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...Janne Müller-Wieland was dropped from the German Olympic hockey team in May, despite being captain and having led the national squad to a bronze medal at the Rio Games....
...São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília echoed to cries of protest on Wednesday night as millions of citizens banged pots and pans from windows and balconies and flashed their lights on and off, shouting...
...complicated tax system into a single universal tax of 20 per cent and to reduce the primary budget deficit — the gap not including interest payments — to zero by 2020, a challenging target, says Jimena Blanco...
...Value from the vine MARKS AND SPENCER Sparkling Salton, Rio Carnival Sparkling Glera NV Serra Gaúcha, Brazil £9.50 Yalumba, Craft 3 Sparkling Brut NV, South Australia £12 Whites Murviedro, Las Falleras...
...I hiked to Laguna de los Tres past waterfalls and water meadows where the navy-blue lake was ringed by towering summits — Fitz Roy, Saint-Exupéry, Cerro Poincenot — and where the Rio Blanco glacier was shedding...
...idyll with flocks of young goats frolicking in emerald meadows among gleaming towers of limestone, before a zigzag cobbled track took us down into Montejaque, one of the most picturesque of all the pueblos blancos...
...“I certainly hope the Lava Jato case will not end with Lula,” said Ivar Hartmann, professor at FGV Direito Rio, a law school in Rio de Janeiro....
...Enrique L Rios Jr, 25 Rios was from Brooklyn, according to his Facebook page....
...More recently, Zijin’s $1.5bn Río Blanco copper project has stalled owing to community conflicts....
...Canada’s IAMGold is eyeing the Quimsacocha gold, copper and silver project, and International Minerals of Canada is negotiating over the country’s Rio Blanco gold and silver project....
...Zijin Corsortium is investing $1.4bn in the Río Blanco copper project, which has a troubled and violent recent history of community conflict, and Shougang Hierro, is putting $1bn into Peru’s only iron ore...
...Ask for Alberto Blanco (tel: +58 212 961 5950; +58 414 302 7673) or Efrain Torres (tel: +58 414 116 7070)....
...Blanco ■ 2001 – Grand Decoration of Honor from the Republic of Austria ■ 1975, 1986 – South Korea’s Order of Service Merit Source: South Korean foreign ministry/FT research...
...On a more local level, protests against specific mining projects have caused delays, for example to Monterrico Metals’ planned Rio Blanco mine....
..., analyst John Meyer insisted Monterrico’s Rio Blanco copper project could one day rival Antofagasta’s massive Los Pelambres mine in Chile....
...The conflict at Rio Blanco follows several similar confrontations....
...Monterrico Metals slipped 3.2 per cent to 244p in spite of news even though analysts suggested that its Rio Blanco project in Peru had the potential to be the world’s largest copper mine....
...Recent examples of anti-mining protests include objections to the Rio Blanco copper project in Peru, owned by Monterrico Metals of London, and hostility encountered by Newmont, the US gold producer, in Indonesia...
...The delay of a feasibility study at its Rio Blanco project in Peru sent Monterrico Metals 16.2 per cent lower to 322p....
...He might have said: this is a job for Kathleen Blanco, the governor of Louisiana. With a little help from Washington. And that, alas, probably would not have been sufficient....
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