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Two Brazilian officials accompanying President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on a trip to Germany have been diagnosed with swine flu. Brazil's official Agencia Brasil news agency says the presidential security guard and an air force official will not leave Germany with Silva as he heads home after visiting Berlin and Hamburg. The two unnamed officials were in Portugal with Silva earlier this week when he attended the Iberoamerican summit. Silva then traveled to the Ukraine. The infected... Read Full Story
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday they did not expect a "dream" accord at the Copenhagen climate summit but foresaw a major step forward. "I do not believe we will achieve the accord we have all been dreaming of," Lula told reporters after talks with Merkel in Berlin. "Each president must take into account his domestic political constraints," he said, adding that he was "more optimistic than most" and expected "major progress" at... Read Full Story
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is to head a delegation of 700 officials at the global climate talks starting in Denmark next Monday, authorities said. The group includes 80 federal government officials, 100 regional officials, 40 lawmakers, as well as an unspecified number of scientists and environmental workers, the foreign ministry told O Globo newspaper on Friday. Brazil's main negotiator will be diplomat Luiz Alberto Figueiredo. The whole delegation will be co-directed by Dilma... Read Full Story
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The favorite in Honduras' weekend presidential election said on Friday he will try to persuade the world and especially Brazil to recognize him if he wins to end Central America's worst political crisis in decades. Conservative Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, who has a clear lead over his closest rival in recent polls, urged Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to see a new Honduran president-elect as legitimate even though Sunday's vote follows a June coup. "We will... Read Full Story
Brazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the comments Thursday just before an Amazon summit in which delegates signed a declaration calling for financial help from the industrial world to halt the deforestation that causes... Read Full Story
Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the comments just before an Amazon summit in which delegates signed a declaration calling for financial help from the industrial world to halt the deforestation that causes... Read Full Story
Representatives from eight nations straddling the Amazon basin plus French President Nicolas Sarkozy met Thursday in Brazil to urge next month's world climate talks to preserve the rainforests. Called by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the one-day meeting in the city of Manaus in the heart of the Amazon included Sarkozy because France's overseas department of French Guiana is in the region. Together with high-level delegates from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru... Read Full Story
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese proposals on combating global warming as "extremely encouraging." At a press conference, Sarkozy praised US President Barack Obama's "courage" for setting goals that would reduce US carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020, while also offering positive words for China's proposed moves to reduce carbon emissions. "The latest statements by Barack... Read Full Story
The presidents of eight nations straddling the Amazon basin plus France will meet Thursday in the heart of the Amazon rainforest to lay out a save-the-jungle proposal for next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen. Called by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, the biggest stock holder in the Amazon basin, the one-day meeting includes President Nicolas Sarkozy since France's overseas department of French Guyana extends into the Amazon basin. Together with leaders from Bolivia... Read Full Story
The presidents of eight nations straddling the Amazon basin plus France will meet Thursday in the heart of the Amazon rainforest to lay out a save-the-jungle proposal for next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen. Called by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, the biggest stock holder in the Amazon basin, the one-day meeting includes President Nicolas Sarkozy since France's overseas department of French Guyana extends into the Amazon basin. Together with leaders from Bolivia... Read Full Story
