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Bluefin tuna on edge of extinction, environmentalists warn

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

An international fisheries group set up to protect Atlantic tuna has done the opposite and driven one species of the fish, the bluefin, to the edge of extinction, environmentalists said Thursday. On the eve of a meeting in Brazil of the International ...

Israeli president to visit Brazil just before Iranian leader

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

Israeli President Shimon Peres is to visit Brazil next week, just days before his country's archfoe, Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to also arrive, according to officials. Peres is scheduled to visit Brasilia, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro between November 10 ...

Amazon deforestation slows: Brazil

AFP Global Edition 3 days ago

Brazil lost 400 square kilometers (154 square miles) of Amazon jungle in September, but deforestation slowed by a third compared with the same month last year, according to official data released Wednesday. Environment Minister Carlos Minc said the speed at which the ...

Religion News in Brief

AP News 3 days ago

Religion News in Brief An Ohio village's Christmas parade has been canceled amid concerns over possible lawsuits, expected protests and logistical problems. Amelia Mayor Leroy Ellington said the Amelia Business Association that sponsored the parade for the past few years backed out ...

Lula in London to see queen, seek investment

AFP European Edition 3 days ago

Brazilian President Lula Inacio da Silva arrived in Britain Wednesday for a two-day visit to drum up investment and have an audience with Queen Elizabeth II. Lula will also meet Prime Minister Gordon Brown and receive an award from the prestigious Chatham ...

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies

AP News 4 days ago

Academy says seminal French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at age 100 Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French intellectual was ...

Evangelical march in Brazil draws 1.5 million

AP News 5 days ago

Evangelical march draws 1.5 million for day of worship, music in Brazil's second biggest city About 1.5 million evangelical Christians joined Brazil's annual "March for Jesus" on Monday, an event sponsored by a church whose leaders recently returned after being imprisoned in ...

Searchers find body of missing passenger in Amazon

AP Features 6 days ago

Brazil's air force says rescuers have found the body of the last missing passenger of a small plane that made a forced river landing in the Amazon. The air force says in a statement searchers found the body of Marcelo dos Santos ...

Brazil report: Pilot error likely in 2007 crash

AP News 7 days ago

Brazil air force: Pilot error more likely caused 2007 crash, nation's worst air disaster A military investigation into Brazil's deadliest air disaster reached no conclusion on blame, but officials said Saturday that pilot error rather than mechanical failure was the more likely ...

At least nine survivors in Amazon plane crash

AFP Global Edition 8 days ago

Indigenous tribesmen deep in the world's largest rainforest have found at least nine survivors after a Brazilian military transport plane crash-landed in a river in the Amazon, the air force said. One person on the flight that went down on Thursday in ...

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