - Mitsubishi Motors will streamline production in Japan, the United States and Europe while increasing output in emerging markets including Brazil and India, a report said Saturday.


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