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- Vale confident will win Brazil double tax case-CEO
 RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian iron ore miner Vale is confident it will win a dispute over taxes the government claims the company owes on earnings abroad, CEO Murilo Ferreira said on Friday. The government has ordered Vale to pay 30.5 billion reais ($15.19 billion) in tax on profits from its foreign subsidiaries. The company said it already paid the taxes to foreign governments and that Brazil's claim is a form of illegal double taxation. Vale, along with other companies and industry associations, is disputing the back taxes in Brazil's highest court. ...
- Lots of flow
 Chelsea's Brazilian defender David Luiz attends a training session on the eve of their UEFA Champions League final football match vs FC Bayern Munich in Germany.
- Missing Brazilian professor located
A professor from Brazil, who recently had a liver transplant, has been located after disappearing in Memphis this week, Memphis police announced this morning.
- Brazil Navy investigates new oil spill off coast
BRASILIA (Reuters) - An oil spill was discovered off Brazil's coast near the country's Espirito Santo state, Brazil's Navy said on Thursday, the latest in a series of spills that have raised questions about the safety of a massive expansion of the country's oil production capacity. The Navy said it has sent a team to investigate and has no immediate estimate of the leak's size. Petrobras informed Ibama, Brazil's environmental protection agency, of the problem on Wednesday, said a press spokeswoman for the agency in Vitoria, Espirito Santo's capital. ...
- Brazil judge sentences Twitter user
A federal judge has sentenced a former law student to 17 months in prison for using Twitter to incite prejudice and discrimination against people from Brazil's impoverished northeast.
- Miel and Bombasha make Urbanspoon's high-end list
Two Nashville eateries earned a spot on Urbanspoon's list of "America’s most popular high-end restaurants."
Bombasha Brazilian Steakhouse and Miel both made the list of 250 top restaurants across the nation, put together by the popular restaurant recommendation app Urbanspoon. The list was compiled using millions of reviews from professional food critics, the Urbanspoon community and diners.
Click here to check out the full list.
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