Brazilians get tough new gun law
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Tough anti-gun laws take effect in Brazil, to curb what the UN says is the world's fourth-highest murder rate.
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To enforce its new law banning religious symbols from public schools, the Ministry of National Education has decided to get tough.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - A Brazilian soldier with the  U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturday  when peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdown  on armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
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the second UN peacekeeper to be shot in Haiti over the weekend. On Saturday a Brazilian was hurt in the capital
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- This building is the seventh circle of hell for anyone whose skin crawls when viewing a tangle of slithering snakes, whose spine stiffens when standing next to a teeming box of white mice, whose imagination turns baroque when contemplating the potential effects of reptile venom...
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Cleveland's mayor called on the state Monday to create a new law that would prohibit anyone under age 21 from possessing a firearm.
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Brazilian police step up patrols after armed groups clash in  Rio's slums, leaving seven dead over the weekend.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 30, 2004 - Residents of the nation&#39;s capital would be able to own handguns and other firearms under a House-passed bill acclaimed by its supporters as a victory for Second Amendment rights
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Brazil says it will crank up  uranium enrichment after getting the green light from UN nuclear inspectors.
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A growing number of Brazilians are finding it increasingly difficult to get good jobs in big metropolitan areas like SÃ£o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and are looking elsewhere.
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Fear of fresh conflict as renegade general turns guns on government forces.
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A Brazilian soldier with the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturday when peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdown on armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
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The Brazilian government is facing criticism from Latin American countries for its failure to abandon the production of cluster bombs.
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WASHINGTON  - Washington is likely to help Brazilin its plan to shoot down planes suspected of smuggling drugsafter determining it has enough safeguards to preventaccidental killings, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Police armed with rifles  and wearing flak jackets manned checkpoints across Rio de  Janeiro on Thursday to prevent muggings and other violence as  tourists flocked to the ocean city for the holiday season.
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OSLO, Dec. 6 (IPS) - Many of the weapons that give Brazil the  world's highest gun death rate outside of conflict are  foreign made and traceable, reveals a new report by Norwegian and  Brazilian organisations.