2011年6月16日星期四

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemns Syria violence (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:05 PM PDT

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon smiles during a meeting with Brazil’s Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, unseen, at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday June 16, 2011. Ban Ki-moon is on a two-day visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called on Syria's president to stop the bloodshed in his country and engage in dialogue before it's too late.


Ex-leader of Brazilian landless activists arrested (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:59 PM PDT

AP - A charismatic former leader of Brazil's landless rural workers movement was arrested Thursday on suspicion of misappropriating public funds intended for the resettlement of families, the federal police said.

Brazil says pro-marijuana rallies are legal (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:51 AM PDT

AP - Brazil's top court says that demonstrations favoring the legalization of marijuana can be held in Latin America's biggest country.

Bodies from Air France crash arrive in France (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Plaque in memory of the victims of the Air France flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1, 2009 is seen, after the mass commemorating the second anniversary of the tragedy in Rio de Janeiro June 1, 2011. REUTERS/Ana Carolina FernandesReuters - The bodies of more than 100 victims from a Rio-Paris flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago arrived in France on Thursday, allowing experts to start the process of identifying them.


Bodies from Atlantic plane crash brought to France (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:21 AM PDT

Workers unload a container from the ship Ile de Sein,in the French port of Bayonne, southwestern France, Thursday, June 16, 2011. The bodies are some of all 228 people who died when Air France Flight 447 en route from Brazil to Paris dived into the sea in 2009, and investigators are still trying to determine what went wrong. In a long-awaited discovery, underwater robots located the plane's black box flight recorders and several bodies in April. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)AP - The remains of 104 people killed in a 2009 plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean were brought to France on Thursday for identification.


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