Brazil's Lula sacks campaign boss
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Brazil's President Lula sacks his re-election campaign manager amid ongoing allegations of dirty tricks.
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Carlos Alberto Parreira quit as coach of Brazil on Wednesday, three weeks after his team was eliminated by France in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes announces the government's resignation.
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Battered by a string of  political scandals, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da  Silva squandered what seemed to be a sure first-round election  victory and now must face a run-off vote against an energized  opposition candidate.
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Luxemburgo, who coached the Brazil national team between 1998 and 2000 and led them to success at the 1999 Copa America, takes over from Mariano Garcia Remon, who has been relieved of his first team duties after just three months in charge.
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By Tiago Pariz and Carmen Munari BRASILIA, Brazil  - A leading centrist party isthreatening to leave Brazil's governing coalition next week ina move that could jeopardize the president's reforms inCongress and pressure him to give it more Cabinet posts.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has come in for scathing criticism over his handling of Brazil's worst air crash after a close advisor was filmed apparently celebrating reports suggesting it was caused by a mechanical error and not government negligence.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da   Silva's commanding lead over his main rival in Brazil's   presidential race expanded slightly over the past week, a poll   showed on Tuesday.
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An electoral court fined President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva $18,000 for using a public works project to promote a mayoral candidate from his party.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's biggest party voted  to leave the governing coalition on Sunday in a move that could  complicate President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's reform agenda  and pressure him to give the centrist party more Cabinet posts.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Stacks of dirty money nabbed in a botched smear campaign covered Brazil's front pages on Saturday as polls showed for the first time that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva could be forced to a second round run-off.
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GENEVA The former president of Costa Rica, JosÃ© MarÃ­a Figueres, has resigned as director-general of the World Economic Forum, amid allegations implicating him in a Costa Rican corruption scandal involving Alcatel of France, the Forum said Friday.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - With his once-comfortable   lead narrowing, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva   geared up on Thursday for a final campaign push to secure an   outright victory in this weekend's election.
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Though it isn&#39;t certain, it appeared Wednesday a major party member of Brazil&#39;s ruling alliance would leave to pursue 2006 presidential aspirations.
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Former Sao Paulo Gov. Geraldo Alckmin forced a presidential runoff election by capitalizing on Brazilians' anger over scandals that reached ever-closer to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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By Tiago Pariz BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's biggest party votedto leave the governing coalition on Sunday in a move that couldcomplicate President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's reform agendaand pressure him to give the centrist party more Cabinet posts.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must fight his main challenger in a run-off vote after many Brazilians turned against him in Sunday's presidential election and punished the former union leader for a string of corruption scandals.