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The number of deaths following flooding and landslides in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina has risen to 97, with 19 people missing.  

Leprosy still prevalent in US A new study has revealed that leprosy, also known as Hansens disease, is still prevalent in the United States.  

Fan-filmed video footage of NIGHTWISH performing the song "Amaranth" on November 18, 2008 in Vila Velha, Brazil can be viewed below (courtesy of "easyalot").  

Although the world leaders of the Group of 20 were united with President George W. Bush in Washington D.C. to work together to revive the world's economy on Nov.  

Brazil City Parks Board President Caroline McCullough shakes hands with Brad Deal during his final meeting on the park board after six years.  

Officials believe the alleged suspects in the daylight robbery of an unidentified elderly Brazil woman Monday had a busy day.  

At the rear of Cafe Belo on Brighton Avenue in Allston, firefighters battled a two-alarm fire yesterday that closed the popular Brazilian meeting place.  

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce SA, also the world's largest iron ore producer, plans to close indefinitely a mine in Canada's Ontario province, shut down operations for July in the province of Newfoundland and ...  

September 1, 2008 -- On the 18th June the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution (A/HRC/8/L.18) on 'The elimination of discrimination...  

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil: Internacional won the Copa Sudamericana yesterday, snatching an extra-time equaliser to draw the second-leg of the final 1-1 with Estudiantes and win 2-1 on aggregate.  

Brazilian authorities were on Wednesday working to identify a mystery illness that killed a 53-year-old South African man visiting Rio de Janeiro.  

Brasilia: Brazilian authorities have apparently approved the sale of 100 state-of-the-art, medium range air-to-surface anti-radiation missiles to Pakistan which can be used to attack and destroy radar ...  

Naples Overnight Crime Father sends 9 year old son on "beer run" Sheriff's deputy finds missing girl unharmed Law bans homeless sleeping spots A new law might be impossible to enforce.  

Brazil tried to rush aid on Wednesday to 50,000 people driven from their homes by rain-spawned mudslides that have killed at least 86 people, while helicopter crews searched for families isolated by ...  

Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health Also Included In: Sexual Health / STDs ; Aid / Disasters Article Date: 01 Dec 2008 - 5:00 PST The sexual exploitation of children is not inevitable.  

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It was both the best day and the worst day ever. It was the worst day because these 10 men had the dreaded disease, leprosy.  

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 30: At least 110 people have died in weeks of unusually heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, EFE reported Sunday.  

Brazilian Central Bank President Henrique Meirelles on Wednesday brushed aside suspicion that employment may drop in 2009 amid world financial crisis, saying the country will create more new jobs, though in a ...  

Search and rescue officials found nine bodies Saturday, bringing the death toll from flooding in southern Brazil to 109, the state news agency said.  

Rescue workers have pulled nine more bodies from beneath mud and rubble in Brazil's flood-ravaged southern state of Santa Catarina, bringing the death toll to 109, the state civil defense department said Saturday.Most of the 109 victims were killed in mudslides and 19 still were missing. At least...  

Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain has killed at least 109 people in southern Brazil over the past week, local civil defence officials say.  

Forecasters warned Friday that yet more rain could fall this weekend on waterlogged southern Brazil, raising fears of renewed mudslides in a region where at least 100 people have died due to storms.Santa Catarina state's civil defense department said in a statement that mudslides killed most of...  

Rio de Janeiro - The rains that devastated 30 towns in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina could be an early consequence of global warming, a climatologist from the Brazilian National Institute for ...  

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Destruction of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forest appeared to accelerate slightly over the past year after slowing since 2004, the government said on Friday.  

Brazil describes new plan to slow deforestation Comments SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil plans to boost spending and programs to significantly slow destruction of the Amazon rain forest by 2017, aiming to reduce ...  

President Dmitry Medvedev reviews the honour guard during a wreath laying ceremony at the Second World War monument in Rio de Janeiro Nov.  

Flood victims waded through waist-deep water into mud-filled houses yesterday in a devastated part of southern Brazil where neighbours set up patrols to keep looters away and lined up by the thousands for ...  

Hungry survivors looted supermarkets and emergency crews tried to get aid to nearly 80,000 people driven from their homes Wednesday, as rain-spawned mudslides and floods killed at least 97 people and isolated ...  

Nov. 30 - Thousands flock to a lagoon in Rio de Janeiro to watch the world's largest floating Christmas tree light up.  

Latin America has the highest homicide rate for young adults in the world, with the Caribbean a close second, a global study by a Brazilian research group shows.  

Hungry flood survivors looted supermarkets and emergency crews tried to get aid to nearly 80,000 people driven from their homes Wednesday, as rain-spawned mudslides and overflowing rivers killed at least 97 people and isolated cities in southern Brazil.Amid mounting misery in the disaster zone...  

The number of deaths attributed to floods in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina rose Tuesday to 84, the state news agency reported.  

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Rio de Janeiro - The number of people killed in accidents linked to heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina rose to 65 Tuesday, while close to 50,000 people had to be evacuated from their ...  

Flood victims waded through waist-deep water into mud-filled houses Thursday in a devastated part of southern Brazil where neighbors set up patrols to keep looters away and lined up by the thousands for ...  

BRASILIA: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hopes to make inroads into Brazil's emerging oil and defense industries on a visit this week but he is unlikely to win a major breakthrough.  

Behind-the-scenes with Crittercam A A Nov. 24: Watch more footage of the making of "Crittercam," a project from National Geographic.  

At least 33 people have been killed in floods in southern Brazil after days of torrential rain that set off mudslides and forced 20,000 from their homes, emergency workers said on Monday.  

SAO PAULO, Brazil : Police say two gunmen have killed an Italian businessman in front of his factory in southeastern Brazil.  

