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Brazil is to increase troop numbers in the Amazon rain forest, build nuclear and conventional submarines to protect oil fields and modernise its weapons industry.

Sat, 20 Dec, 2008 - 00:00

Defence minister Nelson Jobim said Amazon troops will go from 17,000 to 25,000

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