Challenge to Brazil billboard ban
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A law banning billboards and hoardings in Brazil's biggest city is facing legal challenges from angry ad firms.
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Brazilian flags hang from pubs, posters in  Portuguese advertise the agricultural fair and the vibrant  green-and-yellow paintwork of the 'Real Brazil' food store  stands out in a drab row of shops.
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Drive around Houston or Dallas and  you&#39;re bound to see the strategically placed billboard: &quot;They  Can&#39;t Deport Us All,&quot; it says, over a caricature of a man  jumping a fence.
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A supermarket challenges a ban on advertising its whole-fat milk during children's television shows.
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The iconic tree that gave Brazil its name and the world's violinists their bows got extra protection Thursday to prevent it from sliding toward extinction. But the conference that overwhelmingly supported protecting brazilwood, or pau brasil in Portuguese, rejected similar moves for three other South American tropical trees.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. BEIJING, China -- China has imposed a nationwide ban on a &quot;blasphemous&quot; Nike television commercial -- featuring
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By Leonardo Pedro BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb deathsquads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leaderand two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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Brazilian flags hang from pubs, posters in   Portuguese advertise the agricultural fair and the vibrant   green-and-yellow paintwork of the 'Real Brazil' food store   stands out in a drab row of shops.
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A group of leading international obesity experts has called for a global ban on advertising junk food to children as part of a worldwide fight against fat.
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Friends of the Earth says it will start a legal challenge over the sale of GM-contaminated rice in UK stores.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's president often gets  criticized by his old leftist friends for being conservative at  home. But globally he has reshaped the debate on intellectual  property rights to reflect the needs of poor nations.
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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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SAO PAULO -- As President Bush was flying to Brazil yesterday, thousands of protesters shouting, "Out Bush!" marched down this city's main drag, Avenida Paulista.
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Â· Government launches alcohol abuse strategyÂ· Critics call for happy hours and promotions ban
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Brazilian organizers of the Rio de Janeiro leg of the Live Earth global concerts were trying to convince authorities on Wednesday not to cancel the Saturday show due to security concerns.
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Brazil this week imposed a ban on popular role-playing computer games "Counter-Strike" and "EverQuest," claiming they incited violence and were "harmful to consumers' health."
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HAVANA -- Retaliating against the US diplomatic mission's Christmas display supporting Cuban dissidents, the Cuban government put up a billboard yesterday emblazoned with photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika overlaid with a "Made in the USA" stamp.