 Samba! Rio wins right to host the 2016 Olympics
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 03.10.2009 9:51  62 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Obama, Barack Obama, Michelle, Tokyo, Center, International, Summit, Chicago, Olympics, Olympic, Luke, Committee, International Olympic, Olympic Committee, Michelle Obama, Janeiro
 AP - The country's president was blunt. "It is," Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said, "Brazil's time."
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| Manila moves to boost liquidity after strom wreckage
03.10.2009 9:41 24 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Saturday, Manila, Philippine, MANILA
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered on Saturday a one-year deferment in repayment of loans provided by state pension funds, part of liquidity-boosting measures to protect the economy following massive typhoon devastation. Arroyo said at a disaster briefing that the one-year postponement of salary and housing loans can free up to 32 billion pesos ($679 million) in liquidity. She said she would ask the central bank to set up a five-year special rediscounting window to help...
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| Signs of thaw in Honduras standoff
03.10.2009 9:41 39 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Honduras, Juba, Manuel, President Manuel, Roberts, Brazilian, Embassy, Brazilian Embassy
Interim President Roberto Micheletti told reporters that a dialogue is "beginning" between his supporters and those of President Manuel Zelaya, who was forced from office on June 28 by a military-backed coup and is now holed up in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa. "We are having talks with different sectors officially, with people from Mr. Zelaya's side and with others," Micheletti said Friday outside the presidential...
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| Rio de Janeiro wins out as host of 2016 Olympics
03.10.2009 9:41 35 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Obama, Barack Obama, South, Rogen, America, South America, Tech, International, Summit, Brazil, Chicago, Copenhagen, Olympic, Committee, International Olympic, Olympic Committee, Madrid, Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Swaying International Olympic Committee votes with the argument that South America has never hosted an Olympic games before, Brazil's sun-drenched Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics, holding out against last-minute lobbying by President Barack Obama for his adopted home city of Chicago. Tens of thousands of ecstatic Brazilians, crowded along the city's famed Copacabana beach, erupted in cheers and dancing when the news was announced shortly before 1 p.m. local time, even as crowds in Chicago and the other defeated cities, Madrid and Tokyo, trudged home in disappointment. The announcement by IOC President Jacques Rogge in Copenhagen came...
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| Analysis: Chicago's loss is a blow to Obama, too
(AP)
03.10.2009 9:13 81 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: President, Obama, Barack Obama, Games, Michelle, Tokyo, Summit, Chicago, Olympics, Olympic, Michelle Obama, Janeiro, Olympic Games
 AP - OK, so it wasn't health care, climate change or war. Still, President Barack Obama's high-profile failure to win the Olympics for Chicago could feed negative narratives already nipping at his heels — that he's a better talker than closer, more celebrity than statesman.
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