Brazil political drama deepens with graft plea deal

[WorldNews]

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Brasília (AFP) - A political drama threatening Brazil's President Michel Temer deepened Thursday with judges ordering his top ally to stand trial and corruption suspects lining up to make more potentially explosive revelations. After a roller-coaster year for Brazil, the latest allegations risk destabilizing Temer just six months after he took office, as he seeks to rescue Latin America's biggest economy from crisis. Supreme Court judges ruled that Brazil's third-most powerful official, Senate president Renan Calheiros, 61, must face trial for alleged embezzlement.

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