Brazil to provide incentives for food production
Rio de Janeiro - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is preparing a broad package to incentivize food production and to combat the increase in the price of foodstuffs, the Brazilian Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday. According to Agricult...
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BACKGROUND: Countries bidding for UNESCO sites
Montreal - The annual scramble for world heritage status opens Wednesday in Quebec City, where 41 countries are seeking UNESCO designation for cultural or natural sites. In the Middle East, applicants include Yemen for its Socotra Archipelago; Saudi ...
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Swastikas painted on Che Guevara statue in Argentina
Buenos Aires - Swastikas have been painted onto the statue of the late Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara that was unveiled just two weeks ago in the Argentine city of Rosario on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The local Commission...
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Armed gang kills four in Mexican village
Mexico City - An armed gang killed four people and set fire to homes in the village of El Pozo, in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, the public prosecutor's office said Thursday. The gang shot indiscriminately around the village late Wednesd...
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Gangs traffic some 500,000 foreigners a year across Mexico
Mexico City - An estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants from South America, the Caribbean and Central America pay Mexican gangs to help them transit Mexico and cross into the United States every year, Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said Wedn...
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