RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Brazil great Zico is set to take over as coach of the Iraq national team, the sports daily Lance reported on Monday.
"Everything has been agreed. The only thing missing is the signature," the former Flamengo player was quoted as saying. "Everything else has been resolved."
Zico added that the contract will take him up to the Asian Games in 2013, although it is li [...]
SAO PAULO (AFP) - A Brazilian reporter held for a week in Libya by security officials was released Thursday in good health and was in the care of Brazil's ambassador to the conflict-torn country, his newspaper said.
Andrei Netto, 34, was now staying in the Tripoli residence of Brazilian ambassador George Ney Fernandes, the Estado de Sao Paulo daily said. He was expected to leave Libya on [...]
BRASILIA (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas laid the first stone Friday of what will become a Palestinian embassy in Brazil, the most important Latin American country to recognize a sovereign Palestinian state.
The symbolic act underlined a general movement in South America to recognize Palestine as a country, despite sharp criticism from Israel and US lawmakers.
Argentine, Boliv [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was to travel to Brazil later on Wednesday to lay the symbolic foundation stone of a Palestinian embassy in Brasilia.
The ceremony is to take place on Friday and comes after Brazil announced it was recognising a Palestinian state based on the borders which existed before the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel seized the [...]
Read MoreBRASILIA (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to lay the symbolic first stone of an embassy in Brazil this week, following Brasilia's decision to recognize a Palestinian state, the Palestinian representative here told AFP.
Abbas will head the stone-laying ceremony on Friday, and on Saturday he will attend the inauguration ceremony for Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, Palesti [...]
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ABU DHABI (AFP) - A much changed Brazil from the one that disappointed at the World Cup finals eased to a 3-0 victory over Iran in an international friendly here on Thursday.
Goals by Daniel Alves, Alexandre Pato and Nilmar were enough to see the Brazilians to an easy win on what was their second appearance in the United Arab Emirates - they walloped the UAE 8-0 in 2005.
Brazil - now under the [...]
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil Tuesday signed on to UN sanctions against Iran despite misgivings over the measures following its efforts to negotiate a nuclear-swap deal with the Islamic state.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed the decree "because there is a tradition of carrying out (UN) Security Council resolutions, including those we don't agree with," Foreign Minister Celso Amorim t [...]
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula on Saturday offered to give asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, according to news reports.
"I want to make an appeal to my friend (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad, the supreme leader of Iran (Ali Khamenei), and to the government of Iran" to allow Brazil to take in the woman, Lula said during a [...]
ISTANBUL (AFP) - Foreign ministers of Turkey and Brazil urged Iran Sunday to be flexible and open in dealings with the West over its atomic programme as Iran renewed its readiness to resume frozen nuclear talks.
The call came as Turkey's Ahmet Davutoglu and Brazil's Celso Amorim met their Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki over a luncheon in Istanbul, the first such gathering since [...]
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TEHRAN (AFP) - The top diplomats of Iran, Brazil and Turkey will discuss nuclear fuel supplies for Tehran in Istanbul on Sunday, in the first such gathering since the Islamic republic was slapped with new sanctions.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was to meet his Brazilian and Turkish counterparts, Celso Amorim and Ahmet Davutoglu, "to discuss... the Tehran Declaration about th [...]
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