2011年6月20日星期一

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Rolls-Royce wins $2.2 bn Brazil engine order (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 05:43 AM PDT

A model of an Airbus A 350 XWB on display. Rolls-Royce says it has won an order worth $2.2 billion to supply its Trent XWB jet engines to power the Airbus A350 long-haul planes bought by Brazil's TAM airlines.(AFP/File/Eric Piermont)AFP - Rolls-Royce said on Monday it had won an order worth $2.2 billion to supply its Trent XWB jet engines to power the Airbus A350 long-haul planes bought by Brazil's TAM airlines.


Police, soldiers take over crime-ridden Rio slum (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:48 AM PDT

Officers from the Military Police's Special Operations Batallion (BOPE) patrol the streets of Rio de Janeiro's Morro da Mangueira shantytown. More than 100 marines, 160 elite police officers and 600 ordinary officers took part in the operation in the hillside Mangueira neighborhood, which went off without a shot being fired, a police spokesman said.(AFP/Vanderlei Almeida)AFP - Hundreds of Brazilian police and soldiers backed by helicopters and armored vehicles swept in to take over a crime-ridden Rio slum as part of a clean-up plan ahead of the football World Cup in 2014.


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