American Nun Shot Dead in Brazil's Amazon
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BELEM, Brazil  - A 74-year-old American nun was  shot to death early on Saturday in Brazil's Amazon jungle,  where she worked for decades to defend peasant farmers and the  rain forest from illegal loggers and ranchers.
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HELSINKI, Nov 5 (IPS) - In Brazil rubber tappers living in the Amazon  forest are locked in deadly conflicts with timber loggers and big  agribusiness companies, with up to ten activists killed every  year, NGOs working in the country say.
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A nun shot four times at the Somali hospital where she worked forgave her killers as she lay dying, colleagues said Monday in the wake of her slaying, which has focused attention on Islamic radicalism in the Horn of Africa.
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Thousands of Amazon peasants flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun Tuesday and vented anger that Brazil's government only acted to stem rising violence in the rain forest after the murder of the renowned foreign activist.
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Brazilian farmers attend the funeral of a campaigning US nun who fought to protect the Amazon jungle.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - A business jet piloted by two United States citizens may have been at the wrong altitude when it crossed paths with a commercial airliner that crashed last week in the Amazon, killing all 155 people on board, Brazil's defense minister said on Wednesday.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian police on Friday charged two U.S. pilots with endangering air safety in the crash of a Brazilian airliner over the Amazon rain forest in which all 154 people on board were killed.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Searchers found dozens of bodies at the Amazon site of Brazil's worst airplane disaster on Tuesday and started to fly remains to the capital as investigators tried to determine how two planes collided.
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The gunman convicted of killing American nun and rain forest defender Dorothy Stang told the jury at his retrial Monday that he shot her out of fear and rage, court officials said.
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A 92-year-old woman was shot to death Tuesday after she fired at three narcotics officers trying to serve a warrant at her house, officials said.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Honduran authorities say at least 23 people have been killed in an attack by gunmen on a public bus. The shooting took place in a northern Atlantic city (Chamelecon) about 125 miles north
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BOGOTA, Colombia, DEC. 24, 2004 .- Leftist guerrillas shot and killed a parish priest in a jungle area of northwest Colombia, Reuters reported.
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A US Catholic missionary and human rights worker is shot dead in the Brazilian Amazon after receiving death threats.
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Police searched Sunday for four people suspected in the slaying of a 74-year-old American nun - the most prominent activist gunned down in the Amazon since the 1988 murder of Chico Mendes.
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BRAZIL RIO DE JANEIRO -- A federal judge indicted two US pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers yesterday in Brazil's worst air disaster. A Boeing jet plunged into the Amazon rain forest in September after crashing in mid-air with an executive jet, killing 154. Pilots Joseph Lepore, 42, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, 34, of Westhampton Beach, ...
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Leftist guerrillas shot andkilled a Catholic parish priest in a jungle area of northwestColombia, church officials said on Friday.
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USULUTAN, El Salvador -- Police say an angry mother-in-law was behind the slaying of a popular US union leader who was shot in the back days before he was to meet with members of Central America's growing labor movement.