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EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) A search in the deep Brazilian Amazon for missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous rights expert ....
EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) International outcry continues over the disappearances of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous rights expert Bruno Araújo Pereira, who have been missing in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon since Sunday. The two men were last heard from by colleagues while travelling by boat in the Javari Valley region near the border with Peru. Phillips was on one of his last reporting trips for an upcoming book he was writing as part of a 2021 fellowship awarded by the Alicia Patterson Foundation, according to Margaret Engel, the U.S. journalism foundation's executive director. As of Friday, authorities in Brazil said they were testing samples of blood on a possible suspect's boat, but the two men remain missing. Authorities have questioned five others since the investigation started, but no arrests related to the disappearances have been made, a source with the Brazilian federal police told ABC News. At a vigil outside the Brazi ....
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