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Brazil sells 40 jets to US carrier
Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer on Tuesday announced the sale of 40 E-175 jets to US carrier SkyWest.SkyWest will operate the aircraft under a Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with United Airlines.According to Embraer, before the sale of 40 E-175 jets, the company has made contracts with United Airlines for 30 E-175 jets last month.In addition to the 40 jets bought, SkyWest may take another 60 ...
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Former Ford executives indicted for human rights abuses in Argentina
The former executives of the US automaker Argentina unit have been charged with helping officials abduct 24 workers during the country's "dirty war" of the 1970s and ...
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Philippines Brazil agree on new flights
MANILA--Daily flights between the Philippines and Brazil, South America's largest country, may start soon following the approval of new air rights between the two countries this week. The on Wednesday announced that the Philippine and Brazilian governments had signed an air agreement. Under the accord signed by the Philippine air panel this week, a total of seven flights a week are now ...
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Afghan Interpreters to Receive British Visas
The British government says about 600 Afghan interpreters who worked with the British troops in Afghanistan will be allowed to settle in ...
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Argentina’s General Videla and the “war on terror”
Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla died May 17 at the age of 87 as the result of injuries suffered from a fall in a prison shower. He was remembered as the head of a savage military dictatorship that between 1976 and 1983 murdered and "disappeared" some 30,000 Argentine workers, socialist militants, teachers, students and others perceived as "subversives," while torturing at least ...
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Venezuela to Host CELAC Ministerial Meeting
Caracas, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela will host the Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in the Social Development and Poverty Eradication sector, to be held in July, announced official sources today. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said that he met today with diplomatic representatives from 33 Latin American countries accredited in this ...
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Venezuelas Maduro warns of psychological war
President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday denounced as "psychological war" a leaked audio recording that purports to show a power struggle among key followers of the late Hugo ...
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North Koreas Kim Sends Envoy to China
The official Korean Central News Agency said Choe Ryong Hae, the director of the General Political Bureau of the North Korean army, left Pyongyang for China Wednesday. The brief report provided no details about the purpose of the trip. Choe is believed to be the highest-level official Pyongyang has sent to Beijing since Mr. Kim took over leadership of the country following the death of his ...
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Brazil is Australias perfect match ANU
Australia should boost its ties with Brazil as the South American nations continues its transformation into a global power, an ANU expert ...
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US Senate Committee Approves Immigration Reform Bill
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a massive immigration reform bill, voting to send it to the entire Senate for debate. Tuesday evening's vote was 13 to five. It came after one of the bill's eight sponsors, Democrat Patrick Leahy, withdrew an amendment that would have given same-sex couples the same legal protections in immigration questions as heterosexual ...
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Venezuela parliament resumes 3 weeks after brawl
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during the departure of Simon Bolivar's school sailing ship at the naval dock in La Guaira Venezuela, Monday, May 20, 2013. The ship with 175 people on board starts his twenty-fifth cruise abroad instruction. (AP Photo/Ariana ...
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Nigeria to Free All Female Islamist Suspects
Nigeria says it will release several Islamist suspects from prison, including the women in custody, as it seeks peace with Boko Haram extremists. The Defense Ministry said Tuesday the move is in line with what it calls "presidential magnanimity to enhance peace efforts." A panel set up by President Goodluck Jonathan is recommending the government open peace talks with Boko Haram ...
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Protesters hurl firebombs as Chile leader speaks
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Bands of young people hurling firebombs and stones clashed with police outside Chile's congress Tuesday after thousands of students and workers staged a protest march before President Sebastian Pinera's final state of the nation speech.The president was not exposed to the violence around the legislature, which is in the port city of Valparaiso.Authorities said more ...
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Colombia ex-president Drug use should not be a criminal matter
Gaviria’s statements on radio station RCN came in the light of a recent report on drug trafficking published by the Organization of American States (OAS), which raised the possibility of decriminalizing certain drugs. ';The state has to find a way a way that [drug consumption] is treated as a health issue,'; said Gaviria. Although Gaviria expressed that each country has to find ...
