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One of South America’s few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru.
The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land.
The pictures, taken from an aeroplane, show red-painted tribe members brandishing bows and arrows.
More than half the world’s 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru, Survival International says.
Stephen Corry, the director of the group – which supports tribal people around the world – said such tribes would “soon be made extinct” if their land was not protected.
‘Monumental crime’
Survival International says that although this particular group is increasing in number, others in the area are at risk from illegal logging.
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The photos were taken during several flights over one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil’s Acre region.
They show tribe members outside thatched huts, surrounded by the dense jungle, pointing bows and arrows up at the camera.
“We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,” the group quoted Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior, an official in the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department, as saying.
“This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence.”
Patrick Demarchelier exclusively for Vanity Fair
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Angelina Jolie may not have given birth – yet. But Vanity Fair gives readers a glimpse of Angie’s other twins on this month’s cover as the buxom actress discusses why boyfriend Brad Pitt makes her love being knocked up.
“I’m fortunate,” she said. “I think some women have a different experience depending on their partner. I think that affects it. I happen to be with somebody who finds pregnancy very sexy so that makes me feel very sexy.”
Jolie, who stars in both this summer’s action flick “Wanted” and cartoon comedy “Kung Fu Panda,” says she doesn’t even mind waddling around for nine long months.
“I love it. [Pregnancy] makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.”
For more on Jolie, visit VanityFair.com.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Luxury retailer Christian Dior has pulled advertisements featuring Sharon Stone from stores across China after the actress suggested the country’s earthquake was “bad karma” for Beijing’s policies in Tibet.
At least 68,000 people died in the May 12 quake in southwest China, which came months after unrest in Tibet that sparked an international outcry over Beijing’s handling of the predominantly Buddhist region, which Communist troops entered in 1950.
“Due to some customer reaction we have decided to pull her image from all of the department stores and from all of China,” Christian Dior China said in a statement.
Stone has a modeling contract with the cosmetics arm of the luxury retailer for which newly rich China is a fast-growing market.
“We just want our customers and fans to realize that her personal comments are not related to the company and of course we don’t support any type of commentary that will hurt the feelings of our customers,” Dior said.
The Beijing Times reported that Chinese cinemas would not show Stone’s films, though China already strictly limits the number of foreign movies it distributes in theatres.
Her movies include “Basic Instinct” in 1992 and “Casino” and “The Quick and the Dead”, both in 1995.
Stone apologized for her comments in remarks carried in Chinese media on Thursday.
Ringo H.W. Chiu / For The Times
Friends gather for a cocktail before the midnight screening of “Sex and the City” at the ArcLight Theater.
MOCK them at your own risk. They have heels and they know how to use them.
They’re showing up in droves, in posses, in very well-dressed tribes. Worshipers of “Sex and the City” may not look like Comic-Con fans but they’re every bit as tenacious — and they smell better. Tickets for the ArcLight Hollywood’s 12:01 a.m. Friday show of the movie based on the HBO series sold out so quickly that the theater added a 12:02 show. Then 12:03. And so on, for seven post-midnight shows, and 1,800 tickets sold.
And they aren’t just there for the flick; they’re making an event of it. By 10:30 Thursday night, the bar and restaurant were full of groups of women, and the occasional man, downing cocktails and awaiting the midnight hour. “If you see a cosmo on a table, they’re going to ‘Sex and the City,’ ” said waiter James Warfield as he carried a tray bearing the show’s signature drink. “I have a lot more ladies than usual.”
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