Bloomberg Brazil’s currency gained for the sixth week in seven, in spite of central bank efforts to limit gains, amid investor optimism that the interim government will win lawmakers’ support for measures to cut the budget deficit and stimulategrowth. The real was up 0.6 percent this week to 3.2802 per dollar on Friday on speculation the appointment of Rodrigo ...

  ISTANBUL / Reuters Forces loyal to Turkey’s government fought on Saturday to crush the last remnants of a military coup attempt which collapsed after crowds answered President Tayyip Erdogan’s call to take to the streets and dozens of rebels abandoned their tanks. One hundred and sixty-one people were killed, including many civilians, after a faction of the armed forces ...

  London / AFP A section of the Turkish military, the second-largest army in NATO after the US’, caught the world off guard on Friday by staging an attempted coup. The move stunned Turkey observers, who believed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party had brought the secular-minded army to heel. Acting army chief General Umit ...