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Brazil's Bolsonaro fuels spat with Europe as Amazon wildfires rage
Aug 31, 2019 02:06Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday Europe has "nothing to teach" the country about preserving the environment, as data showed thousands of new fires were ignited on the first day of a burning ban.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro fuels spat with Macron over Amazon fires
Aug 29, 2019 02:47Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday repeated a demand for French leader Emmanuel Macron to withdraw recent remarks, accusing France and Germany of "buying" the Latin American country's sovereignty with Amazon fire aid.
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Brazil harshly rejects G7 aid offer to fight Amazon fires
Aug 27, 2019 06:40The Brazilian government has inhospitably rejected a 20-million-dollar aid package offered by the Group of Seven (G7) countries to help fight raging fires in the Brazilian Amazon forest.
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Brazil ramps up fight on Amazon fires, new blazes ignite
Aug 25, 2019 10:38Brazil on Sunday deployed two Hercules C-130 aircraft to douse fires devouring parts of the Amazon rainforest, as hundreds of new blazes were ignited ahead of nationwide protests over the destruction.
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Bolsonaro says critics of raging Amazon fires are colonialists
Aug 23, 2019 04:13Paris and the United Nations called Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil's right-wing president accused his French counterpart of having a "colonialist mentality" over the issue.
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US formally endorses Bolsonaro’s son as Brazil ambassador to Washington
Aug 10, 2019 05:25Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says the United States has formally endorsed the appointment of his son, Eduardo, as the Latin American country’s ambassador to Washington.
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Iran accounts for a third of Brazil’s corn exports: Official
Jul 29, 2019 01:26An Iranian official has confirmed reports suggesting that Brazil ships a bulk of its annual corn export, around nine million tons, to Iran, saying sanctions imposed by the United States would effectively fail to hamper a massive amount of trade between the two countries.
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Iranian ships stranded in Brazil start refueling following court order: IRNA
Jul 27, 2019 07:47Two Iranian grain vessels stranded in the Brazilian port of Paranagua have begun refueling following a Brazilian court order compelling the state oil company of Petrobras to provide fuel the ships.
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Brazil judge orders Petrobras to refuel stranded Iranian ships
Jul 25, 2019 14:22Brazil’s highest judicial authority has ordered Petrobras to refuel two Iranian grain ships after the Brazilian state-run oil company refused to assist the vessels citing the United States sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic.
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China must avoid a role in destruction of Amazon
Jul 24, 2019 11:21Beijing’s image would be tarnished if it does ‘dirty business’ with the pro-US Bolsonaro government in Brazil, cautions investigative Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar in his article for ‘Asia Times’, titled: “China must avoid a role in destruction of Amazon”.