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Minister says oil on Brazil beaches 'probably' Venezuelan by Staff Writers Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 9, 2019 Large blots of oil that have turned up on more than 130 Brazilian beaches are "very probably" of Venezuelan origin, Brazil's environment minister said on Wednesday. The oil began appearing in early September and has been seen along a 2,000-kilometer (1,200-mile) stretch of the northeastern Atlantic coast -- with around 130 tons of oil residue collected by Monday. "This oil probably came from Venezuela, as a report from Petrobas shows. This oil was found in a foreign ship sailing near the Brazilian coast," Ricardo Salles told a congressional commission. The minister said the leak, which he called "accidental or not," had been difficult to contain. Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobas, which is taking part in the clean-up, said the oil "was neither produced nor sold" by the company after analyzing local samples last week. State-owned Venezuelan oil company PDVSA has not commented. The oil has appeared in all nine of Brazil's northeastern states -- a poor region with an economy that depends largely on tourism at its picturesque beaches. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday that authorities had identified where the oil was coming from, but did not name the country in question. Brasilia and Caracas have a tenuous relationship, with Brazil calling the socialist regime of its northern neighbor "dictatorial." val-lg/pt/caw/ft
Pollution app back in Vietnam after online abuse 'campaign' Hanoi (AFP) Oct 9, 2019 A leading pollution-monitoring app returned to Apple and Google Play stores in Vietnam on Wednesday, days after it was removed having been bombarded with negative comments online. The Swiss-based company AirVisual said this week it was the target of a "coordinated campaign" of abuse after publishing data showing several days of "unhealthy" pollution levels in Hanoi. The data prompted a blitz of negative comments on AirVisual's app and Facebook pages from Vietnamese users accusing the company of ... read more
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