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Many wish to see the much-maligned president booted, and lawmakers on both sides of the proceedings are openly planning for life without Dilma Demonstrators take part in a protest in front of the supreme court in Brasília on Thursday. Photograph: Beto Barata/AFP/Getty Images Like crowds drawn to

Reports of people trapped inside buildings after second earthquake in as many nights in Kumamoto region A collapsed house on a street in Mashiki after Thursday’s earthquake. A strong quake has struck overnight. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 has struck

Snake expert rejects suggestion that the 7.5m python might have killed itself A python caught in Malaysia and first thought to be the longest snake in captivity has lost both its run at the title and its life. Two people working for the department that trapped the

President suffers damaging setback as committee sets stage for full vote in lower house of Congress later this week Dilma Rousseff faces potential impeachment. Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff began a week that could make or break her administration with a bruising defeat in a

Officials believe public outcry over Panama Papers has given fresh impetus to a crackdown on all tax avoidance Valdis Dombrovskis, European commission vice-president for the euro and social dialogue, argues that tax transparency has ‘rocketed up the agenda’. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Tax avoidance by multinational corporations

Arab Youth Survey finds declining support for extremist group but lack of jobs is seen as main issue driving terrorist recruitment Pro-Isis demonstrators, many of them young men, on a march in Mosul, Iraq. Photograph: Uncredited/AP The vast majority of young Arabs are increasingly rejecting Islamic State

Greece has lifted its suspension of the EU-Turkey migration deal, deporting a second group of migrants to Turkey after a four-day pause amid administrative chaos and civil unrest. Greece began deporting 150 people from the islands of Lesbos, Samos and Kos early on Friday – the first

Macri says he has nothing to hide after prosecutor calls for investigation into his links to an offshore company Argentina’s president, Mauricio Macri, is among scores of international politicians and business figures named in the leak of Mossack Fonseca documents. Photograph: Handout/Reuters Jonathan Watts Latin America correspondent

Papal document calls for Catholic church to revamp its response to modern family life, but remains firmly anti-abortion Pope Francis says ‘every person, regardless of sexual orientation, ought to be respected’. Photograph: Giorgio Onorati/EPA Pope Francis has called for the Catholic church to revamp its response to

The threat from terrorists trying to launch a nuclear attack that would “change our world” is real, President Barack Obama has said. The world has taken “concrete” steps to prevent nuclear terrorism, he told the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. But the so-called Islamic State (IS) obtaining