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Up to a dozen containers carrying chemicals caught fire at a terminal at Brazil’s largest port of Santos on Thursday (January 14, 2016), restricting ship movement, representatives of the port authority Codesp said. The fire at the container terminal operated by logistics company Localfrio in Guaruja, on the eastern side of Santos, started around 3 p.m. Brasilia time (1700 GMT), sending plumes of smoke across the shipping channel at the commodity exporting port. A spokeswoman […]
Brazil made a bold pledge before the United Nations General Assembly in September, promising to slash green house emissions by 43 percent by 2030 through a concerted effort to expand renewable energy sources. The ambitious proposal was announced as nations throughout the world put forward their plans to tackle climate change ahead of the UN COP-21 conference late November, where the Paris Agreement will be drawn up to replace the expired Kyoto Protocol. Brazilian President […]
Blast occurred in a restaurant in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, injuring eight people, destroying more than 50 buildings. The explosion happened in the early morning. Sixty five firefighters and 20 fire engines rushed to the site 15 minutes later. All the injured have been sent to hospital for treatment and nearby residents have all been evacuated. According to firefighters, they smelt gas in the air and gas leakage might be the cause of […]
(Reuters) — Rio de Janeiro is up against the clock to finish preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games as the one year countdown begins amidst construction setbacks and the discovery of harmful viruses in the water at one of the main venues. The first of three phases of test events is already underway. The test events focus on open-air events for athletes to acclimatise to conditions similar to those of the August Games and is […]
(Reuters) HSBC will shed almost 50,000 jobs and take an ax to its investment bank, cutting the assets of Europe’s biggest lender by a quarter in a bid to simplify and improve its sluggish performance. The bank said on Tuesday (June 9) about half the staff cuts will come from the sale of businesses in Brazil and Turkey. The other half will come from cutting about 10 percent of the remaining 233,000 staff by consolidating […]
THE Brazilian government on Tuesday (April 28) said it received with “profound consternation” the news that a Brazilian citizen had been executed in Indonesia along with eight other mostly international prisoners earlier in the day. The government also said this event compounded with the execution by firing squad of the Brazilian national Rodrigo Gularte earlier this year combined to create a “serious issue” as far as relations between Brazil and the southeast Asian country. “The Brazilian […]
Activists and supporters gathered outside the Indonesian Embassy in Manila on Tuesday (April 28) in a last-minute appeal for clemency for a Filipina facing execution. Filipina migrant Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two children, was arrested with 2.6 kilograms of heroin at Yogyakarta Airport in 2010. Hundreds of supporters marched to the embassy gate, carrying placards and banners urging Indonesia to stop the executions. “We’re very sad, we’re very outraged that the execution is […]
A rare white lion cub has been born in a zoo in southern Brazil, the first for the Latin American nation. Two-month-old female cub Clara is reportedly in good health. She was rejected by her mother shortly after giving birth but zookeepers at Beto Carrero World in Santa Catarina have been feeding the adorable cub every few hours a diet of goats’ milk mixed with essential vitamins. For the time being, Clara is in a […]
Google and has teamed up with the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS) in Brazil to create Amazon Street View so people from around the world can get a close-up view of the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Amazon Street View works the same as Google’s Street View and allows users on Google Maps to navigate through hundreds of kilometers of Brazil’s Amazon Jungle by simply clicking and viewing 360 degree photographs. Amazon Street View traverses more than […]
Despite repeated pleas from Australia, Brazil, and France, Indonesia refused presidential clemency for those who were sentenced to death due to drug-related charges.
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:50pm EDT (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff is running neck-and-neck with her main rival, Marina Silva, less than three weeks before Brazil’s presidential election that will likely go down to the wire in a runoff, a poll published on Monday showed. The new survey was consistent with polls last week that showed Rousseff had recovered from an initial surge by environmentalist Silva and the race will go […]
Germany won against Argentina in the finals of the 2014 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
