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Brazil expects extradition of banker from Monacco
San Diego
BRASILIA - Brazil's most-wanted white collar criminal will be extradited from Monaco and face charges in one of the country's biggest bank frauds ever, the justice ministry said Friday. | Prince Albert of Monaco approved a court decision to extradite Salvatore Cacciola, who was sentenced by a Brazil...
 Nurse Gladys Wachira who has worked at the hospital for 18 years, poses in the Paediatric ward in Karatina Hospital , Karatina, Kenya, Tuesday Nov. 7, 2006. Malaria cases in the highlands of Kenya are increasing, possibly due to the rise in temperature i
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Brazil launches cheap new malaria pill
Canada Dot Com
| LONDON (Reuters) - Brazil launched a new treatment for malaria on Thursday, marking the latest step in a global program to make cheap two-in-one pills available to millions at risk from the mosquito-borne killer. | The country's state-run drugmaker Farmanguinhos is working with the Drugs for Negle...
Suit against ExcelAire for Brazil jet crash thrown out
Newsday
| A federal judge in Brooklyn has thrown out a lawsuit brought against Ronkonkoma-based ExcelAire by the families of Brazilians killed in a September 2006 jet crash in the Amazon rain forest, saying the case is better tried in Brazil. But attorneys f...
Students selected to take part in peace-education program
Florida Times Union
| CISV Jacksonville, a volunteer-based nonprofit promoting peace education and global friendship, has selected 49 student delegates for its 2008 programs. | Participating in national, international and local programs, these student delegates will be ...
Six of the best places to sleep on sand
The Guardian
| Places where you can rest your head to the sound of the waves, from Sweden's archipelago to the Brazilian Beach of Sleep | Mr Sandman ... the beach at Sandwood Bay, Scotland. Photograph: Ashley Cooper Spain | Negotiating the spiny foliage to the hi...
Copa airlines
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Copa Airlines announces new destination: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
TravelDailyNews
Copa Airlines, a subsidiary of Copa Holdings S.A., announced that it will offer a new service from Panama and connecting cities to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, beginning August 21, 2008...
Migrant workers in Dubai creek, UAE, November 2007
WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis
Wanted: Skilled workers for a growing economy in Brazil
International Herald Tribune
| : For almost any nation other than China or India, achieving more than 5 percent growth a year is hard. Doing it without skilled labor is even harder. | But that is the challenge...
 So Petersburgo, Rssia - Presidente Lula cumprimenta o primeiro - ministro da ndia, Manmohan Singh, observado pelo presidente dos Estados Unidos, George W. Bush. wnhires (mb1)
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US cuts trade benefits for India, Brazil
The Times Of India
|                 | WASHINGTON: Gold necklaces from India, an alloy from Brazil and 23 other developing country products will no longer...
World stocks fall on financial shares, oil drops
The Times Of India
|                   SAO PAULO: World stocks edged lower on Friday, getting no relief from a decline in crude prices as concerns of further banking write-downs weighed on financial shares. | Oil prices...
BHP settles for Rio's iron ore price
The Australian
| BHP Billiton has agreed to the same record iron ore contract price increases negotiated earlier by its $US160 billion ($166 billion) takeover target Rio Tinto, locking in anexpected $500 million profit boost due to surging Chinese steel demand. | T...
Fluminense furious as rivals make fun of final loss
The Guardian
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 4 (Reuters) - Libertadores Cup runners-up Fluminense failed to see the funny side on Friday after their final defeat to LDU was publicly celebrated by local rivals Flamengo. Fluminense won the second leg of the two-leg tie 3-1 on...
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Aker Solutions awarded fourth deepwater drilling riser in Brazil
Marine Norway
| After the inauguration of the new drilling riser manufacturing facility in Rio das Ostras, Aker Solutions has signed an agreement with Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás S.A. for the delivery of a fourth deepwater marine drilling riser system. | The value of the agreement is approximately USD 55 million.  |   | The project scope comprises the pr...
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