Brazil's President Rousseff attends welcoming ceremony in Beijing
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff (R) and China's President Hu Jintao inspect a military honor guard during a welcoming ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 12, 2011. Rousseff is on a five-day state visit to China, during which she will push for a series of trade and investment deals. UPI/Stephen Shaver
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Sweden's Saab is upgrading its bid for Brazil's FX-2 jet fighter purchase plan, even as it weighs challenges from rivals Boeing and France's Dassault.
Brazil's plans to build an electronic fence along its border moved forward with what appears to be the final selection of local and foreign suppliers.
Brazil is rebuilding its major Antarctic research base, gutted in a fire more than a year ago, but millions of dollars worth of scientific data acquired over the years will be impossible to recover.
An exhibition soccer match was held in Brazil's Maracana stadium Saturday to mark the completion of renovations for the 2014 World Cup.
Brazil's long-delayed FX-2 fighter purchase program has been delayed again, leaving all three leading contractors guessing the outcome, whenever it happens.
Brazil is beefing up national security in preparation for the July visit of Pope Francis, FIFA World Cup next year and the Olympics in 2016.
Piecemeal upgrades to Brazilian air force inventory are threatening to overshadow the Latin American country's most important -- and most delayed -- plan to discard aging war jets and replace them with a brand-new inventory.
Extreme global poverty can be wiped out "within a generation," but climate change could wipe out all forms of progress, the World Bank chief said in Washington.
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Heavy rains Monday caused landslides that killed at least 16 people in Petropolis, Brazil, 40 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, officials said.
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