2011年6月26日星期日

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Hundreds of thousands back gay pride in Brazil (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 03:17 PM PDT

A person performs with fire during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday June 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - Hundreds of thousands of people dancing and wearing costumes are packing the streets of South America's biggest city to celebrate gay pride and call for an end to homophobia.


Brazil's Jose Graziano da Silva elected UN food agency head (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Delegates celebrate as Jose Graziano da Silva of Brazil (C) is elected as the new Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. Silva today became the first Latin American chosen to head the UN's food agency, a move aid groups hope will boost the fight against hunger.(AFP/Andreas Solaro)AFP - Brazil's former food security minister Jose Graziano da Silva Sunday became the first Latin American chosen to head the UN's food agency, a move aid groups hope will boost the fight against hunger.


Brazil candidate chosen to head UN food agency (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 08:43 AM PDT

Delegates celebrate as Jose Graziano da Silva of Brazil (C) is elected as the new Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. Silva today became the first Latin American chosen to head the UN's food agency, a move aid groups hope will boost the fight against hunger.(AFP/Andreas Solaro)AFP - Brazil's Jose Graziano da Silva, who takes the helm of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation at a time of high food prices and chronic hunger, boasts a strong record of boosting food security.


Brazil's Graziano elected chief of UN food agency (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 07:07 AM PDT

Candidate for the post of Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General, Jose Graziano da Silva, of Brazil, delivers his speech during a session of the 37th FAO Conference in Rome, Saturday, June 25, 2011. Representatives at the Food and Agriculture Organization vote this weekend to give the largest U.N. agency its first new chief in almost two decades — an election that comes at a time of critically high food prices and malnutrition across the world. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Jose Graziano da Silva of Brazil was elected on Sunday as director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.N. agency tasked with reducing world hunger at a time of high food prices.


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