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Phenomenon of Ambidextrous Individuals Still Startles Scientists
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jun 2010

Leonardo da Vinci could work with his both hands. He used to draw with his right hand and write with his left one. Jimmy Hendricks, the rock musician, could play right-handed guitar with his left hand turning it upside down. He used to place the strings backwards so they would be positioned the same way as on a regular guitar.

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Shanghai Cooperation Organization to Accept Two Nuclear Enemies
Ivan Tulyakov - Pravda, 14 Jun 2010

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization incorporates Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. If Pakistan and India join the SCO, the organization will become a structure incorporating most populated areas of the world – China and India – as well as the largest state in the world – Russia. Iran was also seeking the SCO membership. However, it became clear June 10 that it will not be allowed to receive it. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is angry with Russia and China for their support of new sanctions against his nation.

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(Portuguese) Estamos Todos Com MV Rachel Corrie
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda, 7 Jun 2010

Israel vai cometer outro massacre? Haverá um ato de pirataria no alto mar? Tel Aviv vai torpedear o navio MV Rachel Corrie, um navio irlandês que viaja para Gaza, sob a égide do Direito Internacional das Nações Unidas (Resolução 1860)?

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Brazil and Cuba Become an Example of Cooperation in Vaccines
Pravda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2010

The news is already circulating around the world of a study that researchers from five developing countries, in collaboration with the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health of Canada (MRC) published today [13 May 2010] in the journal Nature Biotechnology, puts Brazil and Cuba as models in manufacturing low-cost drugs to poor people.

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Russia Seriously Concerned about NATO’s Intention to Become Global Gendarme
Vadim Trukhachev – Pravda, 10 May 2010

Russia stands strongly against the development of the North Atlantic Alliance into a global block similar to the UN. However, this is exactly how many NATO officials see their future. “Russia does not consider the present-day NATO as a threat, although we are concerned about its possible development. Russia does not want NATO as a global organization, we do not want NATO to become a global gendarme,” Russia’s ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said.

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(Portuguese) BRIC: Rumo a Um Mundo Multilateral, Mais Democrático e Justo
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda, 26 Apr 2010

Os líderes do Brasil, Rússia, Índia e RP China, as quatro maiores economias emergentes, estiveram reunidos esta quinta-feira [15 Apr 2010] para a Segunda Cúpula BRIC em Brasilia. Os assuntos discutidos foram maioritariamente económicos, com as áreas de energia e infra-estruturas de maior relevo.

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RUSSIA AND USA GIVE START A NEW START
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey - Pravda, 12 Apr 2010

The sticky issue here is the planned missile defence shield in territories NATO moved on into after having promised Russia it would not. First the lie, then to rub it in, the insult. Setting up, or planning to set up, missile defence shields, whether in Poland or in the Czech Republic or in Romania or in Bulgaria while negotiating an arms reduction treaty is like shaking the other’s hand with the right hand while the left conceals a knife behind the back.

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(PORTUGUESE) 46 VELINHAS VERMELHAS… DE SANGUE
Celso Lungaretti - Pravda, 12 Apr 2010

Ao completarem-se 46 anos da quebra da normalidade institucional no Brasil, mergulhando o País nas trevas e barbárie durante duas décadas, é oportuno evocarmos o que realmente foi essa nada branda ditadura de 1964/85, defendida hoje com tamanha desfaçatez pelos jornalões, seus editorialistas e articulistas.

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(PORTUGUESE) EUA E SEUS DIREITOS HUMANOS: 640 TENTATIVAS DE MATAR FIDEL
Prensa Latina – Pravda, 5 Apr 2010

Agora que os Estados Unidos e seus aliados, em sua campanha midiática contra Cuba, se proclamam defensores da vida humana, os cubanos recordam que isso pode ser desmentido, entre outras coisas, pelas 640 tentativas de assassinar Fidel Castro. Não é segredo para ninguém que este insólito número de atentados contra a vida do dirigente de […]

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VEGETATIVE CURES FOR CANCER
Pravda, 5 Apr 2010

There is a great deal of factors that may cause cancer, and not all of them are known. Yet, doctors know some of them very well. Bad nutrition is one of them. Cabbage Out of all vegetable, cabbage is especially rich in specific anti-cancer substances that block the development of the disease at all stages. […]

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NATO’S AFGHANISTAN: THE CHAMPION OF DRUGS PRODUCTION
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda, 5 Apr 2010

We really have to take our hats off to NATO. This clique of arms lobbyists and defender of jobs for the boys invaded Afghanistan in 2001 on the pretext that Osama bin Laden was using the country to attack western interests. Almost a decade after the Taleban declared war on drugs production, NATO’s Afghanistan is […]

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PERESTROIKA: STRANGE, DRAMATIC, AMAZING AND TERRIFYING PERIOD OF RUSSIAN HISTORY
Pravda, 24 Mar 2010

On March 11, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. No visionary could predict that his years in office would bring Russia Perestroika, a strange, dramatic, amazing and terrifying historical period filled with great hopes and deadly disappointments. Twenty five years have passed since […]

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(PORTUGUESE) DEPOIS DE ELEGER DILMA PRESIDENTE, LULA VAI CORRER MUNDO PARA CHEGAR À ONU
Antonio Carlos Lacerda - Pravda Brasil, 24 Mar 2010

Depois que o jornal inglês The Times disse que o presidente do Brasil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, que recentemente brincou estar "contaminado pelo vírus da paz", estaria avaliando uma tentativa de se tornar o próximo secretário-geral da ONU, cresceram as especulações da imprensa a respeito dessa possibilidade. Tanto cresceram que o presidente já estaria […]

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SINGAPORE: FROM ASIAN DUMP TO IMPECCABLE CLEANNESS IN 50 YEARS
Pravda, 28 Feb 2010

What did Singapore officials have to do to turn a dump into the cleanest Asian city and one of the most flourishing countries in the world in as little as 50 years? Russians became frequent guests in this city-state on the Equator. Wealthy Russians are looking into buying houses on the beach, while politicians and […]

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LAUGHTER REMAINS BIGGEST MYSTERY IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Pravda, 11 Feb 2010

Man continues to unravel mysteries of the universe, the macro and the micro worlds. Modern science has achieved incredible progress in many fields, but it seems that a human being still remains the biggest mystery of all. The human brain is an extremely complicated organ. Scientists are only about to unravel just a few of […]

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COLOMBIA’S MASS GRAVES
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda, 2 Feb 2010

The dark history of President Alvaro Uribe is well known for its seedy connections to narco-traffickers, terrorists and murderers. When Mayor of the City of Medellin, narco-terrorist death squads sent thousands of civilians to the most horrific deaths. Now, mass graves with thousands of bodies have been uncovered. Colombia is covered in a fine white […]

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(PORTUGUESE) MUSEU AFRO BRASIL REVELA OUTRO LADO DA HISTÓRIA DO PAÍS
Pravda, 21 Nov 2009

Fica difícil descrever com palavras a sensação de conhecer mais de perto sobre um lado da história do Brasil que durante anos foi reprimido. Esta semana, em homenagem ao Dia da Consciência Negra, comemorado hoje [Sexta-feira, 20 nov 2009], a reportagem fez uma visita ao Museu Afro Brasil, em São Paulo, local que guarda um […]

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(PORTUGUESE) RELATÓRIO DA FAO DESTACA EXPERIENCIA BRASILEIRA NO COMBATE À FOME
Pravda, 15 Nov 2009

O Brasil figura na lista de 16 países do mundo que alcançaram o objetivo de reduzir o número de pessoas que padecem de fome, informou nesta quarta-feira, em Roma, a FAO (Organização das Nações Unidas para a Agricultura e a Alimentação).Em um relatório intitulado "Caminhos para o sucesso", a experiência brasileira –iniciada em 2003 com […]

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(PORTUGUESE) NOAM CHOMSKY: AMÉRICA LATINA É HOJE O LUGAR MAIS ESTIMULANTE DO MUNDO
Pravda, 4 Oct 2009

Em entrevista ao La Jornada, Noam Chomsky fala sobre a América Latina, definindo-a como uma das únicas regiões do mundo onde há uma resistência real ao poder do império. "Pela primeira vez em 500 anos há movimentos rumo a uma verdadeira independência e separação do mundo imperial. Países que historicamente estiveram separados estão começando a […]

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YES GEORGE, YOU SERVED YOUR MASTER WELL
David R. Hoffman - Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru, 14 Jan 2009

Now George it is over. Your Faustian deal gave you eight years of illegal and undeserved power. And did you make the most of it! You stole elections without hesitation, you lied without compunction, you started illegal wars without any consideration for international law, you shredded the Constitution without any respect for the check-and-balance system, […]

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(PORTUGUESE) EXTERMÍNIO JUDEU: CRIME OU GLÓRIA?
José Roberto Orquiza – port/pravda.ru, 10 Jan 2009

Quantos precisam morrer? Quantos precisam ser dilacerados em Gaza para a humanidade acordar? Mais que mulheres, crianças, velhos, civis quaisquer os judeus estão provando uma insensatez extraordinária. Contra os militantes do Hamas matam, destroem, assassinam, exterminam como se a ação programada fosse compreensível. Se a insanidade tivesse lugar em tempos bárbaros, no meio de manifestações […]

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