Yahoo! News: Brazil

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• Brazil becomes largest nation yet to legalize civil unions (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Brazil arrests Serbs in drug gang crackdown (AP)
• Brazil to buy back guns following school deaths (AP)
• Brazil athlete comes out after homophobic slurs (AP)
• Second Rio-Paris plane crash body retrieved (Reuters)
• Babson College Brings Entrepreneurial Leadership to Brazil's Burgeoning Economy (PR Newswire)
• Brazil top court recognized same-sex civil unions (AP)
• Brazil top court recognizes same-sex civil unions (AFP)

Brazil becomes largest nation yet to legalize civil unions (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 May 2011 02:24 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Rebuffing Latin America's machista stereotype, Brazil on Thursday legalized same-sex unions nationwide. The decision makes it the largest among a league of about 25 nations that recognizes civil unions for gay couples.

Brazil arrests Serbs in drug gang crackdown (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 01:49 PM PDT AP - Brazilian police dismantled a Serbian-led organization accused of shipping drugs to Europe, authorities said Friday. Experts said the takedown reveals Brazil's growing role as a drug corridor and the increasing involvement of a European mafia in the South American narcotics trade.

Brazil to buy back guns following school deaths (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 12:33 PM PDT AP - The Brazilian government has begun a disarmament campaign officials hope will take more than 1 million guns off the streets by the end of the year.

Brazil athlete comes out after homophobic slurs (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 11:57 AM PDT AP - The deafening chants roared from the packed bleachers each time the volleyball player stood and focused on his serve: "Bicha! Bicha!"

Second Rio-Paris plane crash body retrieved (Reuters) Posted: 06 May 2011 10:18 AM PDT Reuters - A second body was brought to the surface Friday from the submerged wreckage of the Air France Rio-Paris flight that plunged into the sea off Brazil two years ago, the French interior ministry said.

Babson College Brings Entrepreneurial Leadership to Brazil's Burgeoning Economy (PR Newswire) Posted: 06 May 2011 10:07 AM PDT PR Newswire - WELLESLEY, Mass., May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Babson Executive and Enterprise Education, a division of Babson College, is expanding its activities in Brazil, training the country's leaders to create and operate new venture opportunities.  Brazil is the world's 8th largest economy.

Brazil top court recognized same-sex civil unions (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 03:17 AM PDT AP - Brazil's high court ruled that same-sex civil unions must be recognized, a decision welcomed as a watershed by gay activists who also hope it will cool rising violence against homosexuals in Latin America's most populous nation.

Brazil top court recognizes same-sex civil unions (AFP) Posted: 05 May 2011 08:46 PM PDT AFP - Brazil's Supreme Court recognized the legal rights of same-sex partners in "stable" civil unions, Chief Justice Cezar Peluso announced.

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