Brazil's Rousseff gains time to avert impeachment

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By Maria Carolina Marcello and Leonardo Goy BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday won President Dilma Rousseff more time to muster votes in Congress to block opposition efforts to impeach her on charges of manipulating government accounts. Opposition parties had planned to force a vote in the lower house that could have opened proceedings to impeach the president as early as this week. Brazil's worst recession in 25 years and a huge corruption scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras have pushed Rousseff's approval ratings into single digits and put her political survival at risk.

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