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Brazil’s Ex-President Lula Convicted of Corruption

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and...

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Einstein Letters On Quantum Theory and God To Be Auctioned

Letters from Albert Einstein giving colleagues his thoughts on physics, God and Israel in the 1950s go under the hammer...

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Gulf Crisis Threatens Qatar Airways Transit Business

Qatar Airways has made Doha a global hub in just a few years, but barring it from Gulf states' airspace threatens its...

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Brazil’s Beleaguered President Temer Refuses To Resign

Brazil is reeling from a dramatic new twist in its ongoing political crisis. Amid calls for his resignation from the...

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Brazilian Leader Denies Hush Money Claim

President Michel Temer of Brazil has denied a newspaper report that he approved payments to silence a possible witness...

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Anti-Temer Strike Paralyses Major Cities In Brazil

Brazilian trade unions have staged nationwide strikes against President Michel Temer's austerity measures, causing...

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Violence Erupts In Rio After General Strike

Violence has erupted in Brazil at the end the country's first general strike in more than 20 years. Buses and cars have...

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Brazil Graft Probe Focuses On World Cup Football Stadiums

Testimony released by the Brazilian Supreme Court alleges that builders and politicians illegally profited from the...

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Brazil Corruption: Eight Cabinet Ministers Named In Petrobras Probe

Brazil has been rocked by dramatic new corruption allegations after a judge ordered investigations into eight cabinet...

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Brazil Police Banned From Striking By Supreme Court

The Supreme Court in Brazil has ruled that strikes by police are unconstitutional. In a seven to three ruling, the...

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Brazil First To Qualify For World Cup As Argentina Stumble

Brazil became the first team to qualify for the World Cup on Tuesday after beating Paraguay to clinch an eighth...

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Brazil Packers ‘sold Bad Meat Worldwide’

The authorities in Brazil suspended 33 government officials amid allegations that some of the country's biggest meat...

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Is Yellow Fever the New Zika Virus?

Health experts fear a random outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil could affect millions if it isn't contained. The entire...

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Emirates Marks 1st Year On World’s A380 Non-Stop Route Longest

Upgrading the aircraft type to the double-decker A380 on its daily non-stop service connecting Dubai and Auckland was...

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Footballer Pele’s Son Edinho In Jail Over Drug Trafficking Charges

The son of Brazil's footballing legend, Pele, has handed himself in to complete his sentence for money laundering and...

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Over 150 Prisoners Escape; 62 Still At Large

Riot policemen do a head count of inmates during an uprising at Alcacuz prison in Natal Brazilian authorities say more...

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Details of the Corinthians Offer To Didier Drogba

Corinthians have pulled out all the stops in an effort to get Didier Drogba to write the next chapter of his career in...

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5 Tech Trends To Tickle Your Fancy In 2017

A year with glimpses of far-reaching technological milestones that will influence the way we live. Over the past decade...

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Search For Fugitives After Deadly Jail Riot In Amazonas

Police in northern Brazil are searching for dozens of inmates who escaped from an overcrowded prison complex during a...