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Politics this week

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A general election in Ireland produced a shock win for Sinn Fein, formerly the political wing of the IRA , a terrorist group.
The party took the most first-choice votes, but ended up coming second in terms of seats in the Dail (parliament).
Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, gave the final approval to continue HS2 , a high-speed rail link between London and northern cities.
Mr Trump had earlier tweeted that he thought the prosecutors’ recommendation was “horrible and unfair”.
It beat the bookies’ favourite, “1917”, to scoop best picture, the first foreign film to do so, and best director.

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The country’s homicide rate, one of the world’s highest, has fallen since Mr Bukele became president in June. Brazil’s justice minister, Sérgio Moro, quit after the country’s populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, sacked the head of the federal police. The scheduled launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area on July 1st was postponed indefinitely because of the outbreak of covid-19. Captain Crozier was fired for going outside official channels to ask for help amid an outbreak of covid-19 on his ship. A team that had been deployed to the city to oversee its fight against the outbreak returned to Beijing.
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Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has dismissed covid-19 as “sniffles”, spoke outside the army’s headquarters at a rally against lockdowns. Georgia’s governor went as far as allowing cinemas and restaurants to resume service from April 27th, subject to social-distancing rules. A man dressed as a royal Canadian mounted policeman murdered at least 22 people in a shooting spree in Nova Scotia. He said he was doing this to protect American workers from foreign competition during the crisis, but he backed away from stopping visas for guest workers after businesses complained that they would suffer. Coronavirus briefsOfficials in Wuhan, the Chinese city where covid-19 was first detected, raised the death toll there by 50%, to 3,869.
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