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Navy lifts sunken sub
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| Jan.18 |
Australia |
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Kuerten falls
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Vasco is Brazil champion
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| Jan.28 |
Sao Paulo |
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47 inmates escape
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| Feb.18 |
Sao Paulo |
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8 dead in prison riots
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| Feb.27 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Carnival sambas to an end Glittering costumes, massive floats and tanned, naked bodies
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| Mar.15 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Blasts at oil rig kill 10 3 blasts rocked the world's biggest offshore oil platform, owned by state oil giant Petrobras, possibly killing 10 people
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| Mar.17 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Rush to save slowly sinking oil rig State oil giant stepped up efforts to prevent environmental damage after blasts killed 10 workers
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| Mar.20 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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World's biggest oil rig sinks| The explosion knocked out a supporting pillar, and the platform tilted and sank in just a few minutes | |
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| Mar.21 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Oil from sunken rig contained Platform's owners said the spill was being contained. Only one body has been recovered
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 Foot and mouth prevention efforts Agriculture Ministry has strengthened vigilance at the borders after reports of foot-and-mouth disease in Argentina
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| Mar.28 |
Ecuador |
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Ecuador upsets Brazil 1-0
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| Apr.1 |
Sao Paulo |
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Coulthard won Grand Prix
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| Apr.15 |
Sao Paulo |
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Prison rebellion ends Inmates killed the leaders of the uprising and released 150 hostages. Prisoners wanted to end a 65-hour rebellion
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| May.5 |
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Train robber Biggs heads home Ronnie Biggs has 28 years to serve of a 30-year sentence for 1963 Great Train robbery
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| May.27 |
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Top drug lord telling all Luiz Fernando da Costa has named politicians, businessmen and police officers as having links to the drug traffick
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| Jun.1 |
France |
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Kuerten challenged
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| Jun.3 |
France |
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Kuerten won over Russell
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| Jun.8 |
France |
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Kuerten crushes Ferrero
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| Jun.10 |
 Paris |
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Kuerten won French Open Kuerten beat Corretja 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-2, 6-0. Kuerten won his third French Open title
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| Jun.23 |
Sao Paulo |
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Jail rebellion ends peacefully Order restored where an uprising left 2 inmates dead and the release of 9 hostages
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| Jul.23 |
 Honduras |
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Honduras win over Brazil 2-0 Honduras advances in Copa America. Hondurans' first win ever over Brazil. Colombia 3, Peru 0
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| Aug.3 |
 Argentina |
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 IMF to accelerate $1.2 billion loan| $1.2 billion loan for Argentina and $15 billion line of emergency credit for Brazil | |
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| Aug.6 |
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Novelist Jorge Amado dies| He was 88. Wrote 'Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands' and 'Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon' | |
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| Aug.15 |
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Brazil outlasted Paraguay 2-0
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| Aug.17 |
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U.S. Solo Balloonist Lands| Millionaire Steve Fossett set balloon down ending his 5th round-the-world attempt | |
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| Aug.22 |
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To break patent for AIDS drug Government decided to make the drug nelfinavir despite the patent held by the pharmaceutical giant Roche
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| Sep.20 |
Italy |
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Ronaldo is back
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| Nov.7 |
Bolivia |
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Brazil beaten by Bolivia 3-1
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| Nov.10 |
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Sentenced for burning Indian chief 4 young men get 14 years each after they set an Indian chief on fire as he lay on a bench
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| Nov.14 |
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 Brazil beats Venezuela and qualify Luizao scored a pair of goals and Rivaldo added one in Brazil final World Cup qualifier
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| Dec.6 |
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  Pirates kill America's Cup skipper| New Zealander Peter Blake, 53, has been shot dead in an attack by masked gunmen on boat as it lay anchored | |
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| Dec.7 |
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7 held over sailor's death Police are still searching for an 8th suspect, who had piloted the bandits to Blake's ship
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| Dec.8 |
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Police hunt suspects in Blake killing 20-year-old Rubens da Silva Souza ferried the gang to Blake's yacht. Another is Jose Pantoja da Costa
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| Dec.9 |
Northern Italy |
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Ronaldo scores first goal in 2 years
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 Last fugitives in Blake death arrested Police arrested the last 2 suspects in the killing of New Zealand yachtsman
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| Dec.25 |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Rains kill 45, 48 still missing 2,000 driven from their homes
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