Brazil News

Qatar Airways will launch its first flights to South America when it begins flying to Sao Paulo Guarulhos and Buenos Aires from Doha later this year.

Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega said Thursday that the 0.2-percent contraction in the country's GDP in 2009 was in fact a good result given the effects of the international financial crisis.

A Rio de Janeiro State Judge Thursday ordered Air France to pay $1.15 million in compensation to the family of a state official who died in the 2009 crash of an Air France passenger jet into the Atlantic.

Rio de Janeiro, March 12 Brazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras has said that it discovered oil at a block in eastern Colombia.

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite data was used to create a 3-D image of 90Q.

The Obama administration is seeking to defuse a crisis in trade ties with Brazil after the Latin American country unveiled a widely anticipated retaliatory tariff against a wide range of U.S. imports, including intellectual property.

The search for the black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris has been delayed by weather conditions and trouble getting a search ship to Brazil, officials said Thursday.

London-based oil major BP has agreed to buy Brazilian, Azeri and Gulf of Mexico assets from Devon Energy for $7 billion, as the U.S. producer refocuses on onshore U.S. fields.

CSN , Brazil's biggest diversified steelmaking group, plans an initial public offering for its massive Casa de Pedra iron ore mine by the end of June and plans IPOs for other units to better value the assets, Chairman Benjamin Steinbruch said on Tuesday.

Preliminary measurements from data gathered at four universities and several agencies showed the massive earthquake also shifted other parts of South America as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil.

HOW serious is the decision by Brazil's government, announced on Tuesday March 8th, to raise duties on a number of American-made imports? The increases are sizeable for goods such as cosmetics and many household wares .

They may have a better understanding of what we want to do, Bernardo Figueiredo, head of the National Land Transport Agency, known as ANTT, said in an interview from Brasilia.

President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva takes his seat for the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing, China.

Guns N' Roses will play three private shows in Brazil and Argentina during the band's current tour of South America, the organizer said on Monday.

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These preliminary measurements, produced from data gathered by researchers from four universities and several agencies, including geophysicists on the ground in Chile, paint a much clearer picture of the power behind this temblor, believed to be the fifth-most-powerful since instruments have been available to measure seismic shifts.

Brazil said Monday it would raise tariffs on 591 million dollars worth of US products in the latest twist in its showdown over US cotton subsidies it has blasted as unfair.

Drinking coffee cuts diabetes risk, new research confirms, but you may need to enjoy your java with lunch if you want to get any benefit.

Takeovers in Latin America are off to the best start in at least a decade, bucking a global slump, as economic recoveries in Brazil and Mexico spur consolidation in the telecommunications, food and commodities industries.

Augusto Farfus set the fastest lap on his home racetrack today as the 2010 WTCC season got underway.