2011年5月25日星期三

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazilian leader suspends anti-homophobia campaign (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 02:58 PM PDT

AP - Brazil's president suspended an anti-homophobia campaign Wednesday that had been planned to begin at schools this year because she thought the videos and pamphlets weren't appropriate for children.

Hospital: Paraguay's president free of cancer (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 02:46 PM PDT

AP - A Brazilian hospital says the lymphatic cancer afflicting Paraguay's president is in complete remission.

Brazilian activist shot dead in Amazon (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2011 11:25 AM PDT

Rubber tapper Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, left, and his wife Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva look at the camera in this undated photo in Brazil. Ribeiro da Silva, an activist who was fighting to protect the Amazon rain forest from loggers, was shot and killed with his wife, Brazilian authorities said Wednesday. The killings occurred just hours before Brazil's lower house of Congress passed legislation environmentalists warned will increase deforestation in the region. (AP Photo/O Liberal)  NAO USAR NO BRASILAP - An activist fighting to protect the Amazon rain forest from loggers was shot and killed with his wife, Brazilian authorities said Wednesday.


Former Brazil editor must serve murder sentence (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2011 06:10 PM PDT

AP - Brazil's top court has ordered the jailing of a former editor of one of the country's biggest newspapers for murdering his ex-girlfriend nearly 11 years ago.
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