Ahmadinejad leaves for tour including Brazil, Venezuela (AFP)
Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work (AP) AP - Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor. Brazil's Lula calls for Israel settlement freeze (AFP)
Brazil leader urges freeze on Israeli settlements (AP)
Abbas, Lula hold talks on Mideast (AFP)
WTO authorizes Brazil sanctions over U.S. cotton (Reuters) Reuters - The World Trade Organization authorized Brazil Thursday to impose trade sanctions on the United States over its support for cotton, as Brazil ratcheted up pressure on Washington over the illegal subsidies. Brazil court backs Battisti extradition, but Lula has final say (AFP)
Brazil: President to decide on Italian fugitive (AP)
Movie reveals tragedy, ambition of Brazil's Lula (AFP)
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AFP - Faced with mounting pressure over his country's atomic ambitions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left on a five nation tour Sunday, including Brazil in a bid to boost ties with Latin America's biggest economy and a rare backer of Tehran's nuclear programme.
AFP - Israeli settlement expansion on Palestinian territory must stop immediately, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday as he seeks to position Brazil as a player in the Middle East.
AP - Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is joining his Palestinian counterpart in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians.
AFP - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday received Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas here Thursday for the first in a series of discussions on forging peace in the Middle East, the foreign ministry said Thursday.
AFP - Brazil's supreme court Wednesday authorized the extradition of Italian ex-militant Cesare Battisti, wanted for murders dating from the 1970s, but left President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with final say in the case.
AP - Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the nation's president should decide whether to extradite Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti, a former leftist rebel wanted by his native country for political killings in the 1970s.
AFP - The premiere of a new movie about the early life of Brazil's phenomenally popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left an audience in tears -- and some critics on Wednesday predicting Oscar glory.
