Yahoo! News: Brazil

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• Hundreds occupy dam construction site in Brazil (AP)
• Brazil names new sports minister (AP)
• Brazilian Senate approves probe of abuses (AP)

Hundreds occupy dam construction site in Brazil (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:26 PM PDT AP - Indian rights activists say hundreds of people have peacefully occupied the construction site of a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazonian state of Para in Brazil.

Brazil names new sports minister (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:59 AM PDT AP - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff appointed a Communist Party congressman as the country's new sports minister on Thursday, replacing an official from the same party who resigned while fighting corruption allegations.

Brazilian Senate approves probe of abuses (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 07:56 AM PDT AP - Brazil's Senate has approved the creation of a truth commission to investigate human rights abuses by the military regime that ruled Latin America's biggest country from 1964 to 1985.

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