Olympic champion Ryan Lochte has been charged for falsely claiming that he and his three team-mates had been robbed at gun point during the Rio Olympics. It was later revealed that Lochte had made up the story.

Brazil, South America’s largest economy, is finally poised to realise its long-anticipated potential as a global player, economists say, as the country rides its biggest economic expansion in three decades. Growth is being felt in nearly all parts of the economy, creating a new class of super rich. A juror for the International Tribunal for Democracy in Brazil wrote a scathing editorial this week denouncing what she calls the illegal government of interim President Michel Temer formed in an attempt by leading members of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) to avoid enhanced enforcement of the country’s corruption laws.

Olympic champion Ryan Lochte has been charged for falsely claiming that he and his three team-mates had been robbed at gun point during the Rio Olympics. It was later revealed that Lochte had made up the story.
Brazil, South America&rsquo;s largest economy, is finally poised to realise its long-anticipated potential as a global player, economists say, as the country rides its biggest economic expansion in three decades. Growth is being felt in nearly all parts of the economy, creating a new class of super rich. A juror for&nbsp;the International Tribunal for&nbsp;Democracy in&nbsp;Brazil wrote a scathing editorial this week denouncing what she calls the illegal government of&nbsp;interim President Michel Temer formed in&nbsp;an attempt by&nbsp;leading members of&nbsp;the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) to&nbsp;avoid enhanced enforcement of&nbsp;the country&rsquo;s corruption laws.

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