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Brazil lawmakers red-faced over mystery underwear
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Mystery underwear found during a parliamentary session earlier this month is causing a lot of red faces in the Brazilian Congress, a report said Thursday. The red and white panties, described by O Globo daily as “rather large” and “not a G-string,” were inadvertently dropped…
Chevron accused of ‘environmental crime’ in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO — Federal prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday accused US oil giant Chevron and 17 executives of “environmental crime” in connection with a major spill off southeastern Brazil last November. The country’s national oil regulator estimates that 2,400 barrels of crude were spilled in the accident,…
London mulls Rio-style Jesus statue for Olympics
London may erect a replica of Rio de Janeiro’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue to mark the passage of the Olympic torch to Brazil at the end of this year’s games, reports said. The 30-foot (10-metre) sculpture would sit atop Primrose Hill, one of the most popular viewing points in…
Brazil fines Chevron for oil spill
Brazil’s Environment Institute on Friday ordered US oil giant Chevron to pay another fine related to the early November oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The agency, known as Ibama, ordered Chevron to pay $5.4 million for failures in the company’s emergency plan. Ibama earlier fined Chevron…
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