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Brazil’s president reeling after hush money claim

BRASÍLIA: Brazil’s President Michel Temer reeled on Thursday from a report that he authorised payment of hush money to a jailed politician in a scandal threatening to plunge Latin America’s biggest country into political meltdown.



Russia launches ferry connection with **rth Korea

MOSCOW: The first ever ferry service linking Russia and **rth Korea was launched on Thursday, the company operating it said, hoping to serve tourists and **rth Korean workers. The ferry will travel weekly between Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok and the **rth Korean port of Rajin, also called Rason, said Vladimir Bara**v, director of InvestStroiTrest, the company that operates the Man Gyong Bong boat that will service the route. Potential passengers include "**rth Koreans coming to work in Russia and tourists from **rthern China who miss the sea because they don’t have their own," Bara**v told AFP. "Also it will service cargo because currently the logistics are horrible, it takes 22 days for cargo to get from Vladivostok to Rajin," he said.

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