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The Brazilian anthem was duly played at the bottom of the Lapland ski slope 170km north of the Arctic Circle.

Crews installed cable nets and erosion-control devices and spent Saturday responding to emergencies, clearing debris with heavy equipment, draining flooded roads to reduce mudflows and removing any unstable rocks identified on steep slopes.

The minibus was on a curved and sloping road in the Buleleng district, which is on the northern side of the island, when the crash happened.

The tax proposal, said campaign strategist Dan Newman, “opens up a can of worms sliding down a slippery slope by taxing cars, houses, wheelbarrows and everything else.”

At Monte Clérigo, researchers identified 5 trackways and 26 individual footprints created by adults and by children slightly over a year old on the slope of what was once a coastal dune.