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The Embassy Cables: French support for Brazil high
Dec. 15, 2010 1 Comment
PARIS — A 2009 memo from the US Embassy in Paris to the Secretary of State’s office released in the latest batch of Wikileaks documents, details French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s efforts to cultivate the rapport between Brazil and France by providing political, diplomatic, economic and military support to South America’s largest country. Wikileaks cable 09Paris1526, [...]
The Embassy Cables: Brazil drug problems aren’t new
Dec. 7, 2010 2 Comments
A small civil war broke out briefly in Brazil in November, as the government tried to clamp down on Rio de Janeiro’s massive drug and gang problem. Boston.com’s Big Picture blog captured the scene wonderfully. But as a December 2005 cable posted Tuesday by Wikileaks reveals, the problem is nothing new. On November 30, 2005, [...]
Spotted “Breaking Dawn” shooting in Brazil
Dec. 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
As we previously reported, the honeymoon scene of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson shooting “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” in Brazil were leaked last week and got removed but EW.com got the pictures of them. It is kind of hard to tell if the pictures from the honeymoon scene but we hope you will enjoy them!
Secret and not-so-secret Guns N’ Roses shows
March 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
They’re all over South America
Tiny dress, huge controvesy in Brazil
Nov. 11, 2009 Leave a Comment
Whether it’s fair or not, Brazil is best known for beautiful women, skimpy bikinis, the wildness of Carnaval, and the Brazillian wax. But despite the sexy generalizations, the entire country has erupted in debate over a little red dress. CNN reported Geisy Arruda, a 20-year-old student at the Bandeirante University (also known as Uniban), was [...]
Air France 447 wreckage found as search for missing plane continues
June 2, 2009 1 Comment
A BBC corespondent and several experts are reporting that the plane would have had to have undergone several “traumas” to have fallen from the sky. The absence of a distress signal from the experienced pilot suggests that whatever happened to the plane happened very, very quickly.
Air France flight vanishes over Atlantic with 228 people on board
June 1, 2009 Leave a Comment
An Air France plane carrying 228 people vanished over the Atlantic Ocean after reporting a short circuit caused by a possible lightning strike, the BBC reports.
