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• Best lesson yet in Brazil's anti-graft drive
• Year after coup, Turkey's opposition on the march. But to where?
• For foreign reporters, hints of 'House of Cards' in 'Trump Show'

Best lesson yet in Brazil's anti-graft drive Posted: 14 Jul 2017 11:26 AM PDT President Barack Obama once called him "the most popular politician on earth." But on July 12, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sentenced to almost a decade in prison for corruption and money laundering. Known widely as Lula, he is the biggest fish caught so far in a graft probe that has spread across dozens of countries and snared dozens of politicians. The current Brazilian president, Michel Temer, also faces corruption allegations while his predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached last year under a cloud of suspicion over a massive kickback scheme involving the state-owned oil company Petrobras.

Year after coup, Turkey's opposition on the march. But to where? Posted: 14 Jul 2017 10:23 AM PDT The crowd stretched for as far as the eye could see: the biggest flag-waving Turkish opposition rally in many years. Recommended: Think you know Turkey? This weekend marks the anniversary of last summer's failed coup, which Erdoğan's critics say he has exploited to fortify his own power and crack down on a range of political opponents.

For foreign reporters, hints of 'House of Cards' in 'Trump Show' Posted: 14 Jul 2017 08:11 AM PDT Sean Spicer, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller – all are players in the palace intrigue known as the Trump White House. Chinese TV viewers can't get enough of the "Trump Show," and coverage of America in general, says Ching-Yi Chang, White House correspondent for Shanghai Media Group.

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