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• United Airlines plane from Brazil forced to return
SAO PAULO, Brazil - United Airlines says a hydraulic flaw in one of its engines forced its Chicago-bound Boeing 767 to turn back shortly after taking off from Sao Paulo's International Airport late Tuesday night. Airline press officer Marcelo Lins ...
• Man on trial in killing of Mormon-devoted wife
Jeremias Bins appears for a hearing in Framingham District Court, in Framingham, Mass. in 2006. Bins, a 32-year-old native of Brazil is on trial for allegedly beating his wife and 11-year-old stepson to death after becoming frustrated with her ...
• Doubt, anger over dams on Amazon tributary
PORTO VELHO, Brazil - It is quiet here on the wrong side of progress. Hot wind blows dust across the dry bluffs. The brown river runs wide and placid. In his painted wooden skiff, Francisco Evangelista de Abreu, a fisherman, motors up-current. Two ...
• U.S. influence wanes in Latin America
We did our homework — and they didn't, they who've been telling us for three decades what to do," the man who presides over Latin America's largest economy, President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva of Brazil, complained bitterly. Latin America's more ...
• Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
BRASILIA, Brazil - The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class ...