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Brazilian President invites Leonardo DiCaprio to see reality of Amazon rain forest
Last year President Jair Bolsonaro accused the actor of funding fires in the Amazon, without presenting any evidence
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Record-breaking astronaut returns to Earth after longest mission by woman
Christina Koch returns after a stay of almost 11 months aboard in the International Space Station
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Brazil arrests 63, levies $8.7 million in fines over fires
Brazil in August recorded 30,901 fires in the Amazon, almost triple of the 10,421 recorded in the same month in 2018
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New fires rage in Amazon as Brazil military planes battle flames
Seventy personnel, firefighters and troops, have been deployed to put out the blazes, the Rondonia government said