Brazil is 3 of country with the highest growth of fortunes, says report

Brazil was the third country in the world - behind China and India - which recorded the highest growth in the number of people who have financial assets worth at least $ 1 million in 2007, the result of the economic expansion of 5.4% , Increased investment and recovery of 43.65% of BOVESPA (Bovespa) last year.

According to the 12 th Annual Report on the World Wealth conducted by Merrill Lynch and CapGemini, the number of people who have large fortunes in the country increased from 120 thousand in 2006 to 143 thousand, a growth of 19.16%. Last year, growth in the number of people with assets exceeding $ 1 million had been 10.6%, according to the study.

On Monday (23), the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) released a poll showing that the difference in income between rich and poor has fallen in the past five years in Brazil.

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Commander of troops occupying Providence seeks excuses

The meeting between the military and the seven residents - including relatives of the three dead - was in the battalion headquarters in the suburb of Santo Cristo, in the central region of the city, which is close to the hills of Providence and Mining, where the victims would have been delivered to members of a faction of traffickers.

From the outside of headquarters, shortly before the meeting, a demonstrator took the clothes in sign of protest. He said it was approached by a military, which would have asked if portava any weapon. The President of the Association of Residents of the community, Vera Melo, however, said the man who took the clothes, identified as Nelson, not lives in Morro da Providência and does not represent the community formally.

The general said that the decision to stay or die should not be taken by the Ministry of Defence in the coming hours. He said the priority at present, is to finish 20 houses that are destelhadas, but depends on a decision to be taken in Brasilia or, in Rio, the Minister for Defence, Nelson Jobim.

The workers who work on the hillside have declared their intention to complete the works since the military will withdraw from Morro da Providência, where the Department of City develops a project called Social Cement, which is inspiring Senator Marcelo Crivella (PRB-RJ) .

The relatives of the victims were accompanied by lawyers who were willing to initiate actions to claim for compensation to the Union

The police investigates whether the victims came to be taken to the barracks before the crime.

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After theft, Pinacoteca Station will be open this Friday

The Pinacoteca Station, in central Sao Paulo, vai operate normally between 10am and 18h this Friday (13), after the theft of four works occurred on the morning of Thursday (12). According to the advisory's press Pinacoteca, only the second floor of the museum, where the pieces were stolen, will be closed to visitors. The site will be available only for forensic science, which investigates the case.

The robbery occurred around 12:30 on Thursday (12). After that time, the building was closed. Armed, the criminals took on the oil card Di Cavalcanti "Women in the Window" (1926), two pictures of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, "The painter and his model" (1963) and "Minotaur, drinkers and women" (1933) , And guache on a card of naturalized Brazilian painter Lasar Segall, "Young" (1919). Together, the works were valued at $ 1 million.

Atendentes and security of the museum will start this Friday to help the police in identifying the thieves of the four valuable works of the acquis of the Foundation Nemirovsky. According to director of the Department of Investigations on Organised Crime (Deic), delegate Abou Youssef Chahin, officials of the museum will examine the database of criminals and the police to compare the two pictures has already spoken testimony prepared from them.

The identification would be made primarily with the help of photographs. "Witnesses will also look at the database of photographs of Deic (to make the recognition)," said the officer Chahin.

In the coming days, the researchers will also attend the recordings of the cameras of the days preceding the crime to try to confirm whether any of the thieves was the Pinacoteca do the recognition of the place. "There may be a suspicion (about possible gone before). But we have to confirm with the films. I can not pass suspicious, because people are similar, that's the truth," explained the director of Deic.

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'Slight slowdown in GDP was desirable', says Mantega

The Minister of Finance, Guido Mantega, said this Tuesday (10) that a "slight slowdown" of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter of this year, as detected by the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), was " desirable "for which there was a" convergence "between supply and demand for products and services. For all this year, the expectation is that the minister's GDP grows 5%, against 5.4% increase recorded in 2007.

The numbers of IBGE show that the GDP rose 5.8% in the first quarter of this year, against 6.2% in the last three months of 2007. "We play a little in boiling water. In the last quarter of last year, demand for products and services, around 8.6%, was very heated," said Mantega. He recalled that the GDP figures released this Tuesday show a lower growth of demand, of 6.6% as against the last three months of last year.

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Sobe to two the number of people killed in earthquake in Greece

Two people died and 37 were injured in the earthquake of 6.5 degrees on the Richter scale that shook the peninsula of Peloponnese in the south-west of Greece, this Sunday (8) informed the Greek authorities.

The victims are a man of 56 years and an elderly of 88. Both lost their lives in the collapse of their homes.

The Greek Minister of Interior, Prokopis Pavlopulos, said the tremor demolished 50 buildings in various localities of the region and that "the damage was limited" taking into account the magnitude of the shock.

