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Brazil

Lula to stand trial for corruption

Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must stand trial for corruption, a judge ruled on Tuesday, after prosecutors accused the popular leader of masterminding the large-scale plundering of state oil company Petrobras. The judge accepted charges filed last week by prosecutors investigating Lula - making him the highest-profile figure to face trial in a case that has taken down some of the country's most powerful business executives and politicians. The charges allege that Lula, 70, received the equivalent of $1.1 million in bribes.