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• ‘She had a knack for making people smile’: a clown’s life cut short on Amazon trek

  19-01-2024 12:15
  Julieta Hernández Martínez brought joy as she cycled across Brazil en route to her native Venezuela. Friends remember her inspiring life, not her cruel deathMaria Kazé remembers the first time she saw Julieta Hernández Martínez and her orange bicycle one evening in January 2022 at the coach station in Picos, a rural town in Brazil’s dusty north-east. “I was struck by her brilliance, her bravery. I suddenly felt small before this extraordinary woman,
  
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• Brazil police make new arrest in Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira murder investigation

  19-01-2024 03:30
  Federal police say the latest suspect is considered right-hand man to alleged mastermind of the murdersBrazilian police have arrested another suspect over the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, the justice and public security minister, Flávio Dino, has announced.Phillips, a British journalist, and Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert, were ambushed and shot dead in the western Amazon on 5 June 2022 while returning from a reporting trip near the remote Javari valley. Continue rea
  
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