BRASILIA, Brazil, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Brazil's president has evaluated the recent G20 meeting in Pittsburgh and offered Brazilian experience to combat global warming.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Brazilian Vice President Jose Alencar says he favors Brazil developing nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any foreign aggressor's attempt to capture its offshore oil fields -- but also to win international respectability.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- The de facto Honduran government has closed two broadcasters that aired messages from deposed President Manuel Zelaya, police said Monday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will visit Iran after playing host to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this November, Brazilian media reported.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The Scandinavian countries are in an arms deal frenzy: While Sweden is in negotiations to sell fighter jets to Brazil, Denmark is looking to buy a host of weapons systems to boost its troops in Afghanistan.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Brazil is considering stopping capital investment into foreign oil projects and concentrating instead on developing its own huge offshore sub-salt deposits, officials said.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Heating a highly coveted fighter jet deal, Sweden has bid to sell 36 warplanes to Brazil at nearly half the price of competing U.S. and French models.

LONDON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Despite recent moves toward rearmament and anti-U.S. rhetoric from longtime critics like Venezuela, Latin America is moving towards more pragmatic policies that will facilitate the Obama administration's re-engagement with the continent, the annual strategic survey from the International Institute for Strategic Studies said Tuesday.