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Residents of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, arrive early and queue to cast their vote ahead of polls opening in the presidential election second round, choosing between wildly different visions of their future offered by incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and his rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. IMAGES
Brazilian former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva marches alongside supporters in Rio's Complexo do Alemão favela as part of his second round campaign against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. IMAGES
Residents of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, vote in a polarising presidential election, with leftist front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva facing far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. IMAGES TO COMPLETE 32KK3FL
The United States makes history as the Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court. The upper chamber of Congress erupts in applause as the 51-year-old is approved by a vote of 53 to 47 that ensures white men will not be the majority on the nation's high court for the first time in 233 years. IMAGES
"The president has stated and reiterated his commitment to nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court and certainly stands by that," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says, as several US news media outlets report that US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire. SOUNDBITE
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), May 7 (EFE).- (Camera: Janaína Quinet) Residents of the Jacarezinho favela have accused Civil Police in the Brazilian state Rio de Janeiro of carrying out a “massacre” during a raid on the settlement that left 24 suspects and one police officer dead. “This was not an intelligence operation, it was a total massacre that forms part of the genocide underway in our country, and especially in our state,” Giovanna Almeida, a 22-year-old student, told Efe during a protest outside the Civil Police station. FOOTAGE OF A PROTEST IN FRON OD THE CIVIL POLICE FACILITIES IN RIO DE JANEIRO.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF:MILENA SANTOS:"As a Carioca, woman, young, black and favela resident, my feeling is of repudiation, of sadness. It was the lives of 25 young people. Suspicious or not, people do not have to be murdered. These are crimes, it is state violence.""People died sitting down, they died inside houses. The images show the truth and from the direction of the blood you can see there was no exchange of shots. It was an execution, it was murder."GIOVANA ALMEIDA:“This was not an intelligence operation, it was a total massacre that forms part of the genocide underway in our country, and especially in our state.”