2011年3月30日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Brazil


Help in short supply after deadly Brazil mudslides (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2011 01:38 PM PST

People mourn during the burial of a landslide victim in Teresopolis, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. A new and ominous rain began falling again Friday in mountain towns where mudslides and flooding killed at least 479 people, hindering rescuers' efforts to reach survivors even as relatives hauled the dead down the hills to freshly dug graves. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Fernando Perfista dug out the body of his eldest child from the mud, then searched for the 12-year-old's three siblings. He sheltered the boy's remains in a refrigerator to keep dogs at bay.


13 dead after heavy rains in Brazil (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 10:47 AM PST

Residents, one carrying a girl on his shoulders, walk on a flooded street at Vila Itaim neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. Brazilian authorities say heavy rains have triggered mudslides and floods in southeastern Brazil, killing at least 13 people. Sao Paulo state civil defense officials say 11 people died when their houses collapsed because of mudslides and two were killed in flash floods. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)AP - Brazilian authorities say heavy rains have triggered mudslides and floods in southeastern Brazil, killing at least 13 people.


Brazil brothers charged with burying father alive (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 07:00 AM PST

AP - Two brothers were charged with killing their father, a local Afro-Brazilian religious leader, by knocking him out with sleeping pills and then burying him alive, investigators told a Brazilian news website.

5 sisters in Brazil accuse father of sexual abuse (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 11:59 AM PST

AP - Brazilian news media are reporting that five sisters in Sao Paulo state have accused their father of sexually abusing them over 20 years.

Police occupy 3 slums in ongoing security action (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:43 AM PST

Police patrol during an operation to take control of the Morro Sao Joao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday Jan. 6, 2011.  Rio de Janeiro's police say they've taken over three adjacent slums as part of an ongoing program to increase security and clamp down on drug trafficking. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Rio de Janeiro's police say they've taken over three adjacent slums as part of an ongoing program to increase security and clamp down on drug trafficking.


For Rio slum residents, police a mixed blessing (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:12 AM PST

Costumers have their hair cut at the Ze do Carmo barbershop at the Santa Marta slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. From his barbershop carved into the steep flank of the hillside slum where he grew up, Jose do Carmo used to cut the hair of the neighborhood's drug dealers and of the addicts who walked up the narrow alleyways for a fix and stayed for the $5 trims. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - At his barbershop carved into the steep flank of a Rio hillside slum, Jose do Carmo dos Santos used to cut the hair of the neighborhood's drug dealers and of the addicts who walked up the narrow alleyways for a fix and stuck around for the $5 trims.


Hackers attack Brazilian government's website (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 09:14 AM PST

AP - Officials say hackers tried to take the Brazilian government's website off the air a day after President Dilma Rousseff was sworn in.

Brazilian president meets with foreign leaders (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 06:49 AM PST

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, right, looks on as Spain’s Prince Felipe prepares to sit during a meeting at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Rousseff, a former rebel who was imprisoned and tortured during the nation's 21-year military dictatorship, was sworn in as Brazil's first female president Saturday. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is meeting with international leaders on her first full day in office.


AP Interview: Abbas says recognitions hit Israel (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:24 PM PST

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, shakes hands with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, and Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim during a meeting at the Planalto palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Abbas is on a three-day official visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres).AP - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that a recent wave of nations recognizing a Palestinian state based upon 1967 borders is pressuring Israel and the U.S. to return to negotiations and reach a peace deal.


Brazil won't extradite Italian fugitive Battisti (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 11:02 AM PST

FILE -  In this March 19, 2007 file photo, Italian leftist activist fugitive Cesare Battisti, center, is escorted by Federal Police officers as he arrives at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil. Battisti was granted political asylum by Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, according to a statement released by the president's office, but the case must still be heard by the nation's Supreme Court, the top justice said. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, file)AP - Brazil's president decided Friday not to extradite an Italian fugitive and former leftist rebel convicted of four murders carried out in the late 1970s, despite strong words from Italy, which wants the man to pay for his alleged crimes.


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