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| Brazil impeachment opens diplomatic rift in South America | | Thursday, September 01, 2016 1:21 AM | |
| | By Alonso Soto and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - The dismissal of Brazil's president upset relations with leftist South American governments on Wednesday as Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia recalled their ambassadors to protest what they called a "coup" and Brasilia responded in kind. The Brazilian Senate voted 61-20 to convict the country's first female president, Dilma Rousseff, of illegally using money from state banks to bankroll public spending. The vote ended 13 years of progressive Workers Party rule and brought to power her conservative former vice president, Michel Temer. |
| Brazil's Rousseff ousted by Senate, Temer sworn in | | Thursday, September 01, 2016 1:01 AM | |
|  By Maria Carolina Marcello and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America's biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis. Senators voted 61-20 to convict the country's first female president for illegally using money from state banks to bankroll public spending, marking the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule. Rousseff's opponents hailed her removal as paving the way for a change of fortunes for Brazil.
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| Actor Tom Sizemore charged with domestic abuse | | Thursday, September 01, 2016 12:51 AM | |
|  By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Tom Sizemore, who co-starred in the films "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down" before he was convicted in 2003 of assaulting ex-girlfriend Heidi Fleiss, has been charged with domestic abuse stemming from an arrest in July. Sizemore, 54, faces one count each of three misdemeanors - abuse of an intimate partner, battery of an intimate partner and making terrorist threats - all punishable by up to a year in jail, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office said on Wednesday.
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| Brazil's new leader a consensus-builder who must prepare for a fight | | Thursday, September 01, 2016 12:37 AM | |
|  The Senate's dismissal on Wednesday of Dilma Rousseff, the least popular president since Brazil returned to democracy three decades ago, handed power to a politician almost as unpopular, vice president Michel Temer.[nL1N1BC0E8][nL8N1BC63Z] For much of his five decades in politics, the softly-spoken Temer has worked in the shadows, building alliances within his fragmented Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) and rising to become one of the leading dealmakers in Brazil's Congress. "For a portion of the population, whether fair or not, he is linked to the idea that there has been a 'coup.' His challenge is not just pushing through reforms.
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| Brazilian police fire tear gas at anti-Temer protesters | | Thursday, September 01, 2016 12:06 AM | |
| | SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Demonstrations in Brazil's biggest city against the removal from office of former President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday devolved into clashes between masked protestors and police, who fired tear gas canisters to clear the streets. Television images showed some protestors smashing windows, vandalizing stores and setting trash on fire in downtown Sao Paulo, while police arrayed in riot gear blocked major roads. (Reporting by Brad Haynes; Editing by Daniel Flynn) |
| Mexico contradicts Trump on paying for border wall, clouding visit | |  By Christine Murray, Ana Isabel Martinez and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Donald Trump told Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday he would build a border wall to keep illegal migrants out if he wins the U.S. presidency, but Pena Nieto held fast to his position that Mexico would not pay for it. Contradicting Trump's assertion that the pair did not discuss who would pay for his proposed wall, Pena Nieto said after the departure of the Republican presidential candidate that he told him during their private meeting in Mexico City that his government would not pick up the bill. "At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall," Pena Nieto said in a tweet after not mentioning the issue during their joint news conference.
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| Brazil recalls ambassador to Venezuela over impeachment spat | | | BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government has recalled its ambassador to Venezuela for consultations after Caracas condemned the removal of impeached President Dilma Rousseff and recalled its envoy in Brasilia, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Brazil also recalled its ambassadors to Bolivia and Ecuador after the leftist governments of those countries criticized the Senate's decision to oust Rousseff in an impeachment trial that ended earlier on Wednesday. (Reporting by Alonso Soto; Editing by Peter Cooney) |
| Ex-Air China worker charged by U.S. for smuggling for Chinese military | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - An ex-Air China Ltd employee was indicted on Wednesday for smuggling packages onto flights from New York to China on behalf of Chinese military personnel stationed at the country's U.N. mission, U.S. prosecutors said. Ying Lin, 46, was also accused in an indictment filed in federal court in Brooklyn of obstructing justice by helping a Chinese national the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating to flee the country last year. Prosecutors did not name the Chinese national, but his description matches that of Qin Fei of Beijing, who other court records show the FBI has suspected may be involved with Chinese intelligence. |
| UK government needs stronger response to VW emissions scandal-committee | |  By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - The British government should take a tougher stance against Volkswagen after its emissions fraud, as well as increase the use of electric cars and reduce air pollution from transport, a parliamentary environment committee said on Thursday. Almost a year after U.S regulators found that Volkswagen (VW) had cheated in diesel emissions tests, the British government has yet to decide what action to take against Europe's largest automaker, even though it faces criminal investigations in the United States, South Korea and elsewhere. The worldwide scandal, dubbed "Dieselgate", has hurt VW's reputation and business, and already cost it billions of dollars.
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| Gabon's President Bongo re-elected, parliament set on fire | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Demonstrators in Gabon clashed with police and set part of the parliament building on fire on Wednesday as anger boiled over among opposition supporters at President Ali Bongo's re-election in polls that his main rival, Jean Ping, claimed to have won. Opposition members of the Central African oil producer's electoral commission rejected Saturday's first-past-the-post election result, which would see the Bongo family's nearly half-century in power extended another seven years. Gabon's economic troubles, caused by falling oil output and prices, have led to budget cuts in one of Africa's richest nations and fuelled opposition charges that its 1.8 million people have struggled under Bongo's leadership.
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| Defiant to the end, Brazil's Rousseff vows to fight on | |  By Stephen Eisenhammer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla who rose to become her country's first female president, went out as she always said she would: fighting. "I know we will all fight." Such defiance is characteristic of the 68-year-old leftist, who was imprisoned and tortured in the early 1970s under Brazil's military dictatorship. Removed from office for breaking budget laws, Rousseff denied any wrongdoing to the very end, vowing to appeal to the Supreme Court to reverse an impeachment she has described as a coup.
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| Brazil's Temer says spending cap key to fixing economy | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Michel Temer said on Wednesday that fixing Brazil's economy would not be easy, but his priority was to pass a spending cap this year, attract foreign investment, reduce unemployment and begin reform of the pension system. At his first cabinet meeting after being sworn in by Congress, Temer said he would not tolerate divisions within his coalition. In the meeting, which was televised, Temer appeared annoyed that some of his allies had moved to grant ousted President Dilma Rousseff political rights without consulting his government. ...
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| Venezuela detains 25 opposition supporters before rally - rights group | |  Venezuelan authorities rounded up 25 opposition activists and supporters in the last two days amid plans for a massive protest against President Nicolas Maduro, a rights group said on Wednesday. Opposition supporters around the country are descending on Caracas for rallies scheduled for Thursday to demand a recall referendum against the unpopular socialist leader. The local Penal Forum rights group said that of 25 people held in the last 48 hours, 12 had been released while 13 were still in custody by mid-afternoon Wednesday.
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| Macedonian political parties agree on December 11 election | | | Macedonia's political parties agreed on Wednesday to hold an early parliamentary election on Dec. 11 in a step to resolve the 18-month-long crisis over a wiretapping scandal. Under European Union and NATO pressure, parliament in May cancelled an election set for June 5 in the face of criticism that a threatened opposition boycott would call the vote's legitimacy into question. Zoran Zaev, leader of the opposition Social Democrats, said opposition parties would be part of this government. |
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