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Convoy leads Canada fire evacuees through burning city to safety

WANDERING RIVER, Alberta,  (Reuters) – Convoys of evacuees stranded by a wildfire raging unchecked in and around the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray made their way yesterday through the heart of the devastation on the only highway out of the region, passing through the city’s charred ruins.

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Brazil Supreme Court removes lower house speaker Cunha

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court removed the speaker of the lower house of Congress yesterday on charges of obstructing a corruption investigation, days before an impeachment process that he engineered was expected to oust President Dilma Rousseff.

Canadian wildfire grows tenfold, forces more evacuations

CONKLIN/LAC LA BICHE, Alberta, (Reuters) – A catastrophic wildfire that has forced all 88,000 residents to flee Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada exploded tenfold in size yesterday, cutting off evacuees in camps north of the city and putting communities to the south in extreme danger.

Top prosecutor asks to investigate Brazil president

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s top prosecutor has asked the Supreme Court to open an investigation of President Dilma Rousseff for trying to obstruct a massive corruption probe involving state-run oil firm Petrobras, Globo News reported yesterday.

Unloved Hollande courts the French anew

PARIS (Reuters) – “Je ne t’aime plus, mon amour” — “I don’t love you any more, my love” — was the wistful song of a love gone cold which greeted devotees of President Francois Hollande as they arrived at a rally for him last week.

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