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OLMOS, Peru, April 4- Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3- Workers ended a two-day strike at the OSX Brasil SA shipyard at Brazil's Port of Acu on Wednesday, after delaying construction and blockading an industrial complex owned by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista. The workers said Acciona failed to pay wages and provided substandard conditions.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3- Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday put off for a week the judgment of a landmark case that will decide how the foreign profits of mining giant Vale SA and other multinationals are treated by tax authorities.
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LONDON, April 4- Stronger manufacturing and services output in China helped lift emerging market business confidence in March, masking slower growth in Brazil, Russia and India, a monthly purchasing managers' survey showed.
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*Client coverage in Brazil seen up by 50 percent this year. *Lender plans to expand in Colombia, is "bullish" on Brazil.
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WASHINGTON, April 3- The U.S. Internal Revenue Service and 3 M Co are fighting over royalty payments from the company's Brazilian unit to its U.S. headquarters in a case that highlights how tax complications often emerge from doing business in Brazil.
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Corn edged higher in choppy trade, stabilizing after three straight losing sessions following last week's U.S. Department of Agriculture report, which surprised investors with estimates of big U.S. corn and wheat stockpiles. At the CBOT, front-month May wheat settled up 25-3/ 4 cents at $6.96- 1/ 2 per bushel, its biggest single-day rally since Sept. 28.
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CARACAS, April 3- Venezuela's acting President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles square off in an April 14 vote to succeed late leader Hugo Chavez. *Maduro entered politics in 2000 as a legislator in the National Assembly, where his combative defense of Chavez's policies made him one of the president's proteges.
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*Corn choppy, trying to stabilize after 13 percent plunge. Corn was choppy and trying to stabilize after three straight losing sessions following last week's U.S. Department of Agriculture report, which surprised investors with estimates of big U.S. corn and wheat stockpiles.
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*Client coverage in Brazil seen up by 50 pct this year. *Plans to expand in Colombia, is "bullish" in Brazil.
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*Client coverage in Brazil seen up by 50 pct this year. *Plans to expand in Colombia, is "bullish" in Brazil.
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*Plentiful coffee from previous Brazil crop-Licht. NEW YORK/ LONDON, April 3- Raw sugar futures were little changed on Wednesday, hovering near the previous session's 2-1/ 2 year low as expectations of ample global supplies weighed, and cocoa futures on ICE sank on pressure from forward West Africa sales and technical selling.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3- Workers extended a strike at the OSX Brasil SA shipyard at Brazil's Port of Acu for a second day on Wednesday, delaying construction and blockading an industrial complex owned by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista. The striking workers allege Acciona failed to pay wages and provided substandard work conditions at the shipyard site.
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*Wheat also up on hope of strong world demand for U.S. supplies. *Corn rises after record loss on bargain-hunting. Corn stabilized after three straight losing sessions following last week's U.S. Department of Agriculture report which surprised investors with estimates of big U.S. corn and wheat stockpiles.
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SAO PAULO, April 3- Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to increase the base of corporate clients it covers in Brazil by 100 to 300 by the end of this year, President and Chief Operating Officer Gary Cohn said on Wednesday.
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"We like Brazil," said Jeff Shen, BlackRock, discussing where he sees the best global plays this year.
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SAO PAULO-- Eight people have been charged in connection with the deadly nightclub fire in southern Brazil that killed 241 people earlier this year, prosecutors said Tuesday. The Jan. 27 fire roared through the crowded, windowless Kiss nightclub in the city of Santa Maria, filling the air with flames and thick, toxic smoke.
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*Plentiful coffee from previous Brazil crop-Licht. May raw sugar futures edged down 0.02 cent or 0.1 percent to 17.57 cents a lb by 1119 GMT, just above Tuesday's 2-1/ 2 year low of 17.50 cents. "Big crops in Thailand, India and Mexico, and the favourable weather in Brazil suggesting a good crop there: all of these factors suggest general bearishness."
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JERUSALEM- Israel pressed Hamas on Wednesday to rein in rocket-firing militants in the Gaza Strip after the most serious outbreak of cross-border hostilities since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war in November.
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UNITED NATIONS- The 193- nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the first treaty on the global arms trade, which seeks to regulate the $70 billion business in conventional arms and keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers.