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Deforestation Reveals
Signs of 'El Dorado'

lost city of gold found?

Jan 6, 2010 7:05 AM CST

Deforestation Reveals Signs of 'El Dorado'

Team spots evidence of massive Amazon civilization

(Newser) - The legends of lost cities that drew Spanish explorers to their doom seeking "El Dorado" in the Amazon may have been rooted in truth after all. Deforestation in Brazil and northern Bolivia has revealed signs, including roads and massive earthworks, of an Amazon civilization much bigger than anything previously...

Ethics Panel Blasts NBC's 'Checkbook Journalism'

Dec 29, 2009 6:49 PM CST

Ethics Panel Blasts NBC's 'Checkbook Journalism'

Journalist group objects to network flying the Goldmans home

(Newser) - The Society of Professional Journalists has condemned NBC News for practicing "checkbook journalism" by chartering a jet to bring home from Brazil a US man and his son involved in a bitter custody battle. David Goldman granted an interview to Meredith Vieira of NBC's Today show that aired yesterday....

David and Sean
Goldman,
Reunited,
Visit Orlando

Dec 24, 2009 5:41 PM CST

David and Sean Goldman, Reunited, Visit Orlando

After 5-year custody battle, NJ dad detours on return home from Brazil

(Newser) - David Goldman, who was reunited with his son today in Brazil after a 5-year custody battle, has returned to the US with the boy—but to Orlando rather than their home state of New Jersey. A jet chartered by Dateline landed shortly after 6 today, reports WESH, the local NBC...

Sean Goldman Reunited
With Dad After 5 Years

Dec 24, 2009 5:56 AM CST

Sean Goldman Reunited With Dad After 5 Years

David Goldman's custody battle ends in Brazil

(Newser) - David Goldman, the New Jersey man fighting for five years to gain custody of the son taken to Brazil by his mother, was reunited with him today. Sean Goldman, 9, was brought to the US consulate in advance of a 9am deadline by his maternal grandmother and stepfather, but the...

Brazil Judge: Return Boy
to US Dad

Dec 22, 2009 5:55 PM CST

Brazil Judge: Return Boy to US Dad

Ruling by nation's top justice makes a reunion likely

(Newser) - Brazil's chief justice has ruled in favor of an American man seeking to gain custody of his son. Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes' ruling lifts a stay on a federal court's order for Brazilian relatives to hand over the boy. That puts David Goldman a crucial step closer to being reunited...

Docs Extract Life-Threatening Needles From Brazil Boy

Dec 18, 2009 6:41 PM CST

Docs Extract Life-Threatening Needles From Brazil Boy

Dozens still left in 2-year-old by father in bizarre ritual

(Newser) - Surgeons successfully removed four sewing needles today from the lung and near the heart of a Brazilian toddler, allegedly plunged into him by his stepfather during a month-long series of bizarre rituals. The surgery lasted nearly five hours, and the 2-year-old boy was in stable condition after the procedure. Dozens...

Brazil Blocks Release of Son to US Dad

Dec 18, 2009 8:45 AM CST

Brazil Blocks Release of Son to US Dad

But David Goldman hopes injunction is only temporary

(Newser) - Brazil's Supreme Court has unexpectedly blocked a New Jersey man's attempt to bring his 9-year-old son home. David Goldman flew to Rio yesterday planning to pick up son Sean and end a 5-year international custody dispute, after an appeals court ruled in his favor. But a justice on the top...

US Dad Wins Custody Battle in Brazil Court

Dec 17, 2009 8:49 AM CST

US Dad Wins Custody Battle in Brazil Court

David Goldman heads to Rio, but Supreme Court battle looms

(Newser) - David Goldman is headed to Rio de Janeiro today, hoping to be reunited with his 9-year-old son, Sean, after winning the latest round in his legal battle to regain custody of the boy. A Brazilian federal court has ruled that Sean must be handed over to David, an American citizen...

40 'Voodoo' Needles
Found in Brazilian Toddler

Dec 17, 2009 1:44 AM CST

40 'Voodoo' Needles Found in Brazilian Toddler

Boy was used in black magic ritual: police

(Newser) - A Brazilian 2-year-old boy is in intensive care after his stepfather pushed up to 40 sewing needles in him as part of a black magic rite, authorities say. The man has confessed, telling investigators that his mistress ordered him to kill the boy to take revenge on his wife "...

Developing Nations
Were In on 'Danish Text'

CLIMATE summit

Dec 10, 2009 10:17 AM CST

Developing Nations Were In on 'Danish Text'

China, India helped draft leaked agreement they railed against

(Newser) - The “Danish text”—the leaked climate change agreement that infuriated developing nations in Copenhagen and sparked accusations of bullying by rich countries—was actually drafted by a group that included China, India, and Brazil, among other countries. They had “input into the process and product” of the...

US Gets England in First Round

2010 WORLD CUP DRAW

Dec 4, 2009 6:38 PM CST

US Gets England in First Round

Brazil, meanwhile, lands with Portugal in Group of Death

(Newser) - The US team was among the squads getting a favorable draw for next year’s soccer World Cup in South Africa, landing in a four-team group where it and England are the top sides. The top two teams advance from each of eight groups; while the Americans will be expected...

Brazil: 'Gringos' Must Pay
to Keep Rainforests

Nov 26, 2009 8:00 PM CST

Brazil: 'Gringos' Must Pay to Keep Rainforests

Industrialized nations have done most damage to Amazon

(Newser) - Brazil's president says "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.

Airport Nabs Brit
With 1,000 Spiders

Nov 13, 2009 2:05 AM CST

Airport Nabs Brit With 1,000 Spiders

Arachnid smuggler could get jail, $2M fine

(Newser) - A British pet shop owner was nabbed at the airport in Rio de Janiero this week after customs officers found 1,000 live spiders in his checked baggage. Police say it's the biggest seizure of wildlife ever made at the airport. The spider-smuggler now faces up to a year in...

Bad Weather Blamed
for Brazil Blackout

Nov 11, 2009 6:17 PM CST

Bad Weather Blamed for Brazil Blackout

60M affected after wind, rain knock out transmission lines

(Newser) - Heavy rain and strong wind last night caused blackouts that left nearly a third of Brazilians—60 million people—in the dark, officials said today as they scrambled to restore confidence in the country's infrastructure before soccer's 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. The weather made transformers on a...

Millions Without Power in Brazil

Nov 10, 2009 8:10 PM CST

Millions Without Power in Brazil

Problems at huge hydroelectric dam spread beyond border

(Newser) - Trouble at the world’s largest hydroelectric dam has millions in Brazil without power tonight. Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro—the nation’s largest cities, with combined metropolitan populations well beyond 20 million—are affected, as are many smaller towns. An official at the Itaipu dam tells the BBC...

Brazil School Lifts Minidress Expulsion

Nov 9, 2009 9:08 PM CST

Brazil School Lifts Minidress Expulsion

Government pressure helps this 20-year-old get back on campus

(Newser) - A Brazilian woman whose short, pink dress caused a near-riot at a private college and led to her expulsion will be allowed to return to class. The private Bandeirante University today reversed its decision to expel 20-year-old Geisy Arruda following a flood of negative reaction in a nation where skimpy...

Student
Expelled for
Minidress

SHORT TEMPERS

Nov 9, 2009 10:46 AM CST

Student Expelled for Minidress

Brazilian school accuses woman of immorality in newspaper ads

(Newser) - A 20-year-old woman was expelled from a Brazilian university and accused of violating "ethical principles and academic dignity and morality" after wearing a short pink dress to class, the AP reports. Her expulsion comes a month after she was escorted off campus amid the heckling and cursing of her...

Gangs Down
Police Chopper
as Rio Burns

2016 Olympics

Oct 18, 2009 9:35 AM CDT

Gangs Down Police Chopper as Rio Burns

But Brazil says it's working on security issues for 2016 Games

(Newser) - Brazilian officials are insisting security won't be a problem for its just-won 2016 Olympics despite drug-gang violence that plunged Rio de Janeiro into a day of bloody chaos that saw gangs shoot down a police helicopter, killing two cops and injuring four. The hourslong turf war between rival gangs in...

Congrats, Rio; Now Get to Work

Oct 4, 2009 12:53 PM CDT

Congrats, Rio; Now Get to Work

Brazil has some serious cleaning to get ready for 2016 Olympics

(Newser) - Rio de Janeiro waltzed into Copenhagen on Friday, elbowed a couple of superpowers aside, whispered in the IOC's ear, and made off with the 2016 Olympics. But now in the cold light of day, Brazil has some serious roll-up-the-sleeves work to do. Its onetime oceanside gem now hangs on a...

Rio to Host 2016 Olympics

Oct 2, 2009 11:57 AM CDT

Rio to Host 2016 Olympics

(Newser) - The 2016 Olympics are going to Rio de Janeiro, putting the games in South America for the first time. Rio beat surprise finalist Madrid in the last round of voting today in Copenhagen. Chicago was knocked out in the first round, Tokyo in the second. Rio had played heavily on...