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Brazilians Re-elect Dilma Rousseff as President

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected to a second term to lead the world's fifth-most populous nation. With 98 percent of the vote counted, Rousseff won 51.5 percent of the ballots over her opponent, center-right senator Aecio Neves. The vote is widely seen as an endorsement of Rousseff's Workers' Party, which has held the presidency since 2003. The party is credited with expanding social welfare programs and lifting millions out of poverty to the middle...

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