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Iraq: Iran's competing power centres are creating havoc in the country Four Iranian intelligence agencies are giving contradictory commands to Tehran's Iraqi proxies, leaving armed factions scratching their heads Iraqi youths watch an event celebrating the inauguration of a street named after the late Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the southern city of Basra (AFP) By Published date: 17 March 2021 14:18 UTC | Last update: 1 min 11 sec ago The rivalry between Iranian intelligence services operating in Iraq is casting a heavy sh...

The last surviving Juma tribe man has died from COVID-19. Aruká Juma was the last surviving man of the Juma tribe in Brazil. Sadly, he lost his life to coronavirus. As UNILAD reports, the virus was allegedly spread by invading loggers, miners, and landgrabbers. Aruká passed away on February 17, after being hospitalized in Pôrto Velho, Rondônia. Although his exact age is not clear, he was believed to have been somewhere between 86 and 90 years old. The fate of the Amazon tribe has also been quite unfortunate. From an estimated 15,000 in the 18th century, there were not more than...

Aruká Juma, the last surviving man of Amazon's Juma tribe, has died from COVID-19, which was brought by invading loggers. Juma, aged between 86 and 90, was the last fluent speaker of the tribe's language, making his death eradicate the Juma tribe's many traditions and rituals that have been practiced for years. Juma tribe was once numbered 15,000, but the number dwindled because of recurring massacres and the Amazon variant of coronavirus. "We were many before the rubber tappers and the prospectors came to kill all the Juma people. Back then, the Juma were happy. Now there is only me," Juma ...

Updated: 8 Mar 2021, 11:01 UNCONTACTED and isolated Amazon tribes face being “wiped out” by the mutant Brazilian Covid strain as the government has been accused of genocide by campaigners. Activists claim invading loggers, miners and landgrabbers are spreading coronavirus to the sprawling rainforest's indigenous people, who have little immunity to most diseases, with the virus killing ten children recently in one village. �� Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates... 14 The uncontacted Awá in the Brazilian Amazon use the resin of the maçaranduba tree to make...

ANALYSIS-How Biden could use foreign and trade policy to protect the Amazon rainforest Reuters 2/18/2021 * U.S. urged to engage Brazil in climate diplomacy * Economic incentives, trade deals could help stem deforestation * Law could stop imports of products from illegally cleared land By Anastasia Moloney and Fabio Teixeira BOGOTA/RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A s U.S. President Joe Biden develops his climate change agenda for the global stage, foreign and trade policies could also be used to tackle the thorny issue of rising deforestation in the Amazon, researchers ...