Brazil VP faces grilling:

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General view of Medellin, Antioquia department, blanketed by smog on April 1. City authorities declared an environmental emergency due to high pollution levels. (AFP)

An ally of embattled President Dilma Rousseff on Friday filed an impeachment petition against Vice President Michel Temer, citing testimony that implicates him in the sprawling corruption scandal shaking Brazil’s political class.

The move by Cid Gomes, who briefly served as education minister in Rousseff’s Cabinet, comes as it appears increasingly likely that Rousseff herself will be impeached on allegations she broke fiscal laws.

If she is impeached, Vice President Temer would be first in line to replace her, although his name has been cited by several operators in the snowballing probe into corruption at the state-run oil company Petrobras. In a sign of how much Brazil’s political class has been tainted by scandal, the heads of the lower house and Senate, second and third in the line of succession, are also embroiled in the scandal. They all deny

wrongdoing. (AP)

Cuban migration to US up:

Nearly twice as many Cuban migrants reached the US by foot and sea in the last three months of 2015 as in the same period the year earlier, the northbound exodus swelling after the restoration of diplomatic relations and amid fears of the loss of migration privileges.

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