Brazil's Rousseff scrambles for votes to avert impeachment and other top stories.

• Brazil's Rousseff scrambles for votes to avert impeachment

  BRASILIA Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff held last-minute negotiations with wavering lawmakers on Saturday in an effort to secure crucial support the day before an impeachment vote that could lead to her removal from office.The political crisis has divided the country and turned into a bitter clash between the leftist leader and her centrist Vice President Michel Temer, who would take over if she is unseated.Rousseff canceled an appearance at an anti-impeachment rally of union and left-wing..

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• Five dead 'from drugs' at Argentina electronic music event

  

    But they were not enough, and the emergency services brought in six. "There were a great deal of people. It was really hot inside. You could not be in there, literally," a young man who gave his name as Federico told TN news channel. He said he left the event five minutes before it closed at 6:00 am, with no idea of the unfolding tragedy. Another at the festival, Ignacio, told C5N TV that "people were offering drugs, pills, acid. They tried to sell me drugs four times." It was the third Time ..

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• German Broadcaster Protests Government's Decision to Allow Prosecution of Comedian

  

  German public broadcaster ZDF is standing up for satirist Jan Boehmermann, who could face criminal charges for reading an insulting poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on German television.Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is receiving heavy criticism from members of her cabinet for ceding to Ankara's demands on Friday by giving prosecutors the green light to pursue charges against Boehmermann.In the poem, Boehmermann muses over the size of Erdogan's penis, and suggests t..

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• 9 Guantanamo Bay detainees, including one who waged a long hunger strike, are sent to Saudi Arabia

  

  The razor wire-topped fence and a watch tower at the abandoned Camp X-Ray detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images) A detainee who had been on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay for nine years has been transferred out of the facility, the Obama administration announced Saturday. According to a statement from the Defense Department, Tariq Ba Odah of Yemen has been transferred into Saudi Arabian custody along with eight other detainees, bringing the total nu..

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• Pope Francis takes refugees back to Rome following provocative and emotional Lesbos visit

  

  MYTILENE, Greece — For the hundreds of thousands of desperate migrants who have made landfall on this verdant jewel in the Aegean Sea over the past year, there had been only two ways off the island: a ferry bound for a new life deeper in Europe or a deportation order that led straight back across the sea. But that was before Saturday, when Pope Francis whisked in and pioneered a third: a ride with him on a jet bound for Rome. The Pope’s visit to the Greek island of Lesbos had already been emot..

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