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July 29, 2019

Miners Raid Tribe in Brazil, Killing Leader as Amazon Suffers Mass Deforestation by Illegal Loggers
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In northern Brazil, residents of a remote indigenous village say at
least 10 heavily armed gold miners in military uniforms raided their
community last week, stabbing a leader to death. The assault on the