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PF says that if Protógenes desisitir of course, can be in the Satiagraha

2008-07-17T18:35:00.001-03:00

The Federal Police spread in this Thursday (17) passages of the carving done during the meeting in which there was decided the exit of the delegate Protógenes Queiroz of the Operation Satiagaha. The passages were selected by the PF because the meeting of three hours that happened in the thirst of the PF of Sao Paulo in the beginning of the week would have treated as secret subjects.

The TV Globo had access to a part of the carving in which the delegate proposes to accumulate the driving of the inquiry with the course in the academy of police officer, of Monday on Saturday in full time.

Protógenes would take the testimonies in every weekend. According to the PF the course is of integral dedication, and therefore there was no agreement. The PF affirms that if the delegate to give up of the course, he will be able to continue in the inquiry.

Source: G1

Young person confesses to have killed family in Mines, says police officer

2008-07-12T19:50:00.002-03:00

A 22-year-old young person confessed, according to the police officer, to have killed to blows of penknife and marreta the father, the mother and two sisters in Unaí (MG), to 160 km of Brasilia. The crime took place in the dawn of this Saturday (12). According to the police officer, the young person would have killed the family after having being attacked by the father.

He was detained in the morning. He had a cut in the arm and was showing calm when it was imprisoned, it informed the police officer. The bodies of four victims were discovered by a neighbor, who found the screams of dawn strange at the home.

The bodies were found in the back yard of the house, covered with sheets and under a mattress. The dead men were the father of the 48-year-old boy, the 35-year-old mother, and two sisters, one of ten years and other one of 19. A brother of the boy was in the work when the crime was practiced.

The case provoked distress in Unaí. The city has 75 thousand inhabitants and few registers of violent crimes. The city gained national distinction in 2004, after three supervisors and a driver of the Department of Labor that were working in the inspection of farms of the region were murdered.

Neighbors would have said that young I calm era, it was working and planning to marry. In agreement with the police officer, he had not register of fights or criminal record. The police officer did not inform if he was alcoolizado or it was shown to be under effect of drugs.

The young person must be a prisoner up to the judgement. It will be condemned by the crimes, it can catch a feather from 12 to 30 years of prison in regime closed for each one of the deaths.

Source: G1

President of the STF criticizes judge who ordered prison of Dantas

2008-07-11T20:02:00.002-03:00

In the decision that granted again freedom to a banker Daniel Dantas, a president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Gilmar Mendes, it criticized the federal judge Fausto de Sanctis, of the 6th Criminal Stick of Sao Paulo, which had determined the prison of the businessman two times.

For the Minister, the new prison of Dantas “ reveals clear oblique road of disregarding the decision of the Federal Supreme Court ”. “ It is not the first time that the Federal Titular Judge of the 6th Criminal Stick of the Judicial Subsection of Sao Paulo, dr. Fausto Martin de Sanctis, revolts against decision emanated from the Court ”, it criticized Gilmar Mendes.

While telling to set the banker free, Gilmar Mendes reiterated that, again, the "fundamentação" used by the judge “ is not sufficient ” to justify the prison of the banker.

Source: G1

Justice revokes prison of three soldiers of the Providence

2008-07-09T21:25:00.001-03:00

The protective custody of three of 11 soldiers wrapped in the death of three young persons of the Hill of the Providence, in the Zone Portuária of the Rio, it was revoked in this Wednesday (9) by the titular judge of the 7th Federal Criminal Stick, Marcello Ferreira Granado. In accordance with the decision, the soldier Eduardo Pereira of Olive tree and sergeant Bruno Eduardo de Fátima would not have participated of the detention of the victims, and the end Samuel de Souza Oliveira would not have contributed to the episode of relevant form.

The magistrate ended that there would no be fear of which they were threatening you witness residents of the town. In the decision, the judge also alleged that, at other moments of the event, the three remained in situation of hierarchical obedience, without determinative participation in the ending of the episode.

Source: G1

Dantas, Pitta and Nahas will stay in separate cells, it informs PF

2008-07-08T20:33:00.001-03:00

The Federal Police is going to maintain three names most known between the prisoners of the Operation Satiagraha - the banker Daniel Dantas, the ex-mayor of Sao Paulo Celso Pitta and the businessman Naji Nahas - in cells separated in the thirst of the PF of Sao Paulo, it informed the advisory body of press of the organ.

The three are between 17 imprisoned persons in the operation that it investigates I divert of public allowances and financial crimes. The operation wrapped around 300 agents of the Federal Police, in the Rio of January and in Sao Paulo.

Source: G1

Without agreement, officials of the Mail maintain strike

2008-07-07T16:21:00.001-03:00

The officials of the Mail decided, in this Monday (7), after an audience of conciliation in the Superior Court of the Work (TST), in Brasilia, to maintain the strike initiated into last week. Since the strike began, 28 million objects are kept in the deposits of the Mail, in accordance with the swinging spread by the enterprise, in Friday (4). The daily volume, in normal days, is 33 million orders and correspondências.

