Bishops Estevam Hernandes Filho and Sônia Haddad Moraes, the couple who founded the Brazilian church Renascer, were arrested today at dawn in the Miami airport by the FBI after arriving in a flight from São Paulo, Brazil.
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China (SBSM) will sign a technical and scientific cooperation agreement on Tuesday.
Brazil´s soybean production will rise 5.1 percent this year after rains helped the flowering of the beans.
A Brazilian judge reversed course Tuesday and lifted an order that led to a ban of YouTube across much of the country because a sexy video of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli and her boyfriend kept circulating against the boyfriend´s wishes.
The basic texts for the free trade agreement between Mercosur and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), according to Brazilian diplomats, are going to be ratified during the summit of the South American bloc, to take place on January 18th and 19th in Rio de Janeiro.
Officials here have begun forging relief plans after more than a week of rain pounded southeast Brazil, driving nearly 16,000 people from their homes and killing dozens in mudslides.
Brazilian economists raised their year-end exchange rate forecast for the first time in eight weeks, anticipating that dollar inflows from exports and investment will sustain demand for the country´s real.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ordered the armed forces into Rio de Janeiro state to back local forces´ struggle against a bloody surge in crime that has killed 24 people, his office said.
For the first time in history, the Petrobras shares reached the value of US$ 103 billion, monthly average market value, equivalent to R$ 221 billion, considering average exchange rates for the period.
The presidency of vehicle factory Ford announced yesterday (4), after a meeting with Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, that the group is going to invest R$ 2.2 billion in the country between 2007 and 2011.
Tunisians, Moroccans and Brazilians are exchanging knowledge in biotechnology. The Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), in southern Brazil, is offering a master´s degree course in Agroindustrial and Agricultural-Food Biotechnology, also offered by an university in Tunisia and another in Morocco
A device capable of simultaneously injecting steam and extracting petroleum from wells and cutting costs. The equipment was invented by the Petroleum Engineering Company (Engepet), a small company based in the northeastern Brazilian state of Sergipe.
Brazilian court ordered the popular video sharing service YouTube, a unit of Internet search provider Google Inc., to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video from its site, a judicial clerk said on Thursday
A decade after Brazil became the first developing country to guarantee free AIDS treatment to every citizen, the spiraling cost of new drugs is threatening to bankrupt the highly effective program.
Brazil´s real rose on speculation dollar flows from exports and international investments in financial assets will stay strong next year.
The struggle for food has long been a drama for millions of impoverished Brazilians. But these days the nation is transfixed by another sort of starvation: anorexia among the successful and well off.
Armed gangs in Rio de Janeiro killed 18 people in attacks overnight on passenger buses and police posts to retaliate against a crackdown on drug traffickers, the city´s public safety head Roberto Precioso said.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a law Wednesday raising the nation´s minimum wage by 8.5 percent, a measure that will affect millions of working-class Brazilians.
Vale do Rio Doce, the world´s largest iron-ore producer, will buy at least 300 Scania AB trucks to be used in an iron ore mining project in the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil´s central highlands.
Sao Paulo State Governor Claudio Lembo said on Tuesday that the series of accidents over the Christmas weekend were not related to organized crime gangs.
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