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AirTran Airways Boeing 737  Jamaica Observer  Wed 22 Dec 2010
AirTran Airways increasing service to Jamaica
| BUDGET carrier AirTran Airways is scheduled to add an additional flight to its non-stop schedule between Montego Bay and Baltimore, USA early next year. | According to JIS News, the state informatio... (photo: Creative Commons / Cubbie_n_Vegas)
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the summit of Latin American and Caribbean for Integration and Development, CALC, in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. The two-day summit is aimed at strengthening political and economic ties in the regi  The Star  Tue 21 Dec 2010
Brazil's Lula says he might seek office again
| SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he might eventually run for president again, a revelation that shakes up Brazilian politics and could weaken his chos... (photo: AP / Andre Penner)
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Hillary Clinton Breitbart Mon 20 Dec 2010
Clinton to attend Rousseff inauguration in Brazil
| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Brasilia on New Year's... | US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Brasilia on New Year's day to atte... (photo: Creative Commons / Flickr upload bot)
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Scarlett Johansson and some soldiers. Jamaica Observer Sat 18 Dec 2010
Lost in Jamaica: Scarlett Johansson heads on holiday to escape divorce drama
| A day after announcing the end of her two-year marriage to Ryan Reynolds, a tense-looking Scarlett Johansson was spotted in Jamaica on Thursday with a group of friends.... (photo: Public Domain / Cpl. Scott M. Biscuiti)
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A Fiat logo is seen on a car retailer's window in Milan, Italy, Thursday, May 7, 2009. Fiat Group CEO Sergio Marchionne will become the chief executive of Chrysler after the U.S. automaker emerges from bankruptcy, a Fiat spokesman confirmed Thursday. Marchionne, the 56-year-old dual Canadian and Italian citizen, has been tipped for the job since the Italian automaker reached a deal to take a 20-percent stake in the bankrupt Chrysler. U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has said Chrysler could comes out of a "surgical" bankruptcy in 30 to 60 days much more quickly than usual. Marchionne, meanwhile, also is in talks to take over General Motor's operations in Europe Germany's Opel, Britain's Vauxhall and Sweden's Saab, and Fiat confirmed that it is also interested in GM's Latin American operations. Deccan Herald Wed 15 Dec 2010
Fiat to build $1.7 bn car factory in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 15, (IANS/EFE): Wednesday, December 15, 2010 --> | Fiat SpA has announced that it plans to invest 3 billion reais ($1.7 billion) to build a second pla... (photo: AP / Luca Bruno)
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Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), participates in a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. The Christian Science Monitor Wed 8 Dec 2010
Latin America leader Brazil lags worldwide in OECD education rankings
São Paulo, Brazil | Brazil got B for effort but a D for results in the triennial education report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). ... (photo: AP / Alessandro Della Bella)
America   Education   Photos   Rankings   Wikipedia :OECD  
In this photo taken Sept. 15, 2009, a forest in the Amazon is seen being illegally burnt, near Novo Progresso, in the northern Brazilian state of Para. The Star Thu 2 Dec 2010
Brazil: Amazon deforestation lowest rate on record
| BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation in the Amazon forest fell to its lowest level on record, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday, marking what could be a watershe... (photo: AP / Andre Penner)
Brazil   Conservation   Global Warming   Photos   Wikipedia: Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest  
Madeira River.The state has a territory covered mostly by jungle of the Amazon Rain forest, but about three-fifths of the state has been deforested since intensive settlement and logging began in the 1970s, escalating even to this day. A majority of its citizens now live in urban areas. The Guardian Wed 1 Dec 2010
Brazil's logging at lowest for decades
| Deforestation hit peak in 2004 but has fallen thanks to government action and impact of global financial crisis A sawmill processes logs from the Amazon rainforest. Pho... (photo: Creative Commons / Wilson Dias/ABr)
Amazon Forest   Brazil   Deforestation   Photos   Wikipedia: Amazon Rainforest  


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In this July 28, 2010 satellite image provided by NASA, oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is visible on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Year in Review: Oil, secrets spilled; Earth shook; Tea started to boil Toledo Blade
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In this Sept. 11, 1996 file photo, former Venezuela's President Carlos Andres Perez gestures during an interview at his home in Caracas, Venezuela. Perez died on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, in Miami of a heart attack, his daughter Maria Francia Perez said. Venezuelan ex-president Carlos Andres Perez dies The Star
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Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff applaud during a meeting with catadores in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday Dec. 23, 2010. Catadores or cart pushers make their living recycling metal scraps, cardboard and plastic bottles. Brazil's Lula bids farewell at end of presidential term BBC News
First Lady Michelle Obama, Haitian First Lady Elisabeth Delatour Preval, and Dr. Jill Biden, receive flowers from children at 'The Children\'s Place' in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 13, 2010. The Children\'s Place, which was created by Elisabeth Delatour Preval, has Haitian artists work with children on art projects as part of a post-quake therapy program. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) 2010: World saw quake, financial meltdown, dramatic rescue from a ringside seat online Star Tribune
A woman waits for a bus as a soldier stands guard at a checkpoint in Coban, Guatemala, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010. The Guatemalan military declared a monthlong state of siege Sunday in Alta Verapaz in hopes of reclaiming cities that have been taken over by Mexico's brutal Zetas drug gang. Local leaders of the mountainous northern province, which has become a prime corridor for smuggling drugs from Honduras to Mexico, say they have been asking state and federal authorities to intervene for two years now. Guatemala launches siege to reclaim violent north The Boston Globe
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the summit of Latin American and Caribbean for Integration and Development, CALC, in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. The two-day summit is aimed at strengthening political and economic ties in the regi Brazil's Lula says he might seek office again The Star
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A Chinese woman works at her sewing machine at a garment factory in the suburbs of Beijing, Friday May 20, 2005. China will drastically raise export tariffs on 74 categories of textile products beginning June, the government said Friday, in an apparent effort to meet U.S. and European demands to stem the flood of cheap Chinese Emerging nations more upbeat on 2011 than G7: survey BBC News
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