In Brazil, prosecutors brought fresh corruption charges against President Michel Temer and six associates Thursday, accusing them of pocketing nearly $200 million in bribes and covering up their crimes. The charges will force a vote in Brazil’s lower house of Congress on whether to put the president on trial at the Supreme Court. Temer survived a similar vote in August, even though a secretly recorded tape captured him approving hush-money payoffs for a powerful politician jailed on corruption charges.
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