RIO DE JANEIRO — The last medals have been handed out, the ath-letes have all gone home and the fireworks at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium are fading into memory. Now Brazil’s real drama begins.

Just days after the clos-ing ceremony of the Rio Olympics, Brazilian sen-ators are about to decide whether to permanent-ly remove President Dil-ma Rousseff from office, the climax of a months-long political battle that has laid bare deep polar-ization in Latin America’s largest nation.

Today, the Senate be-gins the final phase of the trial of Rousseff, who was suspended in May for allegedly breaking

fiscal rules in manag-ing the federal budget. Several days of deliber-ations will culminate in a definitive vote expect-ed early next week.

Rousseff’s opponents argue that she used sleight of hand budget-

ing to mask the depth of government deficits and exacerbated the growing economic crisis, which has led to 10 per-cent inflation, daily an-nouncements of layoffs and credit downgrades from ratings agencies.

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey on Wednesday launched its first major ground assault into Syr-ia since the country’s civil war began, sending in tanks and special forces backed by U.S. airstrikes to help Syrian rebels retake a border town from Is-lamic State militants.

The surprise incursion to cap-ture the town of Jarablus was a dramatic escalation of Turkey’s role in Syria’s war. But its objec-tive went beyond fighting ex-tremists. Turkey is also aiming to contain expansion by Syria’s Kurds, who are also backed by the United States and have used the fight against IS and the cha-os of the civil war to seize nearly the entire stretch of the border with Turkey in northern Syria.

That raises the potential for explosive frictions between two American allies. U.S. Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden flew into Ankara hours after the offensive, and he backed Turkey with a stern warn-ing to the Kurds to stay east of the Euphrates River, which crosses from Turkey into Syria at Jarablus.

Turkey makes first big ground assault against IS in Syria

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MoScoW — A man who claimed to have a bomb seized a bank in the center of Mos-cow and took four people hos-tage Wednesday evening, but he surrendered peacefully a few hours later, police said.

Russian news organizations identified the man as a 55-year-old bankrupt businessman who in recent years had made nu-merous appeals to the govern-ment to do more to help those in bankruptcy.

In a video shown on Russian state television, he was seen in-side a citibank branch with a box wrapped in yellow tape hang-ing from his neck. He claimed the box was a bomb, but police said it turned out to be a fake.

Police: Bankrupt businessman seizes Moscow bank, then surrenders

ToRoNTo — canada’s nation-al police force recently permit-ted its women officers to wear the hijab.

The commissioner of the Roy-al canadian Mounted Police re-cently approved the change in policy, allowing Muslim women to wear the garment, a veil that covers the head and chest, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale’s spokesman said Wednesday.

Scott Bardsley said it is intend-ed to better reflect the diversi-ty of canada and to encourage more Muslim women to consid-er a career with the force.

The Mounties faced a public backlash more than 25 years ago when a Sikh man took the gov-ernment to court and won the right to wear his traditional tur-ban instead of the usual Mountie headgear. canadians have long since accepted the change.

Canadian Mounties allow officers to wear hijab

JoHANNESBURG — South Af-rican anti-apartheid campaign-er Archbishop Emeritus des-mond Tutu’s family foundation says that he has admitted him-self to a cape Town hospital for treatment of a recurring infection.

The statement issued late Wednesday by his foundation said the Nobel Peace Prize win-ner is expected to remain in the hospital for a week or two. Tutu underwent similar treatment last year. The archbishop’s daugh-ter, Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe, said updated information will be re-leased when it is available.

South African Archbishop Tutu back in hospital

Powerful quake shakes central MyanmarYANGON, Myanmar — A

powerful earthquake shook Myanmar on Wednesday, killing at least four people and damag-ing nearly two hundred ancient Buddhist pagodas in the former capital of Bagan, a major tour-ist site, officials said.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.8 quake was centered about 15 miles west of Chauk, a town south of Bagan. It was located fairly far below the Earth’s surface at a depth of about 52 miles, it said. Deep earthquakes gener-

ally cause less surface damage.At least 185 brick pagodas in

Bagan were damaged, the state newspaper reported. Bagan, also known as Pagan, has more than 2,200 structures includ-ing pagodas and temples con-structed from the 10th to the 14th centuries. Many are in dis-repair while others have been restored in recent years, aid-ed by the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO.

The vast site is the country’s premier attraction for tourists, who can view a panorama of temples stretching to the ho-rizon flanked by the mighty Ir-

rawaddy River, an especially impressive experience at sun-set.

Dr. Myo Thant, general sec-retary of the Myanmar Earth-quake Committee, said other areas apparently were not bad-ly affected.

Police officer Htay Win in Pa-kokku, about 45 miles from the epicenter, said one person there had been killed and one injured. “The person was killed by falling bricks from a build-ing,” he said.

The Ministry of Social Wel-fare, Relief and Resettlement reported two other deaths in

nearby Thitapwe village.U.N. spokesman Stephane

Dujarric said Secretary-Gen-eral Ban Ki-moon was “sad-dened” by the loss of life and damage from the earthquake and expressed his condolenc-es to the “people and govern-ment” of Myanmar.

He said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitari-an Affairs was in contact with authorities in Myanmar and along with its partners stands ready to support the govern-ment and local organizations “should any humanitarian sup-port be needed.”

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American University in Afghanistan attacked

KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants attacked the American University of Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding an-other 18, officials said.

AP photographer Massoud Hos-saini was in a classroom with 15 stu-dents when he heard an explosion on the southern flank of the campus.

“I went to the window to see what was going on, and I saw a person in normal clothes outside. He shot at me and shattered the glass,” Hossaini said, adding that he fell on the glass and cut his hands.

The students then barricaded themselves inside the classroom, pushing chairs and desks against the

door, and staying on the floor. Hos-saini said at least two grenades were thrown into the classroom, wound-ing several of his classmates.

Hossaini and about nine students later managed to escape from the campus through an emergency gate.

“As we were running I saw some-one lying on the ground face down, they looked like they had been shot in the back,” he said.

Hossaini and the other students took refuge in a residential house near the campus, and were later safely evacuated by Afghan security forces.

Hedayatullah Stanikzai, an official with the Ministry of Public Health, said a guard employed by the uni-versity had been killed and that the wounded included a foreign teacher.

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N. Korean submarine missile launch shows improved ability

SEOUL, South Ko-rea — A ballistic mis-sile fired from a North Korean submarine on Wednesday flew about 310 miles, the longest distance achieved by the North for such a weapon, Seoul offi-cials said, putting all of South Korea, and possi-bly parts of Japan, with-in its striking distance.

North Korea already has a variety of land-based missiles that can hit South Korea and Japan, including U.S. military bases in those countries. But its de-velopment of reliable submarine-launched missiles would add weapons that are hard-er to detect before lift-off.

South Korea’s mili-tary condemned the launch as an “armed protest” by North Ko-rea against the start of annual South Korean-U.S. military drills, but acknowledged it was

an improvement over previous tests of simi-lar missiles.

“North Korea’s nucle-ar and missile threats are not imaginary threats any longer, but they’re now becoming real threats,” South Korean President Park Geun-hye said of the launch. “Those threats are coming closer each moment.”

North Korean lead-er Kim Jong Un called the missile test the “suc