The last case against lula to be shelved because of tainted evidence was about swedish plans. A survey early this year found that just over half of those who were asked, and 22 percent of those who had voted for lula's party, the workers party, did not believe that the archiving in one of these cases against lula proved his innocence. Other cases could be revived by the federal court, but that would take years.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left office with a sky-high approval rating, having raised millions from poverty—but was then convicted of corruption. Now he wants his old job back. Forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields, once widespread, is swiftly vanishing. And an old hypothesis confirmed: birds get more colourful the closer they live to the equator.
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