The earthquake, recorded at 15.25 (local time), happened almost one year after the devastating forest fires that left over 60 dead in the Peloponnese.

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Outside the prison, Sonia Hernandes participates in the meeting Renascer

The bispa Sonia Hernandes, founder of Renascer in Christ Apostolic Church next to the husband Estevam Hernandes, participates in the late afternoon of Saturday (7), by satellite transmission, from his first encounter with believers of the church after leaving the prison in the United States . Presa provided on January 21, she was released this morning from a prison in Florida.

Called the "Supper the officers", the meeting this Saturday happens in Ibirapuera Park since the 17h. Directed month, the event usually gather around 10 thousand deacons, presbíteros, pastors and bishops of Renascer, according to the organization. The reappearance of bispa occurred at 18h. When his face appeared in telão, it was ovacionada by the faithful.

"How I love you. How I love this church. What you are missing. How best to be proven and approved," said Sonia in his first speech in freedom. "Today I know what is to be in one place and can not preach. The Holy Spirit speaks for you," complemented.

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Avenida May 23 remains blocked three hours after accident

The driver who passed along Avenida May 23 around the 15h this Thursday (5) was congestion in both directions of the track which is part of the so-called Northern Corridor south of Sao Paulo.

The tipping a truck at the time of the Viaduct Marcondes General Salgado, near the Ibirapuera Park, which occurred around the 12h blocked the center of the track direction, causing slow both in order blocked as towards South Zone

Around the 15h, the CET was informed that winch on the spot for the withdrawal of tombado truck, but had no prediction for the release of the track. In order Santana, the queues were four kilometers in time, between the viaducts John Julian Aguiar and Euclides da Costa Figueiredo. Already towards South Zone, the length was 3.9 km, between Euclid and viaducts Jaceguai Figueiredo.

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With more visibility, radar indicates 1,123 km ² of deforestation in the Amazon

The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) reported, on the afternoon of Monday (2), data on deforestation in the Amazon Legal, referring to April this year. According to the system hold (Deforestation Detection of real-time) there was an increase in alerts of deforestation in the region. In March 2008, was 145 km ² warning of deforestation in April, this number rose to 1,123 km ² (area equivalent to the city of Rio de Janeiro - 1,182 km ²).

According to the Inpe, the increase was noted in terms of the greater power of viewing the satellite. In March, 78% of Legal Amazon was hidden by clouds, and in April, only 53% of the region was under clouds.

The hold was designed as a warning system to support the supervision and control of deforestation. "They are cutting raso mapped areas and areas of process of deforestation by forest degradation. Because of the limited resolution of the system, it is possible to detect, just, polygons of deforestation larger than 25 hectares. Because the cover of clouds, not all major deforestation of 25 hectares are identified by the system, "said John Vianei Soares, general coordinator of earth observation.

Mato Grosso and Roraima are two states with the largest area deforested, according to the Inpe. In March, Mato Grosso had 112.4 km ² warning of deforestation, and 69% of its area covered by clouds. Roraima, allowing good viewing, was 18.8 km ² warning of deforestation.

In April, Mato Grosso presented 794.1 km ² of warnings of deforestation, with only 14% of its area covered by clouds. Roraima was 284.8 km ² warning of deforestation, with 18% of its area covered.

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Lula wants to convince the partner countries that ethanol is viable

The President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said here Sunday (1), in Rome, that the main objective of Brazil in the Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Food Security, Climate Change and Bioenergy, which begins Tuesday Thursday (3) in the Italian capital, is to convince international partners that the Brazilian ethanol no threat to food production.

According to the BBC, "the president said the international campaign in favour of the government of Brazilian ethanol is" a necessary war "for Brazil. According to him, NGOs, farmers and European automotive industry in Europe are among those who campaign against ethanol.

"It is not the ethanol that makes up the price of food, because Brazil, which produces more biofuels, also produces more food," he said.

According to Lula, the conference will be an opportunity to give Brazil the sequence to the debate on alternative fuels for the next decades.

"We are convinced that the world can reluctant, but vai have to take responsibility to use other fuels," said the president "Agency Brazil", in an interview at the Embassy of Brazil.

Lula arrived on Saturday (31) to the city to attend the conference. In his speech at the opening ceremony, the president will make a defence of biofuels, highlighted by some countries as one of the villains in the high prices of food.

In this interview Sunday, the president also said that Brazil has presented alternative consistent and that biofuels and ethanol can be "a great chance of African territory." He reiterated that the climate in Africa is very similar to the Central West and so the Brazilian government intends to transfer technology for the production of these fuels in countries of the continent.

The president also again criticized agricultural subsidies in rich countries, which create obstacles for exports of Brazilian products.

Lula also said that vai talk with the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, to convene a meeting on the speculation on oil prices. About Amazon, said that does not allow international criticism concerning the preservation of forests, citing Europe, which has only 0.3% of its original forest.

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