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BRAZIL'S LULA SPENDS FIRST NIGHT IN JAIL AMID FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
The imprisonment of Lula, Brazil's first working-class president, throws the October presidential election wide open as he leads the race in opinion polls... READ MORE›
AFTER TENSE STANDOFF, DA SILVA SPENDS FIRST DAY OF 12-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE BEHIND BARS
The first day of da Silva's 12-year sentence marked the downfall of a person who was once one of the world's most popular politicians... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LULA SURRENDERS TO POLICE TO BEGIN JAIL SENTENCE AFTER TENSE SHOWDOWN
Da Silva emerged a second time shortly after nightfall, this time surrounded by bodyguards who pushed back scores of supporters who tried to stop his advance... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT LULA TURNS HIMSELF IN TO POLICE
A judge then gave him until 5:00 pm local time (2000 GMT) Friday to turn himself in, but Lula missed the deadline... READ MORE›
FORMER BRAZIL PRESIDENT SURRENDERS TO POLICE AFTER DEFYING ARREST WARRANT
Luiz inacio lula da silva faces 12-year corruption sentence but maintains innocence... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT 'LULA' DA SILVA JAILED FOR GRAFT
After running for president several times, in 2002 da Silva finally won... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S FIRST BLACK CHIEF JUSTICE JOINS PARTY TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
A majority of party members favor nominating Barbosa at a convention in June, they said... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LULA TURNS HIMSELF IN TO POLICE, ENDING STANDOFF
He will be taken by police to a jail cell in the southern city of Curitiba, where he will begin serving his 12-year sentence... READ MORE›
LULA TURNS HIMSELF IN TO BRAZIL POLICE, ENDING STANDOFF
Protesters supporting Lula clashed with police outside the walls of the building... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT LULA, ONCE THE WORLD'S 'MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN,' SURRENDERS TO FACE PRISON TIME
Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, left, accompanies fellow former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after leaving the union headquarters Saturday... READ MORE›
BRAZIL: LULA 'NEGOTIATING SURRENDER' TO POLICE TO SERVE JAIL SENTENCE
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's legal team is negotiating his surrender with federal police to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for... READ MORE›
THE 'MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN ON EARTH' SURRENDERS TO POLICE
Former Brazilian president Luiz InA?cio Lula da Silva has vowed to stage his political comeback while serving a 12-year sentence on corruption charges... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LULA TURNS HIMSELF IN TO POLICE AFTER TENSE SHOWDOWN
Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has handed himself over to police to begin a 12-year prison sentence for corruption, according to local media... READ MORE›
EX-BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA AGREES TO SURRENDER TO POLICE FOLLOWING CORRUPTION CONVICTION
Ex-Brazilian president Lula da Silva agrees to surrender to police following corruption conviction... READ MORE›
LULA AGREES TO SURRENDER TO BRAZIL POLICE AFTER DEFYING ORDER
I will comply with the order and all of you will become Lula, he told the cheering crowd... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S DEFIANT LULA EXPECTED TO SURRENDER TO POLICE ON SATURDAY
Ex-president Lula da Silva remains holed up in steel-workers union HQ, in standoff with police over corruption case... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S FIRST BLACK CHIEF JUSTICE JOINS PARTY TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
A majority of party members favor nominating Barbosa at a convention in June, they said... READ MORE›
BRAZIL: DEADLINE FOR LULA TO TURN HIMSELF INTO POLICE EXPIRES
Brazil Deadline for Lula to turn himself into police expires... READ MORE›
DEFIANT ZUMA SINGS, DANCES OUTSIDE COURT AS HIS CORRUPTION TRIAL OPENS
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, also known as Lula, photographed through the window of a car in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday... READ MORE›
LULA HUNKERS DOWN IN UNION OFFICE AFTER ARREST DEADLINE PASSES
