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Recent News Headlines : Sao Paulo

TAKING CINEMA TO THE PULPIT BRAZIL'S EVANGELICAL FILM MY PARTY IS NOT OWNED BY ANY EVANGELICAL CHURCH.

Stress on traditional values and adherence to Bible as people search for new direction in scandal-stricken country...
2nd October, 2016 399

BRAZIL SUPREME COURT OKS PROBE INTO ALLEGATIONS CITING TEMER

Brazil Supreme Court Judge Teori Zavascki approved the probe that also cites Senate President Renan Calheiros, among others, the court said...
24th September, 2016 372

MANTEGA, 67, WAS ORDERED RELEASED FROM CUSTODY A FEW HOURS LATER.

A few hours after his arrest, federal Judge Sergio Moro ordered Mantega released from custody...
22nd September, 2016 431

RIO DE JANEIRO--FORMER PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA MUST STAND TRIAL ON CHARGES OF MONEY LAUNDERING AND CORRUPTION, A BRAZILIAN JUDGE RULED TUESDAY.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva allegedly received benefits from Group OAS...
21st September, 2016 0

BRAZIL TV STAR DOMINGOS MONTAGNER DROWNS ON SET OF SOAP OPERA

He had been married for 14 years to actress Luciana Lima, with whom he had three children...
16th September, 2016 1128

AN INDEX OF BANKING AND FINANCIAL SHARES TRADING IN THE SAO PAULO STOCK EXCHANGE .IFNC GAINED THE MOST IN 10 DAYS ON THURSDAY, ADDING 1.8 PERCENT TO 6,120 POINTS.

Fallout from the scandal has made it harder for banks to predict trends in defaults amid an uncertain political and economic outlook...
15th September, 2016 5

FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA CHARGED IN MASSIVE CORRUPTION SCANDAL

Brazilians had known that Lula was under investigation, and police had recommended charges against him last month for allegedly accepting improper renovations to a seaside apartment...
15th September, 2016 756

DALLAGNOL SAID THAT LULA, BECAUSE OF HIS CONTROL OF THE MACHINERY OF THE WORKERS' PARTY AND THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT, WAS THE CENTRAL FIGURE IN THE SCHEME.

Dallagnol said Lula, who became a hero to many poor Brazilians during his 2003-10 government, was being charged with corruption and money laundering as part of the scheme...
15th September, 2016 2329

RIOT POLICE DETAIN A MAN DURING AN ANTI-IMPEACHMENT PROTEST IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, ON SUNDAY.

Many fear a repeat of 2013, when violent protests roiled Brazil and masked youths fought pitched battles with police in Rio and Sao Paulo for months afterward...
6th September, 2016 15204

POLICE, PROTESTERS CLASH IN BRAZIL AFTER DILMA ROUSSEFF'S OUSTER

Rousseff has vowed to form a strong opposition against Temer, who was her vice-president...
5th September, 2016 73

SAO PAULO AUTHORITIES SAID THEY WERE FORCED TO USE TEAR GAS, STUN GRENADES AND WATER CANNONS TO STOP VANDALISM AFTER AN "INITIALLY PEACEFUL" DEMONSTRATION AGAINST PRESIDENT MICHEL TEMER.

In a statement, the public safety department said a group became violent at a subway station, destroying turnstiles and throwing rocks at anti-riot police after the demonstration ended...
5th September, 2016 94

ROUSSEFF IMPEACHMENT KICKS OFF DIPLOMATIC CRISIS WITHIN LATIN AMERICAN LEFT

Suffice to say that Venezuela has political prisoners...
2nd September, 2016 0

HE TRUSTS THAT UNDER PRESIDENT TEMER'S LEADERSHIP, BRAZIL AND THE UNITED NATIONS WILL CONTINUE THEIR TRADITIONAL CLOSE PARTNERSHIP.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry was among the first to respond, issuing a lengthy statement that denounced the "parliamentary-judicial coup that has been accomplished" against Ms Rousseff...
1st September, 2016 17

DILMA ROUSSEFF IS OUSTED AS BRAZILS PRESIDENT IN IMPEACHMENT VOTE

But Ms. Rousseff and her supporters call her ouster a coup that undermines Brazil's young democracy...
1st September, 2016 1197

BRAZIL SENATE OUSTS PRESIDENT ROUSSEFF ESTRANGED RUNNING MATE TAKES OVER

In May, Temer took over as interim president after the Senate impeached and suspended Rousseff...
1st September, 2016 0

SPEAKING TO HER SUPPORTERS FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE AFTER THE VOTE, ROUSSEFF PLEDGED TO APPEAL HER IMPEACHMENT, WHICH SHE CALLED A PARLIAMENTARY COUP.

