Portugal feels empire striking back as Brazil trumps in official - CNEWS
As Brazil rises on the international stage and its one-time colonial master wanes, a proposed standardization of the Portuguese language would require hundreds of words to be
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Group exposes scary homicide rate in Brazil's deadliest city - 680 News
RECIFE, Brazil - Ines Maria da Silva stares blankly outside her shack as she describes how she lost all five of her sons to the violence that makes Recife the deadliest major city
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Gunfire forces Afghan president, Cdn ambassador to flee ceremony in - 680 News
KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Canadian ambassador Arif Lalani were among the dignitaries forced to take cover Sunday when automatic gunfire and rocket-propelled
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Pregnancy, stoner comedies a hit at box office - Saskatoon Star Phoenix
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A pair of new comedies aimed at distinctly different audiences took the top two spots at the weekend box office in North America, with Tina Fey's "Baby Mama
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Nazi-looted Dutch painting sells for more than $92,000 - CBC News
A boy, in profile, singing, in a feigned oval by Pieter de Grebber sold in London on Friday for $92,350. (Christie's/Associated Press) A painting that was lost in the Holocaust and
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Pierre Jamieson from Canada writes: Time to buy a horse? - Globe and Mail
Byron Rottweiler from Canada writes: A few months ago I made a bet with a futures broker where I predicted oil at the $200 mark in 5 years. Strange to see this CIBC prediction in
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Arctic is thawing faster than expected, report says - Globe and Mail
Theo Lichacz from Kawartha, Canada writes: Where's the science? Climatologist Martin Sommerkorn?? He is an "ecologist specialising on carbon-nutrient interactions with emphasis on
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Former Tory candidate 'angry' over spending scheme - Globe and Mail
Richard McGuire from Canada writes: Conservative House Leader Peter Van Loan keeps trying to spin this affair as though it's just a case of local candidates being told by big, bad
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