Bay Ledger News Zonebill@blnz.comtag:www.blnz.com,2009:states/acretag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/02/15/Brazil_environmental_icon_form_party_2efd

Environmental icon and former senator Marina Silva will set up a new party Saturday, one year before Brazil's presidential elections, an aide said Friday.

2013-02-15T17:37:47ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/04/22/Google_launches_Street_View_Israel_bd7a

Google on Sunday launched Street View in Israel, the US Internet giant said, putting on show streets and sites of interest from the Holy Land's three major cities with its 360-degree street-level images.

2012-04-22T14:40:03ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/02/01/Brazils_Rousseff_Haiti_after_Cuba_f3b4

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff arrived in Haiti Wednesday for talks on economic ties and immigration after a visit to Cuba where she signed trade deals and met revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.

2012-02-01T18:31:43ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/02/01/Brazils_Rousseff_refuses_criticize_Cuba_ba8a

Visiting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff refused to criticize Cuba's human rights record , saying the issue should not be used to score ideological points.

2012-02-01T05:54:20ZAFP Global Editionby Francisco Jaratag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/01/31/Brazils_Rousseff_refuses_criticize_Cubas_e6be

Visiting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff refused to criticize this communist-ruled nation's human rights record here Tuesday, saying the issue should not be used to score ideological points.

2012-01-31T20:34:53ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/01/30/Brazils_Rousseff_visits_communist_Cuba_7375

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla who now leads Latin America's biggest economy, was in Cuba Monday on a visit to discuss bilateral economic cooperation and human rights.

2012-01-30T23:49:15ZAFP Global Editionby Carlos Batistatag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/11/22/releases_pictures_Brazils_isolated_Amazon_14bb

A non-governmental group on Tuesday released new pictures of an Indian tribe living in isolation in the Brazilian Amazon and warned that they are threatened by the return of illegal gold miners on their territory.

2011-11-22T19:45:20ZAFP Global Editionby Claire de Oliveiratag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/11/08/Gaza_doctor_tragedy_central_Israeli_6b56

ACRE, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli mother-and-daughter play performed at a recent theater festival climaxed with the tale of the killing of a Gaza doctor's family, a 2009 event that brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict deep into Israeli living rooms.

2011-11-08T14:58:06ZReuters Life! Online ReportOri Lewistag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/10/08/Muslim_Christian_graves_desecrated_Israeli_de96

TEL AVIV-JAFFA, Israel (Reuters) - Dozens of gravestones were desecrated at adjacent Muslim and Christian cemeteries overlooking the sea at Jaffa and a fire-bomb was thrown at a nearby synagogue, on Saturday, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.

2011-10-08T21:40:31ZReuters US Online Report World NewsDouglas Hamiltontag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/10/08/Muslim_Christian_graves_desecrated_Israeli_e142

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Headstones at a Muslim and a Christian cemetery were desecrated by unknown assailants in Jaffa on Saturday, the Jewish holy fast day of Yom Kippur, an Israeli website said.

2011-10-08T14:50:34ZReuters US Online Report World NewsREUTERStag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/10/05/Namibian_memorial_reignites_call_German_8d8a

A national memorial Wednesday for 20 Namibian skulls seized by Imperial Germany a century ago provoked emotional calls for reparations for colonial-era abuses.

2011-10-05T18:13:54ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/10/04/Namibias_ancestral_skulls_welcomed_home_c79e

A century after colonial German authorities seized the remains of Africans for racial experiments, 20 skulls returned Tuesday to Namibia with military honours to be laid in state at parliament.

2011-10-04T13:53:15ZAFP Global Editionby Brigitte Weidlichtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/08/10/Brazil_fears_traffickers_have_killed_f075

Officials in Brazil have said they had no news of an isolated tribe of Amazonian natives who may have been attacked by suspected Peruvian drug traffickers, amid fears of a bloodbath.

2011-08-10T06:23:44ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/07/27/Farm_cuts_smaller_than_expected_7ee0

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. agricultural programs face cuts of $10-$11 billion over the next decade as Congress slashes federal spending to reduce the budget deficit, said a senior farm-state Democrat on Wednesday.

2011-07-27T20:28:23ZReuters US Online Report Politics NewsREUTERStag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/05/28/Amazon_activist_shot_dead_third_f461

A community leader who had denounced illegal logging in Brazil's Amazon was shot dead Friday, a church ministry said, making him the third environmental activist killed this week.

2011-05-28T21:29:23ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/04/20/Arab_lawyers_passed_letters_Islamic_9719

Four Arab-Israeli lawyers have been arrested over allegations they passed letters from Palestinians in Israeli jails to the Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

2011-04-20T14:46:44ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/04/14/Brazil_issues_12_fines_beef_7a53

Brazilian authorities announced Thursday they are seeking $1.2 billion in fines against 14 companies accused of buying beef from farms exploiting illegally deforested areas or slave labor in the Amazon.

2011-04-14T23:43:26ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/03/16/Relics_Saint_Therese_arrive_Jerusalem_e62c

The relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux, a widely-revered 19th-century Roman Catholic nun, made a solemn entry into Jerusalem on Wednesday, the start of a tour of the Holy Land until May 31.

2011-03-16T19:54:49ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/12/22/Brazil_step_crackdown_biopiracy_2011_7f22

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil plans to expand a crackdown on companies that patent products made from rare plants and animals without adequately compensating the South American country or its indigenous communities.

2010-12-22T17:12:47ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsBrian Ellsworthtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2010/12/18/California_approves_first_broad_climate_1c00

California has approved the most sweeping US plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, acting on its own against climate change as proposed nationwide plans flounder in Washington.

2010-12-18T08:23:16ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reporter