Edison Lobao, of the PMDB, who voted for Rousseff's ouster, said: "I couldn't have voted differently regardless of who was the president...
1st September, 2016 158

BUT MS ROUSSEFF AND HER SUPPORTERS CALL HER OUSTER A COUP THAT UNDERMINES BRAZIL'S YOUNG DEMOCRACY.

Ms Rousseff repeatedly insisted that she did nothing illegal, pointing out that her predecessors also manipulated the federal budget...
31st August, 2016 0

IN BRAZIL'S LARGEST CITY, SAO PAULO, FIREWORKS EXPLODED IN CELEBRATION AFTER THE VOTE.

Motorists honked car horns in the Brazilian capital in a blaring tribute to the removal of a president whose popularity had dwindled to single figures since winning re-election in 2014...
31st August, 2016 0

A DEFIANT DILMA ROUSSEFF DELIVERED WHAT MAY BE HER LAST SPEECH AS PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL ON MONDAY, APPEALING TO SENATORS NOT TO VOTE FOR HER OUSTER.

Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rouseff makes impassioned speech to stay in office...
30th August, 2016 0

BRAZIL'S DILMA ROUSSEFF TO TESTIFY AT IMPEACHMENT TRIAL

If Ms Rousseff, 68, is impeached, acting President Michel Temer will serve out her term, which ends in December 2018...
29th August, 2016 12

BOTTURA HELPED CREATE REFETTORIO GASTROMOTIVA AFTER HE WAS CONTACTED BY FELLOW INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED CHEF DAVID HERTZ, WHO HAS DEDICATED A DECADE TO SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH FOOD SERVICE.

All the meals served at Refettorio Gastromotiva are made from donated food...
19th August, 2016 9

PELE WAS THE PREFERRED CHOICE TO LIGHT THE CAULDRON, AN HONOUR EVENTUALLY GIVEN TO BRAZILIAN MARATHON RUNNER VANDERLEI DE LIMA.

Last month, Pele held the Olympic flame in Santos, a city near Sao Paulo, where he started his career...
19th August, 2016 0

RIO POLICE FIRE TEARGAS, DETAIN 50 ANTI-OLYMPIC PROTESTERS VIDEO

Brazil has been caught up in waves of both anti- and pro-government demonstrations recently...
13th August, 2016 58

BRAZIL'S SENATE INDICTS PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF, OPENS IMPEACHMENT TRIAL

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10th August, 2016 25

"TO MANY BRAZILIANS AND OBSERVERS THE CONTROVERSIAL IMPEACHMENT PROCESS MORE CLOSELY RESEMBLES A COUP D'ETAT," SANDERS SAID IN A STATEMENT ISSUED ON MONDAY.

Her critics say Rousseff's interventionist economic policies and inability to govern led to the debacle in Latin America's largest country...
10th August, 2016 0

BUT AFTER A SEVEN-YEAR BUILDUP IN WHICH EVERYTHING THAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG DID, THE OLYMPICS HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED IN BRAZIL'S SECOND-BIGGEST CITY.

Protests against the Olympics have taken place in poorer parts of the city, but inside the Olympic Park, dissenting voices are few and far between...
8th August, 2016 0

'BRAZIL'S EXASPERATION WITH GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION THREATENS TO OVERSHADOW RIO OLYMPICS'

Heavy clashes erupted in Rio de Janeiro on Friday at the time of the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony...
6th August, 2016 27

OPERATED BY THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, A MOVEMENT THAT BOASTS NEARLY NINE MILLION MEMBERS ACROSS MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING CANADA, THE TEMPLE IS THE CHURCH'S HEADQUARTERS.

By the 2010 census, that number fell to 65 per cent, with many looking to Pentecostal churches like the Universal Church and Deus E Amor (God is Love)...
5th August, 2016 89

BEING AN OLYMPIC GYMNAST TAKES DEDICATION, BUT SO DOES BEING A POKEMON GO PLAYER.

