CULTURE:  Portugal Surrenders to Brazil
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LISBON, Nov 8 (IPS) - Both the rapid modernisation of Portugal since it   joined the European Union (EU, or European Economic Community at  the time)  in 1986 and the fact that Brazil is now among the  world's ten largest  economies have increased the mutual  respect between the two countries.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's president often gets  criticized by his old leftist friends for being conservative at  home. But globally he has reshaped the debate on intellectual  property rights to reflect the needs of poor nations.
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When President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited China in May of 2004, he was like an innocent abroad. He naively thought the Chinese would welcome his attempts to form a strategic partnership between two of the worldâs largest developing countries.
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RIO CUEIRAS, Brazil  - Brazil's center-left  government will unseal archives of the country's 1964-85  military dictatorship in an effort to resolve a painful chapter  in the nation's recent history, the justice minister said on  Tuesday.
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Portugal made good Tuesday on a promise to help restore the reputation of one of its diplomats who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, only to be fired in disgrace by his neutral government over fears of angering Nazi Germany.
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Brazil recognized China as a market economy on Friday, a move that should make it easier for the two countries to do business. Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. also agreed on a $1 billion deal to construct a natural gas pipeline.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil wants a seat at the top  table of world nations.
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Portugal takes over the rotating EU presidency in a tenure likely to involve talks on Turkey's accession.
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LISBON, Portugal  - Portugal's conservative government is quitting, Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes announced Saturday, a day after the president dissolved the legislature and called an early general election.
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The Portuguese government resigned on Saturday to avoid turf battles with President Jorge Sampaio in the run-up to snap elections in February.
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Brazil&#39;s Ministry of Foreign Relations is commemorating two World Trade Organization decisions that were favorable to Brazil. The decisions, which are now official, concerned EU and US subsidies on sugar and cotton, repectively.
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Brazil's president met with ailing Fidel Castro on Tuesday, a surprise ending to a visit during which he offered Cuba credits for food and infrastructure and signed a deal for Brazil to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Portugal were bundled out of the men's  soccer tournament at the Athens Olympics on Wednesday after a  humiliating 4-2 defeat by Costa Rica.
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Brazil says it has settled 81,000 families on redistributed land, but falls short of its own target.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 2 (IPS) - No one is admitting it publicly, but there is now  little doubt that nine years of negotiations to reach a free  trade agreement between South America's Mercosur trade bloc  and the European Union have failed, without even leaving any real  hope for the coming year.
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Washington may be as reviled in Brazil as elsewhere in Latin America, but the United States has become a top destination for a new generation of Brazilians drifting away from the European culture their parents knew.
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By Tiago Pariz and Carmen Munari BRASILIA, Brazil  - A leading centrist party isthreatening to leave Brazil's governing coalition next week ina move that could jeopardize the president's reforms inCongress and pressure him to give it more Cabinet posts.