AP - Striking police officers in the northeastern city of Salvador on Thursday evacuated the state legislative building they occupied in protest for more than a week.
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2012-02-09 22:00
Brazil: Striking police leave occupied building (AP)
2012-02-09 22:00
Brazil files injunction against Twitter (AP)
AP - An attempt to block Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make the Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plans to censor content at governments' requests.
2012-02-09 05:21
Haitians bound for Brazil languish in Peru's Amazon (Reuters)
Reuters - Nearly 300 Haitians fleeing the poverty of their earthquake-ravaged homeland have been stuck for a month in the Peruvian Amazon, where a gate to what they saw as a better life in Brazil has abruptly closed.
2012-02-09 05:21
Brazilian troops tighten security at police strike (AP)
AP - Troops tightened the security ring around a Brazilian state legislature building Wednesday, seeking to step up pressure on the hundreds of striking police barricaded inside as the city's Carnival festivities approach.
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