Japanese Gymnast Racks up Olympian 5,000 'Pokemon Go' Bill in Rio...
5th August, 2016 84

JAMAL SALEM AND ROWEIDA BAKKER ADMIT KNOWING LITTLE ABOUT BRAZIL BEFORE ARRIVING IN LATIN AMERICA'S LARGEST NATION.

We found caring people and a peaceful country and nothing like we heard before...
3rd August, 2016 2

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SIMILARLY, THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES IS NOW INVESTING IN DESALINATION PLANTS AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNITS BECAUSE IT LACKS FRESH WATER.

Why fresh water shortages will cause the next great global crisis...
8th March, 2015 9230

IN PARTICULAR, MS. ROUSSEFF AND HER SUPPORTERS HAVE ARGUED, HOW CAN THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS BE DIRECTED BY SOMEONE WHO IS GOING ON TRIAL FOR CORRUPTION HIMSELF?

He is now delivering some of the most impassioned speeches in favor of Ms. Rousseff's impeachment, calling her government disgraceful...
15th April, 2016 8974

DEFORESTATION IN THE AMAZON RIVER BASIN, HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY, MAY ALSO BE ADDING TO SAO PAULO'S WATER CRISIS.

Officials at Sabesp, the water utility controlled by Sao Paulo State, have acknowledged lowering the water pressure in the distribution network...
17th February, 2015 7435

THE RIGHT CHOICES NOW, IN TERMS OF LONG-TERM PLANNING FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORT, COULD IMPROVE PEOPLE'S LIVES AND FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE, THE REPORT FOUND.

The finding upends the notion that it is too expensive to do anything about climate change - or that such efforts would make little real difference...
8th September, 2015 6353

DANA AL-BALKHI, WHO ARRIVED IN BRAZIL IN DECEMBER 2013, ONE OF THE FIRST SYRIAN REFUGEES TO COME TO THE COUNTRY.

Since 2013 when Brazil opened its doors, 1,740 Syrian refugees have been registered in the country...
11th March, 2015 5553

IN SOME WAYS, THIS LEAVES THE PRESIDENT EVEN MORE RELIANT ON MR. TEMER, WHOM MS. ROUSSEFF NAMED AS HER CHIEF NEGOTIATOR WITH THE FRACTIOUS CONGRESS THIS YEAR.

A ruling against Ms. Rousseff could open the way for impeachment proceedings, potentially allowing Mr. Temer to take her place, though she could appeal at the Supreme Court...
7th August, 2015 5341

THE MOVE AGAINST MR. DA SILVA RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS POLITICAL FUTURE AND THE AMBITIONS OF THE GOVERNING WORKERS' PARTY TO RETAIN THE PRESIDENCY.

Both the president and the former president deny doing so...
4th March, 2016 4584

PARAG KHANNA, CONNECTOGRAPHY MAPPING THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CIVILIZATION WE NEED TO RETHINK THE POLITICAL AND FUNCTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES.

So the way into the heart of North America may eventually be these Arctic shipping routes...
29th April, 2016 3988

BRAZIL MINISTER OUSTED AFTER SECRET TAPE REVEALS PLOT TO TOPPLE PRESIDENT ROUSSEFF

At one point, Juca appears to mock the Lava Jato investigators for their high-mindedness and determination to tackle all corrupt senators and congressmen...
24th May, 2016 3770

BRAZILS SLUMPING ECONOMY AND BRIBERY SCANDAL EAT AWAY AT DILMA ROUSSEFFS POPULARITY

These strategies were a shift from the 1990s, when Brazil's government ended Petrobras's monopoly, exposing the company to market forces while keeping it under state control...
20th March, 2015 3107

BRAZIL TRANSFIXED AS VOTES ARE CAST ON IMPEACHING DILMA ROUSSEFF

Ms. Rousseff can still appeal to the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brazil's highest court, though it rejected previous motions to have the impeachment measure dismissed...
17th April, 2016 2986

WITH PROSECUTORS SEEKING HIS ARREST, MR. DA SILVA WAS SWORN IN AS CHIEF OF STAFF TO HIS PROTEGE AND SUCCESSOR, PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF.