Brazil federal judge Sergio Moro has ordered the arrest of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT 'LULA' DEFIES ORDER TO TURN SELF IN
After running for president several times, in 2002 da Silva finally won... READ MORE›
'WE ARE WITHOUT HOPE'
Thursday's Supreme Court decision was met by protests both in favour of and against the former president, representing a deep divide within the country... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN JUDGE ORDERS ARREST OF FORMER PRESIDENT LULA
On Friday morning, Brazil's daily newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported that Lula would not hand himself in... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LULA 'TO DEFY SURRENDER ORDER'
Lula was expected to surrender by late afternoon after the Supreme Court ruled he should not stay free while appealing against his corruption conviction... READ MORE›
JUDGE ORDERS ARREST OF EX-BRAZIL PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA
Judge orders arrest of ex-Brazil president Lula da Silva... READ MORE›
COURT DECISION TO JAIL FORMER PRESIDENT DIVIDES BRAZIL
People in Brazil have been reacting to the news that former president Lula da Silva will have to go to prison on corruption charges... READ MORE›
ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR BRAZIL EX-PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA
Moro said in a statement he would give Lula da Silva the chance to turn himself in because he was a former president... READ MORE›
IN SURPRISE MOVE, BRAZIL JUDGE ORDERS DA SILVA TO SURRENDER, BEGIN PRISON TERM
Da Silva, who grew up poor and with little formal education before becoming a trade union leader and politician, says he will go down fighting... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LEFT SHAKEN BY PROSPECTS OF LULA JAIL, MARKETS RALLY
A defiant Workers Party, founded by Lula, said its supporters would take to the streets to defend his right to run... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LULA FACES JAIL FOR CORRUPTION AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING
Supreme court judges ruled against him by six to five after a marathon session... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva
ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION, POPULARITY NEAR ZERO WHY IS BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT STILL IN OFFICE?
Last month, the government of Temer, Rousseff's former vice-president, plunged to 3 percent in one poll... READ MORE›
OPERATION CAR WASH: THE BIGGEST CORRUPTION SCANDAL EVER?
Zavascki was in the process of reviewing numerous Car Wash testimonies that were expected to further implicate politicians in Brazil and other countries in Latin America... READ MORE›
BRAZILS LEADERS TOUT AUSTERITY (JUST NOT FOR THEM)
Given the volatile political landscape and the weak economy, a sense of hopelessness afflicts many Brazilians... READ MORE›
PEOPLE ARE READY TO BUY SOME GUNS IN THE WORLD'S MURDER CAPITAL
Forty-two percent of Brazilians believe gun ownership is a citizen's right, according to a November survey by pollster Datafolha... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LULA SENTENCED TO PRISON ON CORRUPTION CHARGES
The judge has not asked for the former president's immediate arrest. Lula's lawyers could not be reached for comment... READ MORE›
NO ONE HAS EVER MADE A CORRUPTION MACHINE LIKE THIS ONE
Brazilian police had discovered Odebrecht's accounts in the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda and were pressing authorities there to share them... READ MORE›
RAUL CASTRO ANNOUNCES CUBA WILL BAN THE NAMING OF SITES IN FIDEL CASTRO'S HONOUR
Raul Castro announces Cuba will ban the naming of sites in Fidel Castro's honour... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN POLITICIAN WHO ORCHESTRATED OUSTING OF ROUSSEFF SENTENCED TO PRISON
Former lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha convicted over role in Car Wash corruption scandal and given 15 years in prison, which could be appealed... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT LULA CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION IN OIL KICKBACK SCANDAL
Dallagnol said that Lula, because of his control of the machinery of the Workers' party and the Brazilian government, was the central figure in the scheme... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN COURT BLOCKS ASSETS OF FORMER PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF
