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• Top US adviser to attend Saudi talks in bid to attract support for Ukraine plan

  31-07-2023 22:28
  
  US and allies seek to draw countries such as Brazil and India off the fence and back Kyiv’s proposals for ‘a just and durable peace’Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, is expected to attend a meeting in Saudi Arabia this weekend at which Ukraine and its allies will try to persuade countries from the global south to back Kyiv’s proposals for ending the war.According to officials involved in planning for the meeting, it is primarily aimed at drawing neutral cou
  
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• At least eight dead following alleged revenge attack by São Paulo police

  31-07-2023 19:27
  
  Brazil authorities call for investigation after hundreds of police officers were deployed in response to the killing of an officerAuthorities in Brazil have called for an investigation after a police operation on the coast of São Paulo state left at least eight people dead, in an apparent act of retaliation.About 600 police officers have been deployed across the Baixada Santista region in response to the killing of an officer by drug traffickers in the city of Guarujá last Thursday
  
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• UK farmer donated £100k so Amazon Indigenous meeting could take place

  31-07-2023 12:58
  
  Hylton Murray-Philipson says he contributed to gathering in Brazil because of growing climate threatA last-minute personal donation from a climate-concerned British farmer enabled the meeting of hundreds of Brazil’s Indigenous people to go ahead in the Amazon rainforest last week.Hylton Murray-Philipson, an Eton-educated landowner from Leicestershire, covered a gap in funding of more than £100,000 after another sponsor pulled out of the gathering, which was called by the Kayapo chief
  
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