Brazil raids Amazon timber mills
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Brazilian police seize a big load of illegally logged lumber as officials start new  moves to tackle Amazon deforestation.
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Federal agents on Tuesday raided the offices of a food processing plant suspected of employing hundreds of illegal workers who used Social Security numbers that belonged to other people or were made up, authorities said.
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Burning of the Amazon and other forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil&#39;s greenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of the world&#39;s leading polluters
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By Leonardo Pedro BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb deathsquads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leaderand two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rubber tappers, fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main tributaries.
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At least 14 people are arrested in Brazil as part of a series of anti-drug raids across six states.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new status to protect them from unsustainable logging.
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Twelve people, including a young boy,  are killed as Brazilian police mount an anti-drugs raid on a  Rio slum.
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Nestle  operations in  Germany were raided last week as part of a German cartel office  investigation of suspected price-fixing by chocolate makers,  the company said on Monday.
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Brazil mounts a tight security operation ahead of US President Bush's visit to Sao Paulo.
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More than 90 people in Brazil face possible charges after a two-year inquiry into money laundering.
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By Tiago Pariz and Daniela Machado BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian congressionalprobe accused 91 people, including a former central bank chiefand an ex-mayor of Sao Paulo, on Tuesday of involvement insuspected laundering of money from drug trafficking, smugglingand other crimes.
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Police on Friday formally accused two U.S. pilots in connection with Brazil's deadliest air disaster, saying their "lack of caution" at the controls of an executive jet played a role in the collision over the Amazon that killed 154 people.
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ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun on Tuesday and vented  outrage that Brazil's government has only acted to stem rising  violence in the rain forest after the murder of the renowned  foreign activist.
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Nestle  operations in Germany were raided last week as part of a German cartel office investigation of suspected price-fixing by chocolate makers, the company said on Monday.
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Police detained 16 activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday after launching a protest against Brazil&#039;s largest soy exporter at an Amazon River port.
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BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.