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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Brazilian Roberto Azevêdo’s election as head of the World Trade Organization is a long overdue step towards global perestroika but his task of creating a fair, international economic order is not going to be easy
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Long reviled as an artificial grouping of countries with little in common other than a sense of exclusion from the command structures of the international system, the BRICS forum has finally come...
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BRASILIA,
Sunday, January 27, 2013
A fire swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early on Sunday, killing at least 245 people and leaving at least 200 injured, police and firefighters said. Police Major Cleb...
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New Delhi,
November 22, 2012
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, was conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development at a function at Rashtrapati Bhav...
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November 8, 2012
Brazil provides an excellent example of reducing the prevalence of smoking and, in turn, saving several thousand lives by adopting and strictly enforcing several strategies aimed at making tobacco...
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CHENNAI,
August 5, 2012
Frequent gridlock, unbridled congestion and health hazards due to carbon dioxide emission are part of the urban nightmare. Spiralling fuel costs and limited space further add to the woes of India...
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June 11, 2012
Monkeys swinging from branch to branch, a special gardening section for children and stunning sea views.
This green oasis finds its home in an unlikely place: a former landfill for a Rio...
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New Delhi,
March 30, 2012
Seeking a greater global role, India and Brazil today agreed to step up efforts towards global reform, particularly of the U.N. Security Council. The two countries also agreed to further...
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December 14, 2011
Hundreds of Haitian migrants continue to pour into the region in the wake of the 2010 earthquake.
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PRETORIA,
October 19, 2011
“The grouping has shown sceptics how the three states can pool their resources and genius”
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United Nations,
September 24, 2011
The four nation grouping of G-4 on Saturday committed them to work together for bringing about the urgently needed reform of the UN Security Council. At a meeting of the foreign ministers o...
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June 2, 2011
Brazil's environmental agency gave final approval on Wednesday, June 1, for a giant hydroelectric power plant in the Amazon rain forest that has been at the centre of a protracted battle bet...
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Paris,
May 30, 2011
Ms. Lagarde has emerged as the odds—on favourite to get the job. Her appointment would make her the first woman in charge of the scandal—rocked fund but would also increase tensions with developing nations who argue someone from outside Europe should be given the job this time.
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November 21, 2012
As a transformative figure in Brazil, former President Lula’s reengagement with India recognises a shared belief in inclusive growth for countries with big development challenges
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August 8, 2012
Her nom de guerre was Estela. Part of a shadowy urban guerrilla group at the time of her capture in 1970, she spent three years behind bars, where interrogators repeatedly tortured her with electr...
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Rio de Janeiro,
June 22, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday again admonished the West for living the high life and not paying for it.In a brief 600-word statement he told the Plenary of the United Nations Co...
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May 26, 2012
The Brazilian congress just passed a forest code that puts the Amazon and other forests in jeopardy and President Dilma Rousseff's imminent decision on whether to pass or veto the bill will have h...
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NEW DELHI,
March 29, 2012
Russia, China against any bid to put the five nations under threat of intervention
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NEW DELHI,
November 21, 2011
It is the first project completed through IBSA funding
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New Delhi,
October 17, 2011
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday embarked on a three-day visit to Pretoria to attend the trilateral India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summit that is expected to be dominated by pressing glob...
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SAO PAULO,
July 13, 2011
Brazilian officials say a plane has crashed near a city in the northeastern part of the nation and all 16 aboard have died. The Air Force says in a statement that the twin-engine aircraft be...
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May 31, 2011
The snakes come at night, darting out of the shadows and into Marcelo’s subconscious. “You start thinking, ‘There are people coming! The police are coming! A snake is coming! Ever...
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Rio De Janeiro,
April 7, 2011
At least 20 people, including children, were wounded in the shooting at the school for students aged 10 to 15, fire department spokesman Evandro Bezerra told the Globo television network.
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