The president of the TST, of I Crush Minister Rider Nogueira, it proposed, during the audience of conciliation, that the officials of the Mail were shutting in the strike, begun in 1st of July. If the strikers do that, he pledged himself to mediate the negotiation between the workers and the state company. The proposal of the Minister will be taken to the assemblies of the trade unions in all Brazil, predicted to take place still in this Monday, from 16h.

The secretary-general of the National Federation of the Workers in Enterprises of Mail, Telegraphs and Similar (Fentect), Manoel Cantoara, said to believe, meantime, that the officials must not accept the proposal of the Minister. " The enterprise does not want to negotiate anything. "

The executive chief executive of Management of Persons of the Mail, Alberto de Mello, for his time, says that the state company will not manage to pay attention to the claims of the strikers. " It is impracticable ", it guarantees. Since the strike began, Mello appreciates that 28 million orders stopped being handed already in all Brazil.

Source: G1

Imprisoned soldiers of the Army are after theft of cars

2008-07-06T20:53:00.000-03:00

Two soldiers of the Army and a civilian were imprisoned in the act, in the night of Saturday (5), in Mangaratiba, Metropolitan Region of the Rio, suspects of stealing two cars. The informations are of the 166th DP (Inlet of the Kings), to where three prisoners they were taken.

According to the police officer, first, three suspects stole a white Goal in the city of the Rio. Of there, they followed to Muriqui, in Mangaratiba, where they stole another vehicle. Of this time, a Zafira.

After being informed about the theft, policemen of the 33rd BPM (Inlet of the Kings) managed to locate the cars and the suspects. Together with them, a pistol was apprehended 45 calibrates.

The police officer informed that at the moment of the prison the soldiers were not dressed in uniform. In the office, three suspects were recognized by the victims.

Source: G1

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

2008-06-24T18:40:00.000-03:00

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.

Source: G1

Commander of troops occupying Providence seeks excuses

2008-06-17T16:24:00.000-03:00

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.

Source: G1

After theft, Pinacoteca Station will be open this Friday

2008-06-13T10:06:00.000-03:00

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.

Source: G1

'Slight slowdown in GDP was desirable', says Mantega

2008-06-10T16:59:00.001-03:00

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.

Source: G1

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

2008-06-08T15:56:00.001-03:00

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.

Source: G1

Outside the prison, Sonia Hernandes participates in the meeting Renascer

2008-06-07T19:32:00.000-03:00

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.

Source: G1

Avenida May 23 remains blocked three hours after accident

2008-06-05T15:35:00.000-03:00

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.

Source: G1

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

2008-06-02T21:41:00.000-03:00

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.

Source: G1

Lula wants to convince the partner countries that ethanol is viable

2008-06-01T14:16:00.001-03:00

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.

Source: G1

Police learns suitcases with $ 7 million in Amazonas

2008-05-21T23:01:00.001-03:00

Federal Police found seven bags with almost $ 7 million in an empty house in Coari (AM). The suspicion is that the money was diverted from municipal through fraud in bidding. To the police, the bags of money belonged to the criminal group discovered in Operation Vorax.

According to the Federal Police, the officers were checking an anonymous complaint that there would be money in a house in a range of housing Coari.

When arrived on the scene, the house was abandoned, but were lining in the seven suitcases full of money. Facade of stamps of companies used in the scheme were also found.

Federal agents triggered on Tuesday (20), Operation Vorax, in which 23 people were arrested. According to research, they are part of a square bidding mounted for cheating in Coari.

Source: G1

Board allows shared custody of children

2008-05-20T21:51:00.000-03:00

The Chamber of Deputies approved this Tuesday (20) a bill allowing the shared custody of children of divorced couples. This means that a child will spend the time with his father and part with the mother, who also share the responsibility for their children. The project has already been approved by the Senate and presidential sanction to follow.

The text adopted by members allows the judge decides for the same shared custody to a dispute between the parties. The project gives preference to this type of guard instead of unilateral, in which only one parent is left with the children.

In shared custody, the parents separated divide the responsibilities on their children. It is up to parents decide together all matters concerning the development of their heirs.

To define the activities of parents in custody shared the judge may request aid to a professional. Any unauthorized alteration or breach of clauses of the contract of guard may involve a loss of law, including the reduction of the number of hours that the father or the mother has with the child.

Source: G1

Job creation formal hits record in early 2008

2008-05-19T21:00:00.000-03:00

The creation of jobs formal beat new historical record in the first four months of 2008, according to the General Register of Employees and Unemployed (Caged) of the Ministry of Labour, disclosed this Monday (19).

According to the record, were generated from the beginning of the year by 848,962 jobs in April with signed portfolio, equivalent to growth of 2.93% in the period. Regarding accumulated in the first quarter of 2007 (701,619 vacancies), growth is 21%.

In the last 12 months, the level of formal employment grew 6.29%, equivalent to the creation of 1,764,735 new jobs. The result is higher than the cumulative observed in 2007, which had registered the creation of 1,360,799 vacancies - growth of 5.04% compared to 2006.

Source: G1

Petrobras exceeds Microsoft in market value, says study

2008-05-19T20:36:00.002-03:00

Petrobras surpassed Microsoft has, becoming the third largest company on the American continent in the market value (sum of the value of their shares), according to consultancy Economática released this Monday (19).

