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Fish trade's murky waters cloud double murder in Amazon
Fish trade's murky waters cloud double murder in Amazon
by  AFP

The pirarucu is one impressive fish: a huge, thrashing Amazonian monster with red-and-black scales the size of serving spoons. The traffickers allegedly use the black-market fish trade to launder drug money -- part of what the Brazilian Forum for Public Security recently called the "complex national and transnational criminal chains that operate across different economies" in the Amazon.

Two kidnapped Chibok girls freed in Nigeria after eight years
Two kidnapped Chibok girls freed in Nigeria after eight years
by  AFP

Nigerian troops have found two former schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram jihadists eight years ago, the military said Tuesday, freeing some of the last victims of the 2014 Chibok abduction. Dozens of Boko Haram militants stormed the Chibok girls' boarding school in 2014 and packed 276 pupils, aged 12-17, at the time into trucks in the jihadist group's first mass school abduction.

Australian activists file legal bid to stop gas project
Australian activists file legal bid to stop gas project
by  AFP

Australian conservationists have launched a legal bid to block a massive gas project, saying it would harm the Great Barrier Reef by warming the planet. The proposed, Aus$16 billion ($11 billion) Scarborough project would be located off the coast of Western Australia, thousands of kilometres from the Great Barrier Reef.

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