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Insight Chinese whispers Who wants to bet on the Nicaragua Canal
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (L) and Wang Jing, chairman of the Hong Kong international company Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. (HKND Group) celebrate signing a concession agreement for the construction of an inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua at the Casa de los Pueblos in Managua June 14, ...
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Brazil cities roll back transport hikes in effort to quell protests but it may be too little too late
SAO PAULO Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited anti-government protests that have spread across the nation in the past week. Many people doubted the move would quiet the demonstrations, which have moved well beyond outrage over the fare hikes into communal cries against poor public services in Latin ...
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Brazil protests continue despite appeasement effort
SAO PAULO Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited anti-government protests that have spread across the nation in the past week. Many people doubted the move would quiet the demonstrations, which have moved well beyond outrage over the fare hikes into communal cries against poor public services in Latin ...
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Ex-prof. arrested in Mexico on child sex charges
LOS ANGELES-It was a call from a Mexican citizen who recognized the photo of a former University of Southern California professor on the FBI's most-wanted list that gave authorities the final tip they needed to bring in a man suspected of sex crimes with children who had slipped through their fingers when he abruptly left town two years ago. An FBI agent at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City ...
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Tropical Storm Barry bears down on Mexicos coast
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) -- Tropical Storm Barry bore down on Mexico's Gulf Coast early Thursday as civil defense workers readied emergency shelters and forecasters warned of the possibility of deadly flash floods and ...
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Singapore Haze Soars to Hazardous Levels
A smoky haze fueled by forest fires in Indonesia continues to reach hazardous new levels in neighboring Singapore and is threatening to further irritate ties between the two countries. Singapore officials urged people to stay indoors Thursday, as a shroud of smog hanging over the city-state sent an air pollution index soaring to an all-time high of 371, shattering a record set the previous ...
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Protesters In Brazil Claim Victory Fare Hikes Rescinded
Two cities in Brazil have canceled bus and subway fare hikes after massive demonstrations. Anger over poor public services and government spending on sports arenas brought thousands of protesters into the ...
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Cooperation or servility Visit of Mr. Joe Biden to Brazil
Wladmir Coelho In 1947 President Eurico Dutra of Brazil sent to Congress the draft of the Statute of Oil. The presidential proposal was to buy oil and create domestic refineries. Oil exploration, itself, still released to international companies supported this decision in awe, on the "verge" of a war between the United States and the Soviet ...
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China Vietnam Agree on Hotline to Resolve Maritime Disputes
China and Vietnam have agreed to set up an emergency hotline to help quickly resolve territorial disputes that have occasionally strained relations between the two ...
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Haiti PM files new complaint in defamation case
MIAMI -- Following a judge's order, Haiti's prime minister has filed a more detailed complaint in his defamation case against a Haitian-American journalist.Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and South Florida businessman Patrice Baker originally sued Leo Joseph in September over his reporting in the New York-based Haiti-Observateur. They allege that Joseph knew his reporting about the ...
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Brazil protests for public transportation health education
The biggest protest in the last two decades is being held in State capital and is spreading across the country. Tired of being misled by the economical, cultural and political elite of the country, Brazilians poured on to the streets to demand better public transportation, health and ...
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Colombia Bogota to Host XXII Latin American Congress of Ports
The XXII Latin American Congress of Ports Colombia 2013, organized by the American Association of Port Authorities, will be held in the city of Bogot, June 25th to 28th, ...
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Fares hike reversed in effort to end Brazil protests
City leaders in Sao Paulo say they are reversing a hike in bus and subway fares which has sparked widespread protests across Brazil.Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad and state governor Geraldo Alckmin said at a joint news conference that the fare increase has been abandoned.It is not yet clear what impact the U-turn will have on the street protests that have broken out in several Brazilian cities. ...
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Brazil demonstrators promise biggest protests yet
Reversing public-transit fare hikes failed to defuse Brazil's anti-government protests, with organizers vowing to hold the biggest demonstrations yet Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators -- angry about political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament -- are expected on the streets of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, ...
