Brazil Says Will Open 'Dirty War' Archives
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By Andrew Hay RIO CUEIRAS, Brazil  - Brazil's center-leftgovernment will unseal archives of the country's 1964-85military dictatorship in an effort to resolve a painful chapterin the nation's recent history, the justice minister said onTuesday.
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Brazil will send additional peacekeepers to help restore order in Haiti and boost the 4,000- force to 5,500, a top government official said at a summit of Latin American leaders.
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WASHINGTON  - Washington is likely to help Brazilin its plan to shoot down planes suspected of smuggling drugsafter determining it has enough safeguards to preventaccidental killings, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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The jumbo-screen specialist hopes to regain its footing with a new deal in Brazil.
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BERLIN (Deutsche Welle) - The last remaining hurdle to the opening up a massive Holocaust archive held in Germany has been cleared after Greece voted to change an international treaty. The Greek parliament voted unanimously to make the information contained in the Bad Arolsen archive public. Greece is the last of the archive's 11 governing countries to approve amending the treaty governing the Nazi-era documents. France voted in favor of the changes last week, and the U.S., Israel, Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany and Italy agreed to the amendments earlier this year.  Much of the digital information kept in the archive has already been transferred to national Holocaust repositories in countries such as the U.S. and Israel, but previously this information was only available to Holocaust survivors and their families. The digital transfers should be completed by the end of 2007, officials said. Eventually, the information will also be made available to the public via the Internet. The archives, which is overseen by the International Tracing Service (ITS) - an arm of the Red Cross - consist of up to 100 million digital pages of information. This is divided into separate collections covering detention records, forced and slave labor, and displaced persons as well as an index containing around 17 million names.
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The government of one of Brazil's Amazonian states plans to reforest areas of land cleared for pasture.
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Brazil launched an emergency plan on Friday to save what remains of its vast tropical savanna, much of which has been cleared for farming in recent decades.
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Brazil's president promised a thorough investigation Friday into a plane crash that killed 191 people and announced measures to improve air safety, including building a new airport in Sao Paulo.
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Poor Brazilians who were dragooned into harvesting rubber during World War II are seeking recognition and compensation.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazil's uraniumenrichment plant in Resende will start working before the endof the year after getting a go-ahead from the United Nations'nuclear watchdog, the country's Science and Technology Ministersaid on Wednesday.
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Brazil has tentatively agreed to let the U.N. atomic watchdog agency view parts of its equipment to enrich uranium - a deal that would end squabbling over access to technology that can be used to build nuclear weapons, diplomats said Wednesday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday night that he expected Brazil would resolve a dispute with the International Atomic Energy Agency over access to a nuclear fuel factory.
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The Brazilian government is facing criticism from Latin American countries for its failure to abandon the production of cluster bombs.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil has reached an accord  with the U.N. nuclear watchdog to allow inspections of its  uranium enrichment plant, the country's ministry of science and  technology said on Wednesday.
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Amnesty International warns of an imminent gang war in two Rio slums unless police in the Brazilian city act.
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The most infamous political prison from Argentina's 1976-1983 dirty war opens to the public next month as a human rights memorial, one of the first of its kind in Latin America.
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Brazilian officials expressed optimism Wednesday that they would reach agreement with United Nations inspectors over the country's contested plans to enrich uranium.