Tempers Flare in Brazil Over Intercepts of Calls by Ex-President Lula...
18th March, 2016 2803

BRAZIL SEEKS ARREST OF EX-PRESIDENT IN GRAFT INQUIRY

This is an attempt to muzzle a political leader, Mr. da Silva's lawyer, Cristiano Zanin Martins, said in a statement...
11th March, 2016 2274

BRAZILIAN PROTESTERS CALL FOR PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF'S IMPEACHMENT

Tens of thousands of people take part in protests across Brazil, calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff...
16th August, 2015 2257

SOUTH AFRICA'S GOVERNMENT SAID PARTS OF THE COUNTRY ARE SEEING THEIR WORST DROUGHT SINCE 1992.

California isn't the only place experiencing record-breaking, intense drought a?? countries around the world such as Brazil, North Korea and South Africa are seeing lower-than-average precipitation...
26th July, 2015 1963

DEMOCRACY CAN BE A MYSTIFYING, ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE AFFAIR ANYWHERE, BUT BRAZIL'S CONGRESS HAS FEW EQUALS.

There is the Party of the Brazilian Woman, for instance -- a group whose elected members in Congress are all men...
14th May, 2016 1893

TARCIANO ANDRE BARBOSA, 40, A TECH ANALYST IN SAO PAULO, SAID HE HAD TO WARN HIS FATHER-IN-LAW ABOUT CRACKING POLITICAL JOKES DURING HIS DAUGHTER'S RECENT BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Lauana de Lima Oliveira, 22, a saleswoman from Sao Paulo, recalled a recent day when she decided to go to work in a red tank top...
16th April, 2016 1791

IN DECEMBER, PROSECUTORS CHARGED EXECUTIVES FROM SIX OF THE COUNTRY'S LARGEST CONSTRUCTION FIRMS FOR ALLEGEDLY CHANNELLING KICKBACKS INTO A PETROBRAS SCHEME TO PAY POLITICIANS.

Investigators allege private firms paid corrupt officials in order to get lucrative Petrobras contracts...
6th March, 2015 1784

BRAZIL ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS DRAW HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ACROSS 18 CITIES

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians joined anti-government rallies across the country on Sunday, ramping up the pressure on embattled president Dilma Rousseff...
13th March, 2016 1781

RELEASE OF TAPPED PHONE CALLS BETWEEN LULA AND ROUSSEFF SPARKS MASS PROTESTS IN BRAZIL

Calls secretly recorded by investigating judge suggest president gave her predecessor a government role to avoid prosecution on corruption charges...
17th March, 2016 1779

CHANCELLOR GEORGE OSBORNE SAID THAT GROWTH IN MANUFACTURING AND CONSTRUCTION AS WELL AS SERVICES WAS VERY ENCOURAGING.

Related Stories UK economic growth slowed in the three months to September, with the economy expanding by 0...
24th October, 2014 1624

TSUNAMI WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED IN CHILE AND PERU, FOLLOWING A STRONG EARTHQUAKE NEAR IQUIQUE.

Chile earthquake 10 people killed and a million evacuated...
18th September, 2015 1619

BRAZIL'S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT STRIPPED OF DUTIES IN COUNTRY'S FIRST IMPEACHMENT IN 24 YEARS

Dilma Rousseff suspended as senate votes to impeach Brazilian president...
12th May, 2016 1515

RECORD BRAZIL PROTESTS PUT ROUSSEFF'S FUTURE IN DOUBT

As in previous protests, Sunday's rallies were led by middle-class Brazilians angry over growing allegations of corruption in Rousseff's administration...
14th March, 2016 1297

TWITTER USERS BEGAN LEERING AT A BLOND 12-YEAR-OLD NAMED VALENTINA SCHULZ.

Men tweeted creepy things about a Brazilian girl on 'MasterChef Junior.' Here's how Brazilian women fought back...
6th November, 2015 1274

THE LATEST TWIST IN THE CRISIS UNDERSCORES THE TUMULT IN BRAZIL OVER MR. DA SILVA'S NOMINATION.

Justice Mendes said the calls, including one with Ms. Rousseff, suggested an effort to obstruct an investigation into Mr. da Silva by a federal judge, Sergio Moro...
19th March, 2016 1244

BRAZILIAN SENATOR K TIA ABREU, KNOWN BY CRITICS AS MISS DEFORESTATION AND CHAINSAW QUEEN .