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Chinese Astronaut Gives Live Video Lesson From Space
Wang Yaping, China's second female astronaut, is one of three crew members sent to space last week on the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft. She delivered her lecture from the Tiangong-1 experimental space lab, which China views as a prototype for a full-fledged space station. Wang participated in a question-and-answer session with students in a Beijing school. She also conducted a series of ...
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Tropical storm heads for Mexican coastal oil installations
By Reuters MEXICO CITY -- Tropical Storm Barry, the second of the Atlantic hurricane season, strengthened as it churned toward Mexico on Wednesday, threatening to bring heavy rains to oil and power installations near the country's Gulf Coast.The Minatitlan oil refinery of state oil monopoly Pemex and the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, both in Veracruz state, are being monitored closely, ...
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Canada sends soldiers to support UN mission in Haiti
Canada will dispatch dozens of military personnel to support the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Defense Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday.MacKay said a platoon of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) will depart on Friday to operate within a Brazilian battalion in Haiti until December.The 34 CAF members come from the Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in Valcartier, ...
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Protesters take streets again in Brazils biggest city
SAO PAULO -- Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament -- people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with ...
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Brazil unveils new mining regulation bill
/enpproperty--> BRASILIA - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday unveiled a new mining regulation bill that outlines how royalties will be distributed. The bill calls for metals-producing municipalities to receive 65 percent of the royalties derived from precious metal extraction, while states receive 23 percent and the federal government, 12 percent. It was scheduled to be submitted to ...
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Video Jozy Altidore scores in fourth-straight USMNT game to beat Honduras 1-0
* * * Here are the video highlights from the U.S. men’s national team’s 1-0 home win Tuesday against Honduras in World Cup qualifying. Here is some coverage ...
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Pele mocked on social media over appeal to end Brazil protests
Brazilian football legend Pele at an event earlier this month in Rio de Janeiro marking one year to kick-off for the 2014 World Cup. Photograph: Ronald Martinez/Getty ...
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Neymar stars as Brazil reach semis
Brazil's Neymar ran circles around the Mexicans during their Fifa Confederations Cup match in Fortaleza, Brazil. Picture: Clive Mason/Getty ...
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Cristina Fernandez admits defeat to the Supreme Court but promises to fight on
Argentine President Cristina Fernández targeted the Supreme Court on Thursday after its recent ruling against the Council of Magistrates reform and warned that "Argentines will be able to democratically vote for all political branches sooner rather than ...
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Neymar brilliance all but puts Brazil into semis
Brazil superstar Neymar scored one goal and set up the other to give hosts Brazil a 2-0 win over Mexico in their Group A game and all but assure them of a place in the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup in Fortaleza on Wednesday.The 21-year-old took his tally to 13 goals in his last 15 games for his country with a superb left-footed volley early in the first-half, and then produced a ...
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China Sentences Uighurs to Jail on Religious Extremism Charges
Chinese courts in the predominantly Muslim, northwest region of Xinjiang have sentenced 19 ethnic Uighurs to prison for inciting religious extremism and other related ...
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Jamaica comes under foreign media's microscope
Jamaica is a country used to reductionism, the complex island nation has more often than not been reduced to a stereotype of marijuana-infused surfers that say “chill mun” and listen to reggae. Perhaps this is why the recent drug-related violence in the capital has shocked the western media so much, perhaps this is why it has been glorified and dramatized to the extent it has, or perhaps it’s a reflection of the same forces that shaped the beach-stoner stereotype in the first place.
There is more to Jamaica than beaches, Reggae and a ‘chilled’ island lifestyle. Jamaica is not a little island of just a few hundred people living in huts on a white, sandy beach. It’s an island nation of 2.8 million people and it has a history of brutal slavery and colonialism, the legacy of which is still being redressed, like any developing nation it has a number of social ills and many of the population work hard for little pay and live in less than desirable conditions. Read more
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