Brazilian senate to impeach Dilma Rouseff

Brazil’s senate voted to impeach president Dilma Rousseff after a months-long fight that laid raw the country’s fury over corruption and economic decay, hurling Latin America’s largest country into political turmoil just months before it hosts the Olympics.

Ms Rousseff’s enraged backers called the move a coup d’etat and threatened wide-scale protests and strikes.

Her foes, meanwhile, insisted that she had broken the law, and that the country’s deep political, social and economic woes could only be tackled without her.