In a controversial move, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has appointed agribusiness advocate KA?tia Abreu as the countrya??s new agriculture minister...
25th December, 2014 1138

BRAZIL'S LULA DETAINED IN CORRUPTION PROBE ROUSSEFF OBJECTS

Police picked up Lula at his home on the outskirts of Sao Paulo and released him after three hours of questioning...
4th March, 2016 1017

AS YOU KNOW, SEXUAL ABUSE OF FOREIGN TOURISTS IN AYAHUASCA CENTRES IS NOT UNCOMMON.

David Hill Interview with US scientist Dennis McKenna on powerful Amazon hallucinogen, plant intelligence and environmental crises...
30th July, 2016 989

NEARLY A MILLION PROTEST BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT, ECONOMY, CORRUPTION

Nearly a million protest brazil's president economy corruption...
16th March, 2015 974

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A BRAZILIAN JUDGE HAS ACCEPTED CHARGES AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA FOR ALLEGEDLY OBSTRUCTING A CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION INVOLVING ST

Former Brazilian President Silva to stand trial for allegedly obstructing corruption investigation...
30th July, 2016 0

IT'S BEEN A HARD YEAR FOR BRAZIL -- AND ESPECIALLY FOR RIO.

Brazil's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year...
30th July, 2016 72

DILMA ROUSSEFF WILL NOT FACE HER IMPEACHMENT TRIAL QUIETLY

Only major reforms can keep Brazil from moving from crisis to crisis, says Eduardo Giannetti da Fonseca, an economist and author in Sao Paulo...
13th May, 2016 15

BRAZIL'S DILMA ROUSSEFF OUSTED BY SENATE AS ECONOMIC ISSUES, OLYMPICS LOOM

Brazil's Rousseff ousted by Senate as economic issues, Olympics loom...
12th May, 2016 115

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL -- AS SHE DESPERATELY FIGHTS OFF IMPEACHMENT, PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF SOMETIMES COMPARES HER REMOVAL TO THE MILITARY OVERTHROW OF A LABOR-FRIENDLY GOVERNMENT IN 1964.

Ghosts of Brazil's past haunt presidential impeachment crisis...
11th May, 2016 81

BRAZILIAN LAWMAKERS ON SUNDAY AUTHORIZED IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF IN A ROWDY, CIRCUS-LIKE SHOWDOWN THAT PLUNGED LATIN AMERI

Brazil's lower house gives green light to Rousseff impeachment...
18th April, 2016 4

THOUSANDS OF PRO-IMPEACHMENT DEMONSTRATORS PACKED SAO PAULO'S CENTRAL PAULISTA AVENIDA, DRAPED IN BRAZILIAN FLAGS AND WAVING BANNERS READING DILMA OUT .

Brazil legislators win vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff...
18th April, 2016 32

BUT MANY BRAZILIANS, INCLUDING QUITE A FEW WHO ONCE CHEERED LULA, ARE FED UP.

How Brazil, the darling of the developing world, came undone...
15th April, 2016 574

EFFORT TO IMPEACH BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF CLEARS CONGRESSIONAL PANEL

Ms. Rousseff remains widely unpopular as Brazil endures its worst economic downturn in decades...
12th April, 2016 1362

RIO DE JANEIRO RAQUEL VARJAO, AN ADVERTISING PROFESSIONAL IN SAO PAULO, HAD JUST PICKED UP HER SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER FROM SCHOOL WHEN THREE PASSING MOTORISTS CURSED HER.

Brazil crisis Choose your colours carefully or face public fury...
31st March, 2016 2

BORN ON MAY 3, 1959 TO A MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILY IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL'S LARGEST CITY, ROGER AGNELLI STUDIED ECONOMICS AT FUNDACAO ARMANDO ALVARES PENTEADO IN HIS HOMETOWN.

Ex-Vale chief Roger Agnelli dies in plane crash...
21st March, 2016 1

HIS DECISION TO SUSPEND LULA FROM MINISTERIAL OFFICE CAN BE APPEALED BEFORE A PLENARY SESSION OF THE COURT.

Pollster Datafolha estimated about 95,000 people took part in the Sao Paulo demonstration...
19th March, 2016 1

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