The survey took as a basis the stock price of companies in last Friday (16), when the Petrobras had a market value of approximately $ 287.2 billion, against $ 279.3 billion of the largest software world.

On that day, preferred shares of Petrobras closed quoted at R $ 48.15, while shares worth $ 57.90. Already the roles of Microsoft closed worth $ 29.99 each.

In one year, the Brazilian company's stock rose over 110%, while the roles of Microsoft suffered devaluation of 3.5% over the closing on May 16, 2007

In the ranking of the largest companies in America in market value, apart from Petrobras, listed as other Brazilian CVRD, in ninth place with $ 196.5 billion, and Bradesco, with $ 67.2 billion in the forty-third position.

The only Mexican company to appear in the ranking is the operator of phone America Movil, with U.S. $ 99 billion, with twenty-ninth position. First on the list was the largest oil company in the world, Exxon Mobil, with value estimated at U.S. $ 489.6 billion.

Source: G1

Anna Jatobá meets with parents in the prison chapel

2008-05-18T21:39:00.000-03:00

Anna Carolina Jatobá and their parents, that this Sunday (18) were the female prison of Tremembé, to 138 km from Sao Paulo, met in a chapel, located at the back of the prison, according to informed her father, Alexandre Jatobá.

The visit to the parents of Isabella lasted about two hours. "Slew the nostalgia. We mourn. In embrace, "said Alexandre Jatobá, to leave the prison. Parents led the Anna Jatobá two books of Allan Kardec on doctrines of spiritism, clothes and food.

According to her father, stepmother still saying that it is innocent and prove his innocence. In the assessment of Alexander Jatobá, it is well "as far as possible" and that itself out of health problem seen by a doctor last Friday (16). According to her father, the greatest concern of Anna Jatobá is with the children.

Source: G1

Elevator with 12 people despenca 9 meters in hospital in Grande SP

2008-05-18T21:37:00.001-03:00

A lift despencou this Sunday (18) about nine meters in height - the ground floor until the second underground - at least 12 people in a private hospital in Barueri, in Greater Sao Paulo, according to information from the Fire Brigade of Barueri.

Extra-officially, an official of the secretariat of the hospital confirmed the 12 victims, but not spent more information. The direction of the hospital has not yet been expressed about the accident.

A police office in Central Barueri said that was in place and was informed by municipal guards that 12 people were taken off the elevator after the accident. According to the police, the lift will be submitted to expertise that vai investigating the causes of the fall.

Also according to the fire, only two of the victims had more serious injuries - a machucou the knee and another fraturou the leg. The others are well. Fire fighters still do not know the causes of the accident, if there was weight than the allowable limit or a defect in the lift.

The victims were visiting relatives and friends in hospital and were answered on the spot - the 17h, they were still under observation in hospital, according to firefighters. The accident happened around 15h of this Sunday and three teams of firefighters were sent to hospital.

Source: G1

Cuba set up a TV channel with content abroad

2008-05-17T17:54:00.000-03:00

Cuba will take from this semester a new television channel that will operate 24 hours and whose programming will include material from foreign companies as Televisión Española, Discovery, Telesur and Venezolana de Television, informed the local press here Saturday.
The President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), Ernesto Lopez, quoted by the official newspaper Juventud Rebelde, said the new channel "can be seen in a first step, for 50% of the population of the island."

Lopez made the announcement at the Commission of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Parliament, one month after the ICRT has received much criticism in Congress 7 of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).

The programming of state television was accused of being superficial, boring and bad play of foreign models, also has little domestic production.

In Cuba, there are now four national channels: Cubavisión, Tele Rebelde and Educational 1 and 2.

A fifth channel, Cubavisión International, conveys to the outside, but inside the country reaches cable to hotels, foreign companies and diplomatic delegations.

Also, there are regional channels in each province that work eight hours a day.

Source: EFE, Terra

Lula ironiza debate on food crisis and denies responsibility in Brazil

2008-05-17T17:49:00.001-03:00

The President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva joked this Saturday (17) the debate in Europe and developed countries on the food crisis, the preservation of the Amazon and criticism biofuels, of which Brazil is the world leader.

"Now (say) we are responsible for the increase in the price of food. However, yesterday (in the V Summit of Latin America, Caribbean and European Union) not seen any European talk about the (price of) oil. It is like the sacred cow. Moves from $ 30 to $ 124 there is one critical, "Lula denounced.

Source: G1

Arrested owner of boat that sank in the Amazon

2008-05-16T21:36:00.000-03:00

He was arrested on the afternoon of Friday (16), Dallas (AM), one of the owners of the vessel Commander Sales, which sank in Rio Solimoes. At least 48 people died in the sinking. The Navy reported that the situation on the boat was irregular.

Pre-trial detention was imposed this Friday at the request of the delegate of the council. According to witnesses, the owner would be riding the boat on the wreck.

On the day of the accident, the boat went to Dallas after a party in the town of Lake Fish. There is no confirmation of the number of passengers, because there was no official list. Somados the numbers of victims rescued with life and of bodies found, the Navy estimates that at least 118 people were on board, but the number may be higher.

Source: G1