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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call "the death of the river," they say they could feel it coming. The birds stopped singing, the air grew heavy, and an ...
News Brazil » Minas Gerais » People: Brazil's Minas Gerais state hit by more rain as flooding death toll rises to 59
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Residents in Brazil's Minas Gerais state faced blocked roads, closed shops and streets under water on Thursday following more heavy rain overnight as the death toll from recent ...
News Brazil » Minas Gerais » People: 38 people die in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck in Brazil
A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 38 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said. The Minas Gerais fire department, which ...
News Brazil » Minas Gerais » People: Floods ravage southeastern Brazil and kill 46 as rescuers race to find the missing
JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil — Families of those killed in the devastating floods in southeastern Brazil began burying the dead on Wednesday, as the death toll climbed to at least 46 in the state of Minas ...
News Brazil » Minas Gerais » People: Brazil court suspends operations at Sigma Lithium’s sole producing mine
A Brazilian court has suspended environmental permits and mining operations at Sigma Lithium’s (SGML) Grota do Cirilo complex amid a dispute over its potential effects on a nearby traditional ...
News Brazil » Minas Gerais » People: 22 people die in fiery crash between passenger bus, truck in Brazil
SAO PAULO — A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 22 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said. The local fire department, which ...