Elite police arrived in the North of Brazil (AP)

SAO PAULO - an elite of the police happened North of the Brazil on Wednesday to help local law enforcement combat violence is anti-logging and land rights activists in the Amazon forest.

Paulo Silber, a spokesman for the Government of the State of Para, said that 60 police officers have been deployed in three cities. He provided no details.

The force has members of the federal police, military and regular police forces.

The President Dilma Rousseff ordered the unit sent in the Amazon region the recent assassination of three activists and a witness in the States of Para and Rondonia.

According to the Catholic pastoral lands of surveillance, more than 1 150 rural activists were killed in Brazil in the last 20 years. The killings are mostly carried out by armed men hired by farmers, ranchers and loggers to silence protest over illegal logging of forests.

Thursday, justice, human rights and Agrarian Development Ministers are scheduled to begin a visit to the States of Para, Amazonas and Rondonia to discuss with local authorities the means to deal with the violence.

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Greenpeace activists arrested on oil drilling in the Arctic: the police (AFP)

Copenhagen (AFP) - two Greenpeace activists who scaled a platform for oil drilling off the coast of Greenland weekend to protest oil exploration in the Arctic were arrested during the night, police and environmental group, said Thursday.

"Last night, the police decided the time was right, and we have arrested two activists," Deputy police Chief of Greenland Morten Nielsen told AFP.

"They are being transported Nuuk (capital of Greenland) and it will be determined if they they will go before a judge", he added.

Greenpeace also said that two activists of 25 years, Luke Jones of Britain and Hannah Mchardy to the United States, had been arrested after having suspended in a "survival pod" under the platform of "leiv eiriksson" 53, 00-tonne four days.

"Our climbers are now in jail, but that won't stop it we opposed to the folly of drilling for oil that we can to burn and a region where a spill would be nearly impossible to clean," international Greenpeace militant oil Ben Ayliffe said in a statement.

The two activists arrived by Zodiac rubber early Sunday to the platform of 53 000 tonnes, which should begin to drill for oil (110 km) at 180 kilometres off the West coast of Greenland, to society Scottish Cairn Energy.

Greenpeace said the position of the pod prevented the drilling rig, but Cairn told AFP that it was not as drilling was no plan to start.

Deputy Chief of police Nielsen, said that the operation was led by the local police of Greenland is a semiautonomous Danish territory, but that the Danish Navy had been seen where rescue efforts are necessary.

Shortly before midnight (0000 GMT Thursday) "a mounted team operating from the platform broke in the pod", Greenpeace said, adding "Danish marine inflatable boats have been positioned below climbers.".

Cairn meanwhile said that he sought a court injunction to Netherlands against Greenpeace and the owners of its ships the MS Esperanza and the MS Arctic Sunrise.

"Cairn is asking for an order of the court requiring Greenpeace and ship owners to refrain from future disruption of legitimate operations of the offshore Cairn, in Greenland," said the statement.

Ayliff of Greenpeace described the move of the company as "try to us a legal hammer close our campaign for the launch of the oil companies of the Arctic."

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Man near nuclear power plant is not a threat: the police (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - a man acting erratically near a nuclear power plant in Virginia was arrested by police Friday and has proved to be carrying a black box of wet sand harmless, chained to his neck, said authorities.

His actions caused concern when he was spotted drifting in the James River for at least five hours on a boat inflatable of 9 feet with a small black box, chained to his neck, according to spokesman John Bull. Virginia Marine Police

"He was disoriented, inconsistent in most cases." Sometimes it would be lucid and be useful. "That was a not last very long," said Bull.

"There is no link for this terrorism." He did y no threat to the Surry nuclear power, Bull said in a telephone interview.

The boat was towed to shore and the man taken into custody without incident.

The man has been the object of a mental evaluation, Bull said.

(Reported by Wendell Marsh.) (Editing by Jerry Norton and Greg McCune)

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