BRASÍLIA: Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) rejected an attempt by President Michel Temer to have the prosecutor leading a corruption probe against him removed from the case.

Temer’s lawyers asked for Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot to be removed, arguing he is mounting an “obsessive persecution” and “greatly exceeding the constitutional and legal limits.”

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