Brazil Ready to Implement Shoot-Down Law
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Beginning Sunday, Brazil's air force will be allowed to shoot down small planes suspected of carrying drugs under a law meant to stem the flow of cocaine pouring into the country at clandestine landing strips in the vast Amazon rainforest.
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BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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Beginning Sunday, Brazil's air force may shoot down small planes suspected of carrying drugs under a law meant to stem the flow of cocaine pouring into the country at clandestine landing strips in the vast Amazon rainforest.
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Brazil will build a wall on a small portion of its border with Paraguay in an effort to combat contraband and smuggling, the government's official news agency said Tuesday.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Brazil will budget about $540 million over eight years to complete its nuclear program, including uranium enrichment and possibly building a nuclear-powered submarine.
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A decision by Brazil to raise its budget surplus target shows the government had &quot;solid control&quot; of the country&#39;s economic needs, an International Monetary Fund official said on Thursday.
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Brazil is cracking down on the drug gangs, prompting many a shootout in the poorer districts, known as favelas. The Guardian spent a day with a Rio photographer who risks his life almost daily to cover the battle
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Brazil has agreed in principle to let the U.N. atomic watchdog agency see parts of equipment to enrich uranium, diplomats said Wednesday. Such a deal would resolve months of dispute over access to the technology that can be used to build nuclear weapons.
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Brazil publishes an official list of atrocities allegedly committed during two decades of military rule.
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Brazilian was shot by anti-terror police because he became "aggressive and threatening" when challenged, Met lawyer says.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - More than 150 Brazilians were   murdered each day last year on average, putting Brazil on a par   with some war zones in terms of its homicide rate, the Justice   Ministry said on Monday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Days before Gov. Sergio Cabral took his oath of office this year, drug gangs in this city set fire to public buses and opened fire on police stations in what Brazil's president called the "most violent terrorist act I have ever seen in this country."
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered the development of new anti-terror legislation, just days after one of the government&#39;s top prosecutors was killed by a car bomb.
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The U.S. believes it can exploit Brazil's penchant for defensive breakdowns, lack of organization and habit of losing its composure when the two face off with a trip to the Women's World Cup finals at stake Thursday.
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A Brazilian soldier with the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturday when peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdown on armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
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The jumbo-screen specialist hopes to regain its footing with a new deal in Brazil.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status.