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Jailed Lula is endorsed by Workers’ Party for Brazil’s top job

Bloomberg Brazil’s left-wing Workers’ Party formally endorsed Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the upcoming presidential election, even though the former leader has been in jail since April on a corruption conviction. The Workers’ Party, known by its Portuguese acronym of PT, pushed ahead with Lula’s candidacy during a convention on Saturday in Sao Paulo. “Our democracy is at risk,” ...

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Trump administration fails to sway judge on DACA

Bloomberg The Trump administration failed again to convince a federal judge that there’s a legitimate reason to rescind legal protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children and seek to avoid deportation. US District Judge John Bates in Washington said that a second attempt by the Department of Homeland Security to ...

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Congo ‘leader’ blocked from returning home

Bloomberg Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi was twice refused permission to return home to register for the December presidential election, his campaign team said. The government rejected the allegations. Katumbi, in self-imposed exile since May 2016, had planned to fly to Lubumbashi, his home town in southeast Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 3 but his jet was denied permission ...

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