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Tensions High As Brazil’s Congress Votes To Impeach Rousseff

The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has voted 342 to 127 to impeach Rousseff in what’s seen as a political coup attempt.

teleSUR
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Pro-government lawmakers scuffle with opposition lawmakers during the session on whether or not to impeachment Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, April 17, 2016. The vote will determine whether the impeachment proceeds to the Senate. Rousseff is accused of violating Brazil's fiscal laws to shore up public support amid a flagging economy. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Congressional members of Brazil's lower house have voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff Sunday in a fiercely contested ballot that could hasten the end of 13 years of leftist rule in the country. Of the 513 Congress members 342 voted in favor of impeachment, 127 against and six abstained. Rousseff’s supporters needed 172 votes to block the

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‘Ditch Dodgy Dave’: Anti-Austerity Protest Brings 150,000 To The Streets of London

Protesters are demanding PM David Cameron’s resignation over offshore investments revealed in the ‘Panama Papers’.

Common Dreams
بواسطة Common Dreams

A protest calling on David Cameron to resign has brought more than 150,000 people onto the streets of London on Saturday afternoon. The March for Health, Homes, Jobs and Education was organized by activist group thePeople's Assembly Against Austerity. The demonstrators called for an end to austerity, and demanded that David Cameron quit over the

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Saudi Arabia Threatens To Crash The Dollar If Congress Exposes Their Role In 9/11 Attacks

The threat is indicative of a continually deteriorating relationship with the Saudis, as the U.S. and the Kingdom have been at odds over how to deal with Iran.

Jay Syrmopoulos
بواسطة Jay Syrmopoulos
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A bombshell report by the New York Times has revealed that Saudi Arabia, the third largest holder of U.S. Treasury bills in the world behind China and Japan, has warned the Obama administration and Congress that they will begin liquidating their U.S. assets if Congress passes a bill allowing for the Saudi government to be held responsible for their

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Israel’s Role In The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

With the decades-long Azeri-Armenian conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region burning out of control for four intense, blood-soaked days at the beginning of this month, questions have emerged over the secretive role played by Israel in the conflict.

Sputnik News
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Martakert province in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Monday, April 4, 2016. Fighting raged Monday around Nagorno-Karabakh, with Azerbaijan saying it lost three of its troops in the separatist region while inflicting heavy casualties on Armenian forces and the Armenian president warning that the hostilities could slide into a full-scale war. (Vahan Stepanyan, PAN Photo via AP)

Late last week, commenting on the recent escalation of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, former Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman blamed Armenia for provoking four days of clashes which left over a hundred dead and dozens wounded. Azerbaijan, Lieberman said, had "no reasons

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Turkey Denies Shooting At Fleeing Syrian Refugees

HRW: Turkey responded to fleeing Aleppo residents with live ammunition.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Syrian refugees cross into Turkey from Syria

After a Turkish-backed rebel offensive against ISIS in Aleppo Province turned into a disaster, Turkish border troops were scrambling to keep some 30,000 refugees displaced by the ISIS counter-offensive from fleeing into Turkey, that’s getting them some serious criticism. Human Rights Watch reported on Friday that Turkish border guards responded

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Tax Docs Reveal Goldman Sachs Donated $18,000 To Violent, Illegal Israeli Settlers

Palestinian residents in downtown Hebron install “nets and metal grates over the streets to catch the garbage that settlers routinely throw from their windows,” one NGO worker writes in Haaretz.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
A Jewish settler carries an rifle as he participates in a protest against the Palestinian bid for statehood, outside the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near the West Bank town of Hebron (A.P Photo/Bernat Armangue)

HEBRON --- Goldman Sachs is a financial supporter of one of Israel’s most violent, racist illegal settlements in occupied Palestine. Documents published last week by Haaretz, one of Israel’s most liberal mainstream newspapers, revealed that the controversial investment banking giant made an $18,000 tax-deductible donation to the Brooklyn-based

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