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Brazil: Ex-finance minister jailed for 12 years

Former Brazilian finance minister, Antonio Palocci and one-time right-hand-man of Presidents Lula and Rousseff is jailed for 12 years in 'Operation Car Wash'

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Brazil: car ploughs into Sao Paulo skateborders

Car deliberately drives into skateboarders in Sao Paulo

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Dance demonstration: Brazilians samba to protest against funding cuts

Sashaying through the streets, Brazilians danced the samba to demonstrate against Carnival funding cuts.

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Surfer's close encounter with a fridge prompts pollution plea

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Brazilian President Michel Temer acquitted of illegal campaign funding

A close vote in Brazil's Superior Electoral Court finds Temer not guilty of receiving illegal campaign funds during 2014 presidential election

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Brazil emerges from recession

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Brazil's musical protest

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Anti-Temer protest turns violent in Brasilia

The army was deployed after a government ministry was set alight in the worst anti-government violence in Brasilia for four years.

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Crackdown in crackland

Brazilian riot police arrested 34 in a pre-dawn raid on Sunday (May 21) in the downtown Sao Paulo neighbourhood known as Cracolandia (Crackland), a notorious zone where crack cocaine users and addicts

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Brazil's Temer accused of corruption and obstruction of justice

Brazil’s president Michel Temer is being accused of corruption and the obstruction of justice by the country’s top prosecutor.

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'I won't resign' - Brazil's president vows to fight hush money claims

Brazilian President Michel Temer says he will fight allegations that he endorsed the paying of hush money to an ex-lawmaker jailed for corruption.

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Brazilian shares tumble on fears president could be ousted

Brazil's Bovespa index fell 10 percent on a report President Michel Temer condoned an attempt to silence a potential witness in a corruption probe.

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Brazil's Temer denies approving hush money in corruption case

A newspaper has reported claims the president was recorded giving his blessing to an attempt to pay a potential witness in a corruption case to keep quiet.

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Brazil declares Zika emergency over

The emergency had been in place since November 2015, when the virus was linked to the birth of babies with abnormally small heads.

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Ex-Brazil President Lula appears in court on corruption charges

Former Brazilian President Lula appears in court before a top anti-graft judge to face the first of five corruption-related charges

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Brazil: Artists against budget cuts

Dozens of dancers, singers and musicians performed before a crowd outside the Municipal Theatre in Rio de Janeiro to protest budget cuts and delayed payments.

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Indigenous Warao flee Venezuela in search of new life in Brazil

Thousands of indigenous Warao people, mostly hailing from the Orinoco Delta in eastern Venezuela, have fled to Brazil to seek a new life.

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Prison guards in Brazil scuffle in parliament pensions protest

There were rowdy scenes inside Brazil’s parliament on Wednesday night after prison guards protesting against new retirement rules stormed the committee room.

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Rio buses torched in suspected gang-related violence

Suspected drug gang members set fire to at least seven commuter buses and two lorries in Rio de Janeiro causing major traffic problems on Tuesday.

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Ex-tycoon Eike Batista leaves Rio jail ahead of bribery trial

Brazilian oil and mining magnate Eike Batista has left a Rio de Janeiro jail for house arrest ahead of a trial on corruption charges.