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The Brazilian and the French presidents on Tuesday announced a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in the Amazon, including parts of the rainforest in neighboring French Guiana. The two ...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's government said on Friday that French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted an invitation from his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and will visit ...
He instead sent France's ambassador to Brazil, representing its Amazonian territory of French Guiana. Deforestation in Lula’s first year in office fell by about half, to a five-year low.
France invites Brazil to participate at the G8 Summit in Evian. [6] 2004: Creation of the Action Against Hunger and Poverty by initiative of Presidents Lula and Chirac; Creation of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti. [6] 2005: Year of Brazil in France. [6] 2008: Brazil and France enter a strategic alliance. [2] 2009: Year of ...
Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) [b] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication led to the pilots inadvertently stalling the Airbus A330 .
French invasions in Brazil date back to the earliest days of Portuguese colonization up until the end of the 19th century. [ 1 ] The attacks, initially as part of Francis I of France's challenge to the Treaty of Tordesillas , encouraged the practice of looting for the barter of brazilwood and supported the attempts to colonize the coast of Rio ...
France is the world's No. 2 arms exporter, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, with its sales surging over recent years notably to buyers in India, Qatar ...
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