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Brazil's president on Monday announced a crackdown on transportation of supplies to illegal gold miners in the Yanomami reservation in northern Brazil, hoping to force out the wildcat miners who have caused a humanitarian crisis among the area's indigenous people.

After meeting with ministers, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva mandated a number of initiatives to fight illegal mining and other criminal activities in the region, the government said in a statement.

That included ordering the government to block flights and river transport providing supplies to the wildcat miners, it said.

"The actions also aim to prevent the access of people not authorized by the public authorities to the region, to prevent illegal activities and the spread of diseases," it added.

Brazilian president rebuffs German chancellor on support for Ukraine during a tense press conference.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Brazil's freshly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva traded barbs late Monday on who's responsible for Russia's invasion in Ukraine, as the latter suggested that Kyiv could also be at fault.

Scholz arrived to the capital Brasília late Monday as part of a South American trip aimed at advancing a long-delayed EU-Mercosur trade and political cooperation deal, and to rally countries of the Global South behind the West's support for Ukraine.

Yet on Ukraine, Scholz received a brutal rebuff.

Following the amicable start of a joint press conference, in which the Brazilian president said that he wants to finalize the EU trade deal "by the end of the current semester," the mood turned sour after Lula raised the war in Ukraine and rejected Germany's appeal to support Kyiv with weapons and ammunition.

"If one doesn't want to, two can't fight," Lula told reporters, implying Ukraine as well had a role in Russia's invasion.

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