Brazil news

• Brazil police storm Congress over proposal to raise retirement age

  19-04-2017 04:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Pension changes spark violence in Brasilia as police union members clash with congressional security forcesCongressional police in riot gear used tear gas to drive back hundreds of members of federal police unions who tried to invade the Brazilian Congress on Tuesday to protest against a pension reform bill that would reduce their benefits.The demonstrators broke glass doors before being pushed back in a violent clash that underscored the unpopularity of the pension reform President Michel Temer
  
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• Brazil’s top court names football league champions – 30 years on

  19-04-2017 02:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Supreme court panel rules that Sport Recife beat Flamengo to 1987 title after decades-long dispute over parallel competitionsMost football matches are decided within 90 minutes, give or take a few minutes of injury time. But in the case of a 1987 Brazilian league championship, it has taken 30 years and a supreme court ruling for the winner to be named. Three decades after the match, a five-member panel of the country’s supreme court ruled on Tuesday that Sport Recife beat Rio de Janeiro gi
  
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