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Brazil sworn in a new environmental minister Tuesday following the resignation of the previous minister over concerns about Amazon deforestation.

The runways at Brazil's Conhongas airport are unsafe and led to a deadly crash that killed some 200 people, a pilot told local media Wednesday.

A 21-year-old anorexic model who weighed only 88 pounds has died of generalized infection, a hospital said. Ana Carolina Reston, who had worked in China, Turkey, Mexico and Japan for several modeling agencies, died Tuesday, according to Sao Paulo's Servidor Publico Hospital.

Mass slayings and prison riots plaguing the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo have been brought under control, O Globo reported Tuesday. Nearly 100 people were killed in the four days of violence that rocked Sao Paulo and spread to surrounding states, Brazilian newspapers reported.