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Brazil govt: Amazon deforestation up slightly (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 06:39 PM CST AP - Destruction of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forest appeared to accelerate slightly over the past year after slowing since 2004, the government said on Friday.

UN forum backs harsher penalties for sex tourists (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST AP - Tourists who go abroad to abuse children should face the prospect of prosecution in their home countries if they are caught having sex with kids in nations with lax penalties, participants at a U.N.-backed conference concluded Friday.

Amazon deforestation up almost 4.0 percent (AFP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 02:21 PM CST AFP - Brazil's Amazon jungles, known as the lungs of the world, lost almost 12,000 square kilometres (4,800 sq. miles) in just 12 months, a rise of almost 4.0 percent, new figures showed Friday.

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