Alsamh
Special to Saudi Gazette
BRASILIA — A container filled with 20 tons of assorted hospital waste from Spain was seized in the port of Itaja?, Santa Catarina, in the south of Brazil last week.
Used, dirty and smelly sheets, towels, carpets, (...)
Special to Saudi Gazette
BRASILIA — A 70-year-old woman, Maria Selma dos Santos, was arrested last week in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, under suspicion that she had ordered the murder of her 51-year-old son, José Fernandes dos Santos.
The (...)
Alsamh
Special to Saudi Gazette
SAO PAULO— A Brazilian man took his 8-year-old son along with him when he went to rob a bank in the town of Guaratinguet?, 187 kilometers from Sao Paulo, by using dynamite to blow up the bank's automated teller (...)
Alsamh
Special to Saudi Gazette
SAO PAULO — The carcass of an old Boeing 737, that once belonged to the now bankrupt Brazilian airline VASP, got stuck on the streets of Sao Paulo this week after being sold in an auction.
Sold for R$140,000 (...)
The veteran Nasserite politician Hamdeen Sabahi, 58, who was twice elected to parliament by his party Karama, or Dignity, is one of 13 candidates for the presidency of Egypt.
Egypt will be holding its first post-Mubarak presidential poll on May (...)
The Islamist candidate for president of Egypt, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fatouh, criticized the candidacy of Omar Suleiman, the former intelligence chief of deposed President Hosni Mubarak.
“Men like Omar Suleiman and Ahmed Shafiq are crazy to run for (...)