Dilma Rousseff Ousted as Brazil’s President After Impeachment Vote: What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today:
1. Dilma Rousseff impeached in historic Brazilian trial
“The Senate on Wednesday impeached Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, and removed her from office for the rest of her term, the capstone of a power struggle that has consumed the nation for months and toppled one of the hemisphere’s most powerful political parties.
“The Senate voted 61 to 20 to convict Ms. Rousseff on charges of manipulating the federal budget in an effort to conceal the nation’s mounting economic problems.”
+1: From Quartz: Dilma Rousseff’s demise is five charts.
2. Self-driving cars will be the end of transportation
“Our future passenger experience might bear little resemblance to either driving or riding; we’ll inhabit a space that only coincidentally happens to be in motion.” Snapchat’s Real Life Magazine looks at the coming transportation apocalypse.
3. With PrimeAir, is Amazon set to take on FedEx next?
“For UPS and FedEx, Amazon’s been great for business. Now it’s taking business away from them.”
4. Two Canadian woman facing life in prison after $30m cocaine bust in Australia
“A 63-year-old man, Andre Tamine, was also arrested after the AFP and sniffer dogs found another 60kg of cocaine in his cabin.
“Australian authorities have not revealed if Andre Tamine is a part of the same group but have said all three suspects have been charged with importing a commercial quantity of cocaine.”
+1: A massive amount of cocaine was found at a Coca-Cola plant in France.
5. We’re running out of ways to treat gonorrhea
“The U.N. health agency released new guidelines warning doctors that it no longer recommends an entire class of antibiotics, quinolones, because quinolone-resistant strains of the disease have emerged all over the world. Instead, the health agency recommends using cephalosporins, another class of antibiotic. The new protocol replaces guidelines that had not been changed since 2003. According to the WHO, 78 million people are infected with gonorrhea every year.”
