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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
Brazil creates new Indian reservation
- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed a new 3.8 million acre (1.5 million hectare) Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rain forest's logging frontier.
Brazil extends Amazon soy ban
- Grain crushers have extended a two-year-old moratorium on the purchase of soybeans planted in areas of the Amazon rain forest cut down after 2006, Brazil's environment minister said Tuesday.
Brazilian cop denies torturing journalists
- A police officer accused of heading a paramilitary militia has denied any part in the kidnapping and torture of two journalists.