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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

There is growing concern over a lack of preparation for the plan to send migrants back from Greece to Turkey, two days before it goes into effect. A BBC correspondent who has been to one of the registration sites in Turkey says there are few signs it

Syrian troops have found a mass grave containing about 40 bodies in the city of Palmyra following its recapture from the Islamic State (IS) group, state news agency Sana reports. The grave containing the bodies of men, women and children was uncovered on the north-eastern edge of

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for an end to fighting after clashes broke out in the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh. TV pictures showed a burned out vehicle and craters after a night of gunfire and heavy shelling. Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of starting