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Brazil v Italy post-match reaction to Confederations Cup clash – video
a 2-0 victory over Mexico in the Confederations Cup, Brazilian players Neymar and Lucas talk at the mixed zone of Arena Castelao on Wednesday. Neymar, who scored a stunning volley in the game against Mexico, looks forward to the match against Italy on ...
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Debutants Cuba eyeing bright future
Cuba 's last appearance at a FIFA competition came all the way back at the 1938 FIFA World Cup(TM) in France, the young players preparing to compete at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013 are determined not to make their nation wait so long again. Fully focused on both present success and future growth, this crop of promising Cuban talents look well-placed to continue their country’s ...
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Dominican Republic in crossfire of two deadly wars Washington
Santo Domingo.- While the Dominican Republic wages a successful fight against the dealing with humans, it will have to escalate its war on drug trafficking, according to two reports released separately in Washington on Wednesday. The Annual Report on Trafficking in Persons keeps Dominican Republic in Category 2, along with others in the region such as Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Argentina, ...
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Mexico – GDP demand components confirm the soft patch in 1Q13
The breakdown of 1Q GDP growth in Mexico confirmed the weakness of foreign demand but also the moderation of domestic demand. Today, we expect April retail sales to show that there has been no reverse in the deceleration trend in consumption. Also today we will be looking at unemployment figures in Brazil, expected to show that the labor market is losing some steam. In addition, we expect GDP ...
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Mexican-American scholar tells Del Mar College students that fight for equality is not over
Nadia Tamez-Robledo/Caller-Times Jose Angel Gutierrez, a founding member of La Raza Unida Party and political science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, speaks Wednesday at Del Mar College. Jose Angel Gutierrez was a founding member of La Raza Unida ...
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UNHCR Africa Refugee Crisis Overshadowed by Syria
GENEVA -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says the plight of millions of refugees and displaced people in Africa is being overshadowed by the crisis in Syria. To mark World Refugee day, the UNHCR is appealing to the international community to remember that Africans who are forcibly displaced by conflict also are in need of support. The U.N. refugee agency reports there are ...
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Transit Fee Hikes in Brazil Scrapped Amid Volatile Protests
Leaders in two of Brazil's biggest cities have scrapped plans to increase public transportation fees, which triggered massive anti-government protests throughout the South American nation. Officials in both Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro announced their decisions Wednesday to revert back to the previous fares. Several other Brazilian cities had already canceled plans to increase transit ...
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Russia China Downgraded in US Trafficking Report
Trafficking in Persons report Wednesday, and Russia, Uzbekistan and China were automatically downgraded to the lowest Tier 3 ranking. In total, the State Department says 21 of the 188 countries in its report do not fully comply with minimum standards to address trafficking and are not making significant efforts to do ...
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ICC Moves Kenyatta Trial to November
The International Criminal Court says Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will now go on trial November 12. The court announced the new start date Thursday, after granting Kenyatta's defense team more time to prepare their case. The trial had been scheduled to begin in July, but the court said there were delays in the prosecution providing evidence. Kenyatta is charged with five counts ...
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Neymar Brazil Knock Out Mexico
Neymar made the difference for Brazil again on Wednesday, scoring in the ninth minute and assisting on a goal by Jo to give the hosts a 2-0 win over Mexico at Fortaleza and secure a spot in the semifinals of the Confederations ...
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Brazil riots latest Protests continue at Confederations Cup matches despite Rio and Sao Paulo leaders agreeing to reverse public transport fare hikes
Mass protests continued across Brazil last night despite leaders of the country's two biggest cities saying that they would reverse the increase in bus and subway fares that ignited the week-long demonstrations in the first ...
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Iraqi Voters Cast Ballots in Delayed Elections
Iraqis in two Sunni-majority provinces are voting Thursday in provincial elections that officials delayed by two months because of security concerns. Tight security, including bans on vehicular traffic, is in place in Anbar province in western Iraq and Ninewah province in the country's south. Some 2.8 million people are eligible to vote in the polls to fill 69 provincial council ...
