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Brazil has confirmed 557 deaths caused by H1N1 flu, the highest total in the world, the nation’s Health Ministry says. The United States has counted 522 fatalities through Thursday, and nearly 1,800 people had died worldwide through August 13, U.S. and global health officials said
President Richard M. Nixon and his Brazilian counterpart, Emilio Medici, in 1971 discussed ways their countries could work together to overthrow the socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile, according to a newly declassified document. During a meeting of the two leaders at the White House on December 9 of that year, Medici was discussing the possibility of a coup by the Chilean military with assistance from Brazilian military officers when Nixon said that it was “very important that Brazil and the United States work closely in this field,” according to the document
An independent commission will start investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in July, the United Nations has announced. Bhutto, 54, was heading the opposition to then-President Pervez Musharraf when she was killed at a December campaign rally in Rawalpindi ahead of parliamentary elections.
Four-time defending champion Rafael Nadal slid to an astonishing 6-2 6-7 6-4 7-6 defeat to Sweden’s Robin Soderling at the French Open on Sunday. Soderling, the 23rd seed, was a rank outsider against the world number one who had never lost a match on the clay at Roland Garros and was a short-priced favorite to win a record fifth straight title
Let’s just say it. The whole thing sounds insane. For six days, people from across the world — accountants, school teachers, farmers, CEOs — will run 150 miles, the equivalent of five consecutive marathons, across one of southern Africa’s most remote landscapes.
Journalist-turned-Croatian independence fighter Eduardo Rosza-Flores was asked in an interview a few years ago with the Hungarian edition of Elle Magazine if he would ever assassinate someone for a cause. “Only if [that person] comes to kill others,” said Rozsa, according to an English version of the transcript posted on one of his blogs
European leaders have agreed to make $100 billion available to the International Monetary Fund and ?50 billion ($68 billion) to eastern European countries, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday. The lending means Europe has “laid the foundations” for the G-20 summit in London in two weeks, Brown told a news conference in Brussels after a European Council summit
It is an unwritten rule of all World Cups: if the host nation fails on the pitch, interest in the competition dies off the pitch. As the 500 day countdown to the 2010 World Cup begins, most commentators have focused on South Africa’s preparedness, with the country’s vast unfinished stadiums causing concern in some quarters. But far more worrying for the country’s fans is the state of the national football team