At the time Petrobras took control of 50 percent of the refinery, Rousseff was chief of staff to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva... READ MORE›
FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA CONVICTED OF CORRUPTION AND MONEY LAUNDERING
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sentenced to nine years in prison but is expected to appeal... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS BID FAREWELL TO CUBA'S FIDEL CASTRO
President Raul Castro pledges to defend the socialist legacy of his brother Fidel Castro, who died last week aged 90... READ MORE›
WORLD LEADERS MOURN FIDEL CASTRO'S DEATH[1]
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died on Nov 25, 2016 at the age of 90, said his brother Raul, the current leader of Cuba... READ MORE›
UPENDING BRAZILS PRESIDENTIAL RACE, COURT UPHOLDS FORMER LEADERS CONVICTION
Prosecutors have portrayed Mr. da Silva, who has also been charged in six other corruption cases, as a linchpin of Brazil's endemically corrupt political system... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ON EDGE AS APPEALS DECISION NEARS IN EX-PRESIDENT LULA CORRUPTION CASE
Brazil on edge as appeals decision nears in ex-president Lula corruption case... READ MORE›
BRAZIL COULD SEE ANOTHER PRESIDENT EJECTED AFTER COURT APPROVES TEMER INVESTIGATION
President Michel Temer never solicited payments to obtain the silence of former deputy Eduardo Cunha... READ MORE›
ONCE UNDERFED, BRAZIL'S POOR HAVE A NEW PROBLEM
Once underfed, Brazil's poor have a new problem obesity... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S FAR-RIGHT PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER GETS SOFT DRINK NAMED AFTER HIM
And the only name that represents that is Jair Bolsonaro, Michel said... READ MORE›
TENSION GRIPS BRAZIL AS EX-PRESIDENT LULA APPEARS IN COURT ON CORRUPTION CHARGES
Hashtags in support of both Lula and Moro have been trending heavily in Brazil... READ MORE›
MICHEL TEMER 'TAPED APPROVING EDUARDO CUNHA BRIBE'
President Michel Temer never solicited payments to obtain the silence of former deputy Eduardo Cunha, his office said a statement... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN FIRMS TO PAY RECORD $3.5 BILLION PENALTY IN CORRUPTION CASE
Odebrecht and Braskem were charged with conspiring to violate the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which is aimed at deterring companies from bribing officials overseas... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S LOST DECADE: THE INVISIBLE COSTS OF AN EPIC RECESSION
In the north-eastern state of Bahia, local officials blame the lack of school lunches on budget cuts by the federal government... READ MORE›
EX-BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT DA SILVA CONVICTED OF CORRUPTION
Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted and sentenced to nine years and six months in prison for corruption and money laundering... READ MORE›
BRAZIL PRESIDENT FORMALLY ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY AGAINST CORRUPTION INQUIRY
Brazil president formally accused of conspiracy against corruption inquiry... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S EX-PRESIDENT LULA TO STAND TRIAL FOR CORRUPTION IN BRIBERY SCANDAL
Workers' party supporters claim the Lava Jato investigation is politically biased and that most of those accused in other parties will not be held to justice... READ MORE›
OLLANTA HUMALA AND WIFE DETAINED IN CORRUPTION PROBE
The bribes include some 29m paid in Peru for projects built during the administrations of Toledo, Humala and former President Alan Garcia... READ MORE›
BRAZIL COURT UPHOLDS EX-PRESIDENT'S GRAFT CONVICTION
Significant support Brazil's leading financial daily Valor Economico recently published research that suggested at least 50 percent of Lula da Silva voters would back a Lula-picked candidate... READ MORE›
FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA CHARGED IN MASSIVE CORRUPTION SCANDAL
Brazilians had known that Lula was under investigation, and police had recommended charges against him last month for allegedly accepting improper renovations to a seaside apartment... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S TOP COURT RULES THAT EX-PRESIDENT LULA CAN BE JAILED
Weber was seen as the only swing vote and her decision sealed Lula's fate... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S TOP COURT RULES THAT EX-PRESIDENT LULA CAN BE JAILED
Lula is still Brazil's most popular politician, despite his conviction and six separate pending corruption trials... READ MORE›