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Wednesday, October 7, 2026
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BRAZIL-GERMANY: Kyoto Protocol Gets a Ride in Fuel-Alcohol Car
Germany and Brazil will formalise a project at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, to begin Monday in Johannesburg, that entails production of automobiles in line with the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, announced Foreign Minister Celso Lafer in the Brazilian capital Thursday.POLITICS-BRAZIL: Candidates to Take Advantage of Free TV Air Time
The free TV air time granted the candidates for Brazil's October elections favours the ruling party's presidential candidate José Serra, giving him a chance to shore up his waning popularity and improve his position in the polls.COMMODITIES-BRAZIL: Government Comes to Coffee’s Rescue
The Brazilian government began to buy up local surplus coffee Wednesday in a bid to prevent low international prices from pushing growers into bankruptcy even though they are producing and exporting more coffee this year than ever.DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Gene Banks Provide Boost to Agriculture
Brazil's gene banks have helped fuel a significant increase in productivity in agriculture and forestry in the past few decades, despite financial limitations and increasingly scarce human resources.HEALTH-BRAZIL: Pediatricians Against Child Abuse
Domestic violence, addressed as a public health question, is the target of an army of 35,000 pediatricians in Brazil, whose ultimate aim is to reduce infant and child mortality./ARTS WEEKLY/TELEVISION-BRAZIL: Immigration Star of New Series ‘for Export’
The TV Globo network has once again confirmed why it is known as the Hollywood of Brazil with the soap opera "Esperanza", repeating the established formulas for the genre, but still far ahead of the tear-jerkers of the past.ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Relief over IMF Bail-out
Brazil received the news of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new 30 billion dollar aid package with a sigh of relief and signals of confidence in the economy Thursday.TRADE-BRAZIL: Sugar Industry Presses Gov’t to Protest EU Subsidies
The local sugar industry warned the Brazilian government that its fight against protectionist trade practices will lose all semblance of credibility if it fails to take action in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against European Union subsidies of sugar exports.HEALTH: Portuguese-Speaking Nations Adopt Joint Anti-AIDS Plan
The Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), which admitted the newly independent nation of East Timor as its eighth member, agreed on a joint programme against AIDS, to include the construction of a laboratory to produce generic drugs and a condom factory.ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Real Rallies, but Turmoil Remains
Although Brazil's local currency rallied Thursday after an eight-day slide, the factors triggering the turmoil remain, and the government is negotiating a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help the country out of its current economic troubles.DEVELOPMENT: Brazil to Help East Timor, from Health to Football
Brazil will provide assistance in a wide range of areas to help rebuild East Timor, the world's newest nation and one of its poorest, whose first president, José Alexandre Xanana Gusmao, is visiting Latin America's largest country this week.Good-Bye Garbage Dumps
The clean-up of several unregulated garbage dumps in the industrial Brazilian municipality of Sao Bernardo do Campo has served to raise the environmental awareness of the area's 700,000 residents.BRAZIL: Devaluation, Campaign Aggravate Jitters
The devaluation of the local currency and the likelihood of defeat for the ruling coalition candidate in Brazil's Oct 6 presidential elections have aggravated the country's economic and electoral jitters.BRAZIL: Environmentalists Sceptical of New Amazon Radar System
Authorities in Brazil are confident that a new Amazon Surveillance System (SIVAM) presented Thursday by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in the northern city of Manaus will expand military, police and environmental control over the vast Amazon jungle region.ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: Satellite to Revolutionise Climate Prediction
The Humidity Sounder of Brazil (HSB), one of the devices carried by the Aqua satellite that is orbiting the earth as part of a U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project, will provide vital meteorological information for South America.DEVELOPMENT: Brazil Exports Initiatives that Benefit Children
Brazil has accumulated enormous social problems and inequalities that seem impossible to resolve, but the South American giant is an exporter of poverty-fighting solutions, particularly of those that help children.
'Aqua' to Revolutionize Climate Predictions
The Brazilian probe incorporated into the Aqua satellite will allow predictions of rains and drought for South America with 90 percent accuracy.MERCOSUR: Crisis Strikes Politics and Integration Model
Political instability in Paraguay claimed two lives during street protests Monday, dramatising one side of the crisis of Mercosur (Southern Common Market), giving it a political nuance and altering its route towards integration.HEALTH-BRAZIL: Female HIV-Carriers, Second-Class Citizens
Brazilian lawyer Beatriz Pacheco, 53, has felt like a second-class citizen ever since she tested positive for HIV, the AIDS virus, five years ago.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Research Contradicts Myths about Amazon
The Amazon jungle curbs global warming, because it absorbs more carbon dioxide than it releases into the atmosphere, according to the preliminary results of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), which were discussed at an international meeting this week in Brazil./ARTS WEEKLY/TELEVISION-BRAZIL: And Now, a Word for Our Children
Five Brazilian children and adolescents are lost on a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere between Africa and South America, and to survive they must confront a series of challenges and the scheming of an enemy of humanity.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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