Officials arrested for Amazon logging
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Brazilian police arrested 18 people accused of allowing illegal logging in the Amazon rain forest and were searching for 19 others, including environmental protection agents, the environment minister said.
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By GORDON JACKSON  FOLKSTON -- Despite the arrests of at least nine people suspected of setting arson wildfires in the region the past month, firefighters have been repeatedly called to extinguish suspicious blazes in the region.
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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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Ecuador investigates claims that up to 15 Amazonian tribespeople have been killed by illegal loggers.
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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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China has arrested two labor bureau officials for their alleged links to slave labor in brick kilns, amid reports Friday that kiln bosses were hiding child laborers and charging ransoms for their release.
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A Seattle man has been arrested in what the Justice Department described as its first case against someone accused of using file-sharing digital data to commit identity theft.
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Brazilian authorities said they raided an Amazon plantation where more than 1,000 laborers were found working 14-hour days in horrendous conditions cutting sugar cane for ethanol production.
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This steamy city at the mouth of the Amazon river is a haven for pirates Â the digital kind who copy CDs and DVDs by the thousands for illegal sidewalk sales.
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Missing canoeist John Darwin and his wife have been charged with further offences, police reveal.
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A crackdown on the poaching of rare abalone and sturgeon nabbed 17 suspects Thursday in what state officials called one of the largest such busts in California history.
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By Erin Smith, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 24--CENTER -- Two Center men were arrested Thursday in conjunction with a drug sting here last summer and more arrests are expected.
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MADRID, Oct 13 (IPS) - The seizure of 33 tons of wood from a highly   endangered species of tree from Brazil and the arrest of six  individuals  implicated in the illegal imports to Spain was  hailed by environmental  activists here Wednesday.
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Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year, officials said Thursday.
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A security guard who worked at a development where a series of fires burned several homes has been arrested and charged in the case, a source close to the investigation said Thursday.
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Chinese police have captured a man accused of holding workers in virtual slavery, state media reported on Sunday amid a national scandal over rural teenagers and men forced to work in brutal, furnace-like brick kilns.
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Venezuelan authorities seized 2.5 tons of cocaine bound for Africa and arrested nine suspects including four federal police officers and a U.S. citizen, the military said Sunday.