Brazil

Opposition activists handcuffed themselves to a pillar in Brazil's Congress on Wednesday seeking the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff for mismanaging a once-booming economy and undermining confidence in the country.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has one last chance to stem a growing political and economic crisis before being forced to step down, one of the country's leading daily newspapers said on Sunday

A global group of government anti-money-laundering agencies said that financial institutions have not done enough to police suspicious financial activity by officials at football’s global governing body fifa, and cautioned banks to step up scrutiny.The warning from the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force came in the wake of last month’s indictment by the U.S. of nine current and former fifa officials and five business executives on a series of Corruption charges, including Bribery, Money Laundering and wire fraud.With the U.S.

Casting a new pall over the summer Olympics, federal authorities in Brazil have raided the offices of a construction consortium contracted to build one of the main competition facilities in Rio De Janeiro amidst charges that it skimmed off millions of dollars in a new Corruption investigation.

Brazil's new interim government has been hit with a new set-back - causing more headaches for acting President Michel Temer - with a second minister announcing their resignation. Fabiano Silveira, who was in charge of the anti-Corruption ministry, is the second member of the interim administration to leave in only 16 days because of leaked recorded conversations about the investigation into Corruption at the state oil company Petrobras and the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.

Brazil’s interim leader Michel Temer is facing his first full-blown political crisis following the release of tape recordings seemingly showing that the suspension two weeks ago of President Dilma Rousseff was the result less of legitimate constitutional complaints and more of a plot.

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Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer is brushing off critics appalled by his failure to include a single woman in his 23-member cabinet saying he will consider females “a little further ahead”. It is also, remarkably, all white. The country club-looking team was assembled by Mr Temer after he replaced President Dilma Rousseff following her suspension a week ago to face an impeachment trial. It has fueled suspicion on the left that he is returning Brazil to a model of government-by-the-elite amidst a wholesale rejection of the progressive legacy left by Ms Rousseff’s now displaced Workers Party

Brazil's acting president, Michel Temer has held his first official cabinet meeting vowing the new team will try to rescue the country's plunging economy. The gathering at the government headquarters on Thursday followed a chaotic day that saw the Senate vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, suspending her from office and abruptly ousting nearly her entire government - a move she branded “a coup”.

President Dilma Rousseff has bowed to a vote in the Brazilian Senate to suspend her from office and face an impeachment trial for alleged fiddling of national budget numbers while blasting the move as “fraudulent”, “a coup” and a “farce”.