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Prosecutors are investigating a reported massacre in which members of an "uncontacted" indigenous tribe were allegedly killed by illegal gold miners in a distant part of the country's Amazon. The news has been widely condemned by advocacy groups that say Brazil is backsliding on its obligation to protect indigenous peoples. "The government doesn't see protecting indigenous people as a priority," said Gilderlan Rodrigues, a missionary working with uncontacted peoples for Brazil's Indigenous Missionary Council, an organisation that monitors violence against indigenous people. "They want to open up indigenous lands for exploration," he added.

Shock! It’s been likened to the hand of God but looks more like a meteorite stopped in its tracks as it hurtles towards earth. Amazing pictures of a cloud hanging over Teixeira de Freitas in south-east Brazil have sent social media into a frenzy. Many who pictured the weather phenomenon on Thursday evening said they were initially scared it may be the start of a tornado formation. But it was later confirmed to be dust cloud that had been turned red by the sunset. João Paulo Magalhães who shared footage from a petrol station said: ‘It really looked like the entrance to a meteorite or something. I was scared too, we thought it would form a tornado.’