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Brazil deploys national guard after senator shot in strike

by Associated Press
| February 19, 2020 6:30 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian senator was shot Wednesday as he tried to intervene in a strike by military police demanding higher salaries in the northeastern state of Ceara, prompting authorities to deploy federal forces.

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