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• 'Heist of the century': Brazilian gang hits security vault and police HQ in Paraguay

  25-04-2017 18:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Using automatic rifles, dynamite and anti-aircraft guns, around 50 gangsters turned city into a battle zone before fleeing in speedboats with about $6mBrazilian gangsters have taken armed robbery to a lethal new level with a cross-border attack on a Paraguayan security vault and police headquarters using automatic rifles, dynamite and anti-aircraft guns in what local media have described as “the heist of the century”.
  One police officer was murdered in the assault and three suspects
  
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• A government of death is plundering our ancient Munduruku lands. Help us stop it

  25-04-2017 15:05 via theguardian.com
  
  As the UN forum on indigenous issues meets in New York, we, the Munduruku people of Brazil, demand an end to the destruction of our territoryWe, the Munduruku people, send our thoughts and words to you who live far away. We echo the cry for help from our mother, the forest, and from all the indigenous peoples in Brazil.Our home of Mundurukânia and all 13,000 of our people are threatened by the Brazilian government’s plans to build more than 40 hydroelectric dams in the Tapajós
  
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