Brazil Faces Deep Recession as $30 Billion Bailout Looms
Brazil endures job losses and a stagnant auto market as Asia's crisis spreads. With the real overvalued and rates above 40 percent, banks flee, consumers delay purchases, and firms like GM Caterpillar Tele Rio report steep declines. IMF funding and new credit lines offer hope but uncertainty persists.
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Asia
Russia
Brazil
United States
America
Aees
U.S
Midwest
Argentina
Mexico
Raul Velloso
Brasilia
Congress
International Monetary Fund
IMF
Botafogo
Dupin
Antonio Minervino
Clinton
General Motors Corp
Bob Sharp
Sao Paulo
Sharp
Caterpillar Inc
Latin America
Caterpillar
Robert Petterson
Tele- Rio
Rio
David Montero
Volunteers save whales with trucks and surfers in Tasmania
In Hobart Australia volunteers used trucks to haul stranded pilot whales back to sea as surfers guided them to deeper waters. Despite the effort 24 of the Blackmans Bay pod died and a separate 60 whale pod in Orford perished. initial beaching at Marion Bay saw 56 whales strand and 21 die. Rangers moved a whale calf to deepen water hoping to attract others, but many of the pod returned to the bay entrance and about 50 died in shallow water.
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Hobart
Australia
Blackman’s Bay
Tasmania
Orford
Marion Bay
Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service
Max Kitchell
Train derails in Egypt killing 47 near Alexandria
A northern Egypt train derailed at Kafr el-Dawar station sending cars into adjacent shops and bystanders. At least 47 people died and about 101 were injured as passengers fled, with officials citing a high speed track change and tampered brakes as likely causes.
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Cairo
Egypt
Nabih Yousef Shaltout
Shaltout
Middle East
Alexandria
Kafr el-Sheik
Kafr el-Dawar
Hany Roushdy
Mahmoud Marei
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Elizabeth Torresi
South America
Elvio Aliprandi
Angels OF
Angels of Joy
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