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Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to free leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison while they consider whether the convicting judge was biased in his case. IMAGES
Brazil Supreme Court debates an appeal that could free former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. IMAGES
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) continues to examine on Thursday whether the 2014 re-election of President Dilma Rousseff and her then-vice president Temer should be invalidated because of corrupt campaign funding. If the court votes to scrap the election result, Temer -- who took over only last year when Rousseff was impeached -- would himself risk losing his office, forcing Brazil's congress to pick an interim president. IMAGES of the opening of the third TSE session.
Brazil's election court opened hearings Tuesday that could topple scandal-tainted President Michel Temer, plunging Latin America's biggest country into untested political waters. IMAGES of the start of the court hearing.
Indigenous people arrive before Brazil's Supreme Court to await a decision on a key case on whether to restrict native peoples' rights to their ancestral lands. So far, five judges have voted to reject the so-called "time-frame argument", which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988, when the country's current constitution was ratified. IMAGES
Brazil's electoral court begins delivering its ruling on charges ex-president Jair Bolsonaro broke the law with his unproven allegations against the voting system, a case that could eliminate him from the 2026 presidential race. IMAGES
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