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Indigenous protesters on Friday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through their lands to carry grains to a northern port in the Amazon. The 1,000-km (620-mile) Ferrograo railway is backed by farmers and grain companies who say it would reduce reliance on roads and lower costs for transporting soy from the farm state of Mato Grosso to the river ports in the Amazon basin. But Munduruku and Kayapo Indigenous communities say they have not bee...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Indigenous protesters on Friday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Indigenous protesters on Friday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Indigenous protesters on Friday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Indigenous protesters on Friday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through their lands to carry grains to a northern port in the Amazon.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Indigenous protesters on Friday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Indigenous protesters on Friday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel is offering a "Green Nobel" prize, unrelated to the Nobel Foundation, to environmental cham...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel is offering a "Green Nobel" prize, unrelated to the Nobel Foundation, to environmental cham...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's Congress on Thursday overturned a presidential veto that had struck down the core of a bill to limit Indigenous land claims, setting up a likely clash at the Supreme Court. Indigenous groups had supported President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's veto, while the bill had the backing of the powerful farm lobby. In a joint session of both chambers, lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to annul Lula's veto of a policy limiting claims to ancestral lands where Indi...