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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Rio de Janeiro News.Net http://www.riodejaneironews.net/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:44:11 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:44:11 -0500 30 State-controlled energy giant Petrobras announced the discovery of an oil and natural gas accumulation in the Solimoes basin of Brazil's Amazon region. http://www.riodejaneironews.net/story/203245909 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:07 -0500 IANS http://www.riodejaneironews.net/story/203245909 The Brazilian city of Salvador registered a total of 29 homicides over a 30-hour span, amid a crime wave caused by a police strike, officials said. http://www.riodejaneironews.net/story/203245906 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:03 -0500 IANS http://www.riodejaneironews.net/story/203245906 Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has expressed anger over what his family has had to endure following the racial abuse allegedly suffered by his brother Anton Ferdinand at the hands of John Te http://www.riodejaneironews.net/story/203244629 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:40:19 -0500 ANI http://www.riodejaneironews.net/story/203244629 Joseph S. Blatter visited South America in order to take part in meetings at CONMEBOL’s Extraordinary Congress in the Paraguayan capital Asuncion. Blatter, who was accompanied on the trip by ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203259247&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:07:39 -0500 FIFA http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203259247&cat=24437442923341f1 SAO PAULO (AP)—Palmeiras rallied with two late goals to spoil Neymar’s 20th birthday celebrations and 100th career goal on Sunday in the Sao Paulo state championship. In the Rio de ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203259368&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:48:32 -0500 General Sources http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203259368&cat=24437442923341f1 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said Sunday, although they added that the situation ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203257416&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:44:15 -0500 Richmond Times-Dispatch http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203257416&cat=24437442923341f1 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian media report 78 people have been murdered in and around the northeastern city of Salvador since the start of a state police strike there five days ago.The local ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203257521&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:42:57 -0500 WHP CBS 21 http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203257521&cat=24437442923341f1 Army soldiers patrol Salvador, northeast Brazil, where the murder rate has climbed 129 per cent since a third of the state's police force went on ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203257515&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:11:49 -0500 CBC News http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203257515&cat=24437442923341f1 Sunday, February 5, 2012. 7.30 am. A side road in a residential area of a city of Bahia state, in northeastern Brazil. "I am gonna kill you viado (queer)," shouts a poor guy in front of my ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203257847&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:57:25 -0500 Brazzil Magazine http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203257847&cat=24437442923341f1 BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazilian security forces took control of Bahia on Sunday, patrolling key intersections in the state capital Salvador after a police strike led to a major spike in murders and ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203255662&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:30:03 -0500 West Australian http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203255662&cat=24437442923341f1 International matches in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this month will prepare the SA women's football team for the Cyprus Women's Cup, according to Banyana Banyana coach Joseph ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203254474&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:22:06 -0500 IOL http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203254474&cat=24437442923341f1 Seven oil companies have notified the Brazilian Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) that they have already discovered signs of hydrocarbon resources so far this year. Among ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203254145&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:06:26 -0500 Nasdaq http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203254145&cat=24437442923341f1 La Paz, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) The torrential rains in Bolivia have affected in recent days about 6,000 families, especially in the departments of La Paz, Oruro, Chuquisaca, Cochabamba and Potosi, ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203252016&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:34:45 -0500 Prensa Latina http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203252016&cat=24437442923341f1 Reporting from Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil— Two children ran through the rubble, ducking under smoke pouring from a building that was still burning. Everywhere were signs that people had ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203250653&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:34:16 -0500 General Sources http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203250653&cat=24437442923341f1 Brazil has been the focus of many investors over the past few years, and 2012 could prove to be even bigger for the growth of the economy. Attention will be focused on Brazil, as it is the host ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203249699&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:42:11 -0500 General Sources http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203249699&cat=24437442923341f1 The murder rate in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia has soared during a state police strike that on Saturday entered its fourth day. The state’s Public Safety Department says on its ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203247908&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:48:42 -0500 Merco Press http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203247908&cat=24437442923341f1 Brasilia - Just two weeks ago, Brazil's cities minister saw himself as 'more solid than the pyramids of Egypt,' but allegations continued to fly in the media and Mario Negromonte has ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203246342&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:02:11 -0500 M & C http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203246342&cat=24437442923341f1 Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petrobras announced last week it had struck good-quality light oil in the Solimoes Basin, in the state of ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203246344&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:56:45 -0500 Merco Press http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203246344&cat=24437442923341f1 Brazil’s aircraft manufacturer Embraer has delivered a Legacy 650 to celebrity Jackie Chan for the Chinese market. The aircraft is painted with a dragon ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203246343&cat=24437442923341f1 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:56:45 -0500 Merco Press http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203246343&cat=24437442923341f1 Ilhus, in the South of Bahia state, Brazil is a ghost city. It never was that busy at night, but now nobody is in the streets. The hot weather and the dust are the only things around. Itabuna is the ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203243811&cat=24437442923341f1 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:23:29 -0500 Brazzil Magazine http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203243811&cat=24437442923341f1 Two prominent faces of Latin American Socialism: Daniel Ortega and Hugo ChavezBy Olivia KrothSources: Blog Hugo Chavez, Correo del OrinocoAt Daniel Ortega's inauguration ceremony on Tuesday, ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203242239&cat=24437442923341f1 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:57:29 -0500 Pravda http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203242239&cat=24437442923341f1 RIO DE JANEIRO — Tall and tan and young and chunky? The Girl From Ipanema has put on a few pounds, and for many sunbathers on Brazil's beaches, the country's iconic itsy-bitsy, ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203239017&cat=24437442923341f1 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:12:22 -0500 The Seattle Times http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203239017&cat=24437442923341f1 RIO DE JANEIRO – Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos' devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn't watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in ... http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203236990&cat=24437442923341f1 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:55:10 -0500 Fox News http://feeds.riodejaneironews.net/?rid=203236990&cat=24437442923341f1