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‘AS Monaco sign Colombia’s James Rodriguez’
Big spending French side AS Monaco have agreed a $90M double deal to sign rising Colombian star James Rodriguez and Portuguese teammate Joao Moutinho, European media reported ...
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Conservative political party files Supreme Court challenge to ruling on gay marriage in Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil - A conservative party is challenging a judicial ruling that requires all of Brazil's notary publics to register same-sex civil unions as marriages if couples request it. Last week, the National Council of Justice that oversees the country's judiciary said notary publics cannot refuse to marry gay couples or convert a same-sex civil union into a marriage if ...
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REUTERS SUMMIT-Rates and reserve requirement to tame Uruguays inflation
Tue May 21, 2013 7:48pm EDT By Malena Castaldi and Felipe Llambias MONTEVIDEO May 21 (Reuters) - Uruguay's main economic problem is high inflation, and policymakers will continue to use interest rates and bank reserve requirements to bring it under control, Vice President Danilo Astori said on Tuesday. Consumer prices in the small South American country rose 8.14 percent in the 12 months ...
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On the Scene in Tornado Hit Town Even Trees are Stripped of Everything
VOA correspondent Greg Flakus is at the site of the tornado damage in Moore, Oklahoma. He spoke with English broadcaster David Byrd Tuesday afternoon about what he is ...
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Kerry Presses US-Russian Plan for Syrian Peace Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Wednesday in the Jordanian capital with senior diplomats from 11 nations, as part of a U.S.-Russian push to end Syria's civil ...
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Spanish couple kidnapped in Colombia
Two Spanish tourists have been kidnapped in Colombia while driving in La Guajira, near the Venezuelan border. The couple disappeared on Friday, but Spanish authorities only confirmed the kidnapping on Tuesday. The kidnappers contacted the hostages' family and identified themselves as members of the left-wing rebels Farc, Colombian authorities say. The group, which last year vowed to stop ...
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Bolivia lashes at Sean Penn over jailed American
Actor Sean Penn arrives at Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Gangster Squad' premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on January 7, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Jason Merritt, Getty ...
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Puma to sell gasoline-ethanol mix in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto ...
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Venezuela Black and Blue
The left eye of Julio Borges, a deputy in the Venezuelan National Assembly from the opposition party, Primero Justicia, is the best symbol of the way things are going in Venezuelan politics. When I interviewed him two weeks ago, he had a deep purple stripe under his eye, as if he were an athlete wearing a streak of eye black to avoid being dazzled by the sun. But his stripe was the result of a ...
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Solvista hits gold-copper whopper in Colombia
's view of its Caramanta project in Colombia, few would argue it was a featherweight copper-gold intercept. Solvista's shareprice took off Tuesday - up 40 percent at presstime - after it reported 457 metres @ 1.01 g/t gold and 0.21 percent copper. Solvista called this its longest and most continuously mineralized intercept yet drilled at Caramanta, in Colombia's Antioquia ...
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Iniesta Facing Brazil at the Maracana would be magical
Brazil at the Maracana, which will host the finals of the 2013 Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup.The Selecao will get the Confederations Cup underway on June 15 with a Group A match against Japan, while the European champions, who have been drawn in Group B, will face Uruguay the following day."For any player to play in Brazil in the Maracana is unique, magical," the 29-year-old ...
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Shipping Wars: Uruguay and Argentina face off over rival port expansion plans
Argentina and Uruguay both want to be the shipping hubs of South America, or southern South America at least, and both are planning to considerably expand their port infrastructure in Buenos Aires and Montevideo respectively, which is leading to considerable diplomatic strain.
Argentina is a regional power in South America, the country is considered one of the more developed nations on the continent on-par with Uruguay (on paper at least, with a similar per capita income and Human Development Index rating) although the country occupies a majority of the continent with Brazil and presides over a massive coastline. Read more
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