Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff began a state visit to China on Tuesday at the head of a push by Latin America's biggest economy for more favorable economic ties with its biggest trading partner.
Debt-heavy Portugal's hopes of avoiding a financial bailout were fading fast Wednesday as the country's borrowing rates continued their upward spiral to hit new euro-era highs.
President Obama, who has seen a highly anticipated tour of Latin America overshadowed by events in Libya, held up Brazil on Sunday as a model for the Middle East as the region grapples with a wave of pro-democracy uprisings.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu says Japan's nuclear crisis will influence the locations of new U.S. nuclear reactors.
President Barack welcomed Brazil's rise as an economic power and said the United States would be an eager customer for its oil exports as he opened a Latin America tour Saturday against the backdrop of an escalating Western military showdown with Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.
Colombian singer Shakira and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff are pledging to improve the welfare of children in Brazil.
Colombian singer Shakira and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff are pledging to improve the welfare of children in Brazil.
The U.S. has no plans to halt aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti in spite of a crisis over who will be the nation's next leader but does insist that the president's chosen successor be dropped from the race, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.
Landless activists have invaded three farms and several government buildings in Brazil and vow more seizures to pressure Brazil's new president into speeding redistribution of land.
