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    August 31, 2016
    FILE PHOTO - Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff attends the final session of debate and voting on Rousseff's impeachment trial in Brasilia, Brazil, August 29, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo
    Rousseff ousted in historic Brazil impeachment trial
    Dilma Rousseff became the second president to be impeached in Brazil's 31-year-old democracy, paving the way for a fundamental shift in economic...
    News/nationAugust 31, 2016 - 1:40pm
    August 18, 2016
    A vehicle carrying U.S. swimmers Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz stands in front of a police station before driving away, the morning after they were stopped from boarding a flight to the United States, in Rio de Janeiro, August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
    Olympian Ryan Lochte fabricated robbery story, Brazilian officials say
    LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - New reports from Brazilian officials indicate that Ryan Lochtemade up a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio....
    News/nationAugust 18, 2016 - 12:32pm
    July 28, 2016
    One athlete relays the Olympic torch to another in the streets of Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, ten days before the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, July 26, 2016. REUTERS/Roosevelt Cassio
    Protesters in Brazil halt Olympic torch relay and extinguish its flame
    Protests have continued to roil the lead-up to the 2016 Summer Olympics, with the opening ceremony just over a week away. On Wednesday night,...
    News/nationJuly 28, 2016 - 1:34pm
    February 8, 2016
    U.S. athletes told consider not attending Olympics if they fear Zika
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States Olympic Committee told U.S. sports federations that athletes and staff concerned for their health over the Zika virus should consider not going to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in August. The message was delivered in a conference call involving...
    News/nationFebruary 8, 2016 - 1:12pm
    April 16, 2015
    Silver coins worth $50 million recovered from WW2 wreck at record depth
    Marine salvage experts have recovered $50 million in silver coins from a ship sunk by a German submarine in 1942 as it was transporting the cash from India to London to help finance Britain's efforts in World War Two. Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search, the firm in charge of the...
    News/nationApril 16, 2015 - 11:52am
    February 14, 2013
    Brazilian ethanol prices sign that millers may favor biofuel
    LONDON -- Brazilian ethanol prices trading above raw sugar futures for the first time in almost two years are spurring speculation that millers will favor making the biofuel over the sweetener in the season starting in April. Hydrous ethanol, used in flex fuel cars in Latin America's...
    NewsFebruary 14, 2013 - 3:17pm
    February 1, 2013
    Ethanol helping Brazilian sugar makers
    SAO PAULO -- Raizen, Royal Dutch Shell Plc's sugar venture with Cosan Industria & Comercio, is among producers set to profit from funneling more of a record cane crop into ethanol as a government measure bolsters demand. Mills in the Center South, the world's largest sugar producing...
    February 1, 2013 - 12:23am
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