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 22 : Brazil has recalled its envoy to Ecuador over a financial dispute and threatened to review its diplomatic relations with the Latin American neighbour, EFE reported Saturday.  

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A Brazilian senator is proposing tax incentives to encourage the return billions of dollars sent that were shipped abroad.  

BRAZIL and Indonesia are to sign a strategic partnership at the start of a three-day visit by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday, Brazil's foreign ministry said.  

A police investigation found that 10 government and airline officials were to blame for Brazil's worst air disaster, saying they failed to properly train pilots, implement rainy day procedures or fully repair ...  

Wednesday, 10.45am - CHILDREN at St. Sebastain's Primary School in Great Gonerby raised almost A 500 to help people with leprosy.  

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer will lead the U.S. delegation to an International Conference on Biofuels in Sao Paulo, Brazil from Nov.  

The Brazilian Federal Police on Tuesday arrested 13 people, including the mayor of a small town, in two anti-fraud operations in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the police said.  

Nov. 19 - A daring Brazilian surfer broke his own record after riding a wave on an extra-long 30-foot surfboard for over ten seconds.  

The Brazilian government will begin using a plane equipped with body-heat sensors to locate - and protect - uncontacted Indian tribes in the Amazon, officials said Tuesday.  

Lawrence Scott Ward, 66, induced the 16-year-old to engage in sexual activity with him in Brazil and then made and mailed images of that activity to his University of Pennsylvania office, federal authorities ...  

SAO PAULO, Brazil , November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - Solution Auto-Detects Fraudulent Messages, Increasing Users' Security Acision, the world's leading messaging company, announces that Digitel GSM, Venezuela's ...  

Long believed to be a disease of biblical times, leprosy, also known as Hansen's Disease, continues to be seen in the United States, a newly-released report available here on Monday shows.  

This place used to be the middle of nowhere. Then Brazilians desperate to escape poverty settled the region beginning in the late 1970s.  

Report says govt failure factor in Brazil crash Comments RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil's deadliest plane crash that killed 199 people was partly caused by government failure to set rainy-day landing rules for ...  

Brazil 's most industrialized state lost 10,000 jobs in October as the global financial crisis shook Latin America 's largest economy out of an extended boom.  

Pregnant women who did water aerobics had easier deliveries and asked for less pain-killing medicine than women who didn't, a Brazilian study said Thursday.  

A 15-year-old boy in Brazil recovered from a normally deadly rabies infection, becoming one of a handful of survivors of the virus worldwide and the first in the country, the health ministry said on Friday.  

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 13, 2008 -- The Brazilian police said on Thursday that three youngsters who raped a 15-year-old girl, recorded the crime and put the video on the Internet were arrested in Joacaba in ...  

Anthony Smith and Heather Ludwig Smith, Brazil, would like to announce the birth of their daughter, Amy Nichole Smith.  

Federal troops are to be deployed in a remote Amazon town after hundreds of protesters, angry at the government's crackdown on deforestation, ransacked the local offices of Brazil's environmental protection ...  

In this photo released by Argosfoto, thhe Group of 20 nations finance ministers, central bank presidents, and World bank President Robert Zoellick, back row left, pose for a photo in Sao Paulo, Brazil, ...  

Presenter: Jeffrey Pindelski This webcast will enable you to learn essential rapid intervention rope rescue concepts that can also be applied daily fireground survival.  

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil : Brazilian mining company MMX says it is cutting iron ore production by 30 percent due to falling global demand.  

A 67-YEAR-OLD widow was hit in the head by her husband's coffin and died yesterday morning in southern Brazil.  

SAO PAULO, Brazil a ' Big emerging nations should be allowed to join the powerful Group of Seven forum that has a large say in global economic policy, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said on Monday.  

Top finance officials of the Group of 20 nations have agreed that tax cuts and increased government spending are necessary to avoid a recession, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Sunday.  

Flooding and landslides are now blamed for 45 deaths in southern Brazil. A local governor says 14 people are still missing, and it's feared the death toll will climb above 50.  

Rescue workers found dozens of bodies Tuesday as they dug desperately through the wreckage of homes engulfed by mudslides in southern Brazil, boosting the death toll from rain-spawned hillside collapses and ...  

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega attend the opening of the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Sao Paulo, Saturday, Nov.  

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 8 : Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday that US president-elect Barack Obama could lose the political capital he has gained if the financial crisis extends for another ...  

A Brazilian woman has been killed by her husbanda s coffin on the way to his funeral, police say.  

Russia wants to double trade with Brazil 1/9 Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, center, and Sergio Gabrielli, president of Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Petrobras, left, walk after a meeting in Rio de Janeiro, ...  

Rescue workers rushed to help stranded residents in southern Brazil on Monday after landslides and floods caused by heavy rain killed at least 50 people and forced more than 23,000 from their homes.  

They're calling themselves the "BRIC" nations: Brazil, Russia, India and China. And they want a greater say in restructuring the global financial system.  

Brazilian thrashers SEPULTURA will release their new album, "A-Lex" , via SPV Records on the following dates: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Brazil: January 23 UK, Scandinavia, rest of Europe: January 26 USA, ...  

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Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience ; Conferences Article Date: 10 Nov 2008 - 1:00 PST Long believed to be a disease of biblical times, leprosy, ...  

Brazil's Roman Catholic Church says it won't recognize more than 400 marriages performed over the past 20 years by a defrocked priest.  

RIO DE JANEIRO: Petrobras has completed drilling two new wells in the pre-salt layer off the coast of Espirito Santo and proved a discovery of light oil in the area known as Parque das Baleias.  

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 17 - This is a good time for all those who resisted the "neoliberal" free market economic model of the past few decades, often as lone voices preaching in the wilderness.