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Brazil: 20% forest shrinkage

SAO PAULO — Two Brazilian research groups said the Amazon rain forest will shrink nearly 20 percent by 2030 as farming, road construction and poor government surveillance speed deforestation, according to a study published Sunday.

As many as 260,000 square miles of forest may be destroyed in the next 22 years, according to the University of Minas Gerais and the Amazon Institute of Environmental Research.

Brazil: Mudslides claim 9

RIO DE JANEIRO — Torrential downpours triggered mudslides that killed at least nine people Sunday near Rio de Janeiro, authorities said.

Three children were among the victims after homes and roads were swept away in the mountainous region of Petropolis, outside of Rio de Janeiro, authorities and the official government news service Agencia Brasil said Sunday.

Britain: Bhutto was warned

LONDON — In an autobiography being published after her assassination, Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she was warned that four suicide bomber squads would try to kill her, one led by Osama bin Laden's 16-year-old son.

Bhutto — who was killed in Rawalpindi in December — wrote that Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and a "foreign Muslim government" had informed her these squads were planning her murder, according to excerpts of the book, which is to be published on Feb. 12.

Lebanon: Israelis open fire

BEIRUT — Israeli forces opened fire across the Lebanese border late Sunday, killing one person and wounding another, Lebanese security officials said.

The Israeli military said it was responding to fire apparently from drug smugglers on the Lebanese side. Such shootings have been rare since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

Rwanda: Quakes wreak havoc

KIGALI — Two earthquakes struck hours apart Sunday in Rwanda and neighboring Congo, killing at least 39 people, including some who were in a church that collapsed in a temblor, officials said.

Nearly 400 people were injured.

A magnitude-6.0 quake struck Congo early, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The second quake, which registered 5.0, hit a few hours later near the countries' border in Rwanda's rural Rusizi District.

Serbia: Pro-Western chief wins