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Afghan Peace Talks Not Expected Thursday
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Secretary of State John Kerry spoke twice with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to ease his concerns. Preliminary negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban had been expected to start on Thursday in Doha, Qatar, but now the start date is unclear. Mr. Karzai, apparently irked by the opening of a Taliban political office this week in Doha, canceled ...
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Brazil RiotCheerfulness and football are no longer enough for Brazilians Latin America News
Brazil’s football players cheer on their semi-finals at the Confederations Cup, but the protesters outside the stadium in Fortaleza can not get impressed.The protests overshadow the long sports festival – and provide the player with a ...
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T.S. Barry hears down on Mexican coast
VERACRUZ, Mexico - Tropical Storm Barry bore down on Mexico's Gulf Coast early Thursday as civil defense workers readied emergency shelters and forecasters warned of potentially deadly flash flooding from the system's drenching ...
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Brazilians mock Pele after the World Cup winner calls for an end to protests
Brazilian football great Pele has called on thousands of protestors demonstrating over poor quality public services and corruption to leave the streets and focus on football, an appeal that was quickly met with derision on social ...
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Tropical Storm Barry about to make landfall in Mexico | Storm alerts
OUTLOOK: Tropical Storm Barry is the second named storm of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. After bulking up in the warm waters of the southern Gulf ...
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Insight Chinese whispers Who wants to bet on the Nicaragua Canal
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (L) and Wang Jing, chairman of the Hong Kong international company Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. (HKND Group) celebrate signing a concession agreement for the construction of an inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua at the Casa de los Pueblos in Managua June 14, ...
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Brazil cities roll back transport hikes in effort to quell protests but it may be too little too late
SAO PAULO Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited anti-government protests that have spread across the nation in the past week. Many people doubted the move would quiet the demonstrations, which have moved well beyond outrage over the fare hikes into communal cries against poor public services in Latin ...
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Brazil protests continue despite appeasement effort
SAO PAULO Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited anti-government protests that have spread across the nation in the past week. Many people doubted the move would quiet the demonstrations, which have moved well beyond outrage over the fare hikes into communal cries against poor public services in Latin ...
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Ex-prof. arrested in Mexico on child sex charges
LOS ANGELES-It was a call from a Mexican citizen who recognized the photo of a former University of Southern California professor on the FBI's most-wanted list that gave authorities the final tip they needed to bring in a man suspected of sex crimes with children who had slipped through their fingers when he abruptly left town two years ago. An FBI agent at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City ...
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Singapore Haze Soars to Hazardous Levels
A smoky haze fueled by forest fires in Indonesia continues to reach hazardous new levels in neighboring Singapore and is threatening to further irritate ties between the two countries. Singapore officials urged people to stay indoors Thursday, as a shroud of smog hanging over the city-state sent an air pollution index soaring to an all-time high of 371, shattering a record set the previous ...
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Protesters In Brazil Claim Victory Fare Hikes Rescinded
Two cities in Brazil have canceled bus and subway fare hikes after massive demonstrations. Anger over poor public services and government spending on sports arenas brought thousands of protesters into the ...
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Cooperation or servility Visit of Mr. Joe Biden to Brazil
Wladmir Coelho In 1947 President Eurico Dutra of Brazil sent to Congress the draft of the Statute of Oil. The presidential proposal was to buy oil and create domestic refineries. Oil exploration, itself, still released to international companies supported this decision in awe, on the "verge" of a war between the United States and the Soviet ...
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China Vietnam Agree on Hotline to Resolve Maritime Disputes
China and Vietnam have agreed to set up an emergency hotline to help quickly resolve territorial disputes that have occasionally strained relations between the two ...
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Latin American unity plagued by tensions
Division and suspicion seem the order of the day in Latin America at present, negating any optimism that the countries of the region may one day move toward a regional integration model based on that of the EU.
Latin America has seen itself become heavily divided over the issue of whether to readmit Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS) after the 2009 coup, with all the Central American states accepting the new government while big regional players like Brazil and Mexico insist that more must be done before they’ll recognize it. Meanwhile, President Alan Garcia of Peru has told Latin America news providers that there is a quiet arms race occurring in the region. In all, it seems that regional integration along the same lines as the EU remains a long way off at present. Read more
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