Topic: Angra dos Reis
President Dilma Rousseff inaugurated an offshore oil operation Friday in Angra dos Reis bay she said showed Brazil's capacity to develop its own energy resources.The offshore platform, to be used for deepwater production by the state oil company Petrobras some ...
Would you like to experience the joyous insanity of Carnaval in Rio, but then find an out-of-the-way idyllic spot to recover? If so, you should explore Ilha Grande ("Big Island") - the third largest oceanic island off the coast of Brazil, about 150 ...
Rescue teams scoured ravines and hillsides searching for survivors of landslides that have killed 72 people in the past days as hopes dimmed with each passing hour.Searchers found four bodies on Monday in Angra dos Reis, a beach city 150 kilometers ...
Mayor of slide-hit city seeks precautionary closure of Brazil's 2 nuclear plants; toll at 75The mayor of a mudslide-devastated city has urged a precautionary shutdown of Brazil's only nuclear power plants due to blocked highways while the death toll from ...
but if landslides persist in the hills, we'll need to shut them down," Mayor Tuca Jordao told a press conference in this seaside town some 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Rio de Janeiro.Angra overlooks Ilha Grande island, where 29 ...
Rescuers on Sunday searched for more bodies from an avalanche of mud and rock that buried a luxury Brazilian hotel filled with New Year's revelers, as the death toll from heavy rains in the south of the country stood at 63 ...
Rescuers pulled more bodies from an avalanche of thick mud and rock that buried a luxury Brazilian hotel filled with New Year's revelers, as the death toll from heavy rains in the south of the country rose to 63.Twenty-eight people ...
Rescuers Saturday pulled more bodies from an avalanche of thick mud and rock that buried a luxury hotel filled with New Year's revellers, as landslides in southern Brazil claimed about 60 lives.The death toll from the hotel tragedy on Ilha ...
Rescuers Saturday pulled more bodies from an avalanche of thick mud and rock that buried a luxury hotel filled with New Year's revellers, as southern Brazil landslides claimed about 60 lives.The death toll from the hotel tragedy on Ilha Grande ...
Brazilian rescue workers dug for survivors Saturday after a mudslide buried a luxury hotel filled with New Year's revelers on an island near Rio, killing at least 20 and leaving many others missing.Another landslide in the nearby city of Angra ...
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