The men’s national team of the Arab country will play a friendly match against the Brazilian handball team on Saturday in Santo André.
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In a report on the country, the International Monetary Fund hails government measures taken to keep the economy from overheating, but claims that reform is needed in sectors such as social security.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has shipped to the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, 19 pieces found in the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. The return is part of an agreement signed last year.
The Dubai airline signed a partnership agreement with the Spanish team for five years.
The organisation headquartered in Davos is going to promote a meeting in the United Arab Emirates in October to discuss a ‘Global Agenda’. Among the themes are food safety and financial stability.
A group of children in the country flew kites in Gaza to break the world kite-flying record, which belonged to China.
The country was visited by 4.2 million people in the first half of this year. There was growth in the number of visitors from many European countries, despite the continent’s dire economic situation.
Aircraft maker profited US$ 99.5 mn in the second quarter, as against US$ 77.5 mn in the same period of last year. In comparison with the first three months of 2011, however, there was a decline.
World Economic Forum will have its regional edition for the Middle East and North Africa from October 21st to 23rd. The meeting will have the ‘Arab Spring’ as its backdrop.
The Brazilian government will send 38,000 tonnes to Somalia and another 15,000 tonnes to refugee camps in Ethiopia.
The rate concerns the first half of 2011 when compared with the same period of 2010. Foreign sales reached US$ 2.746 billion. Arabs are among the leading buyers.
The Economic and Social Development Council will have partnerships with Algeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to exchange experiences and promote representative exchange.
Procable Energy and Telecommunciations, from São Paulo, should open, together with the Japanese Fujikura, a cable production unit in Rio Grande do Sul.
The Brazilian oil company’s foreign currency debt rating has gone from Baa1 to A3. The company claims that this will enable it to raise funds in better conditions.
