2011年6月9日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Brazil


Peru's Humala burnishes moderate image in Brazil (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:29 PM PDT

Reuters - Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala praised Brazil on Thursday for fighting poverty while fostering economic growth, seeking to show he will lead as a moderate leftist who has shed his radical past.

Italy vows court action after Brazil releases ex-militant (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 12:47 PM PDT

Italian leftist Cesare Battisti leaves prison after the decision by the Supreme Court to reject the extradicton demanded by the Italian government in Brasilia. Italy on Thursday threatened to take Brazil to the UN's highest court in a diplomatic row following the release of Battisti from a Brazilian prison.(AFP/Evaristo Sa)AFP - Italy on Thursday threatened to take Brazil to the UN's highest court in a diplomatic row following the release of Italian former far-left militant Cesare Battisti from a Brazilian prison.


New Peru leader looks to Brazil for ideas (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Peru's President-elect Ollanta Humala makes the victory sign before a meeting with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff at the Planalto palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, June 9, 2011. Humala is on a one-day visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Peru's president-elect says he is looking to Brazil for ideas about how to help his country's poor.


Italy-Brazil feud over extradition heats up (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 09:40 AM PDT

**  ALTERNATE CROP TO VC102  ** Italian leftist activist fugitive Cesare Battisti leaves prison after Brazil's Supreme Court ordered him freed early Thursday, June 9, 2011. Italy plans to appeal to the International Court of Justice to overturn Brazil's top court Wednesday's decision to bar Battisti's extradition, who is convicted of four murders in the 1970s in his homeland, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. (AP Photo/Yan Santos)AP - An Italian fugitive convicted of four murders in 1970s left prison a free man Thursday after Brazil's top court barred his extradition, sparking outrage in Italy and vows to pursue him in the International Court of Justice.


Italian ex-militant Battisti freed from Brazil jail (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:30 PM PDT

Italian ex-militant Cesare Battisti waves as he leaves prison. Battisti walked free early Thursday from Brazil's Papuda maximum-security prison after the country's high court denied Italy's request to extradite him(AFP/Evaristo Sa)AFP - Italian ex-militant Cesare Battisti walked free early Thursday from Brazil's Papuda maximum-security prison after the country's high court denied Italy's request to extradite him.


Let Them In: How Brazilians Could Help the U.S. Economy (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Tourists from Brazil are the freest spending travelers in the world. So why does the U.S. make it so difficult for them to visit?

Brazil top court: Italian militant can stay (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:18 PM PDT

** CORRECTS TO SAY THE PROTESTERS ARE IN FAVOR OF BATTTISTI'S RELEASE FROM JAIL, NOT AGAINST ** Human rights activists protest in favor of the possible release of former leftist rebel Cesare Battisti, from Italy, outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday June 8, 2011. Brazil's top court is deciding whether Battisti will be extradited to Italy, remain in jail, or be freed and be given political asylum in Brazil.  Battisti was convicted in absentia of four political murders from the 1970s. Arrested in Brazil in 2007, Battisti says he is innocent. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Brazil's top court ruled Wednesday night against extraditing a former leftist rebel from Italy convicted of four murders carried out in the late 1970s in his homeland and ordered him freed from custody.


Brazil court rejects Cesare Battisti extradition (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:03 PM PDT

Italian leftist activist Cesare Battisti leaves Rio de Janeiro's Federal Court in 2009. Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the extradition to Italy of Battisti in a case that has heightened tensions between the two countries.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)AFP - Brazil's Supreme Court rejected the extradition to Italy of former far-left militant Cesare Battisti in a case that has heightened tensions between the two countries.


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