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By:Ione Wells “If these fires continue, we indigenous people will die. Raimundinha Rodrigues Da Sousa runs the voluntary fire service for the Caititu indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon. Their land is supposed to be protected under the Brazilian constitution. But it has been on fire for more than 15 days. For her brigade, their fight feels personal. “Today it ...

By Ione Wells in São Paulo and Patrick Jackson in London BBC News Chilean ex-President Sebastián Piñera, who served two terms and was also a billionaire businessman, has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 74. Three other people aboard the aircraft survived when it came down in a lake near the southern town of Lago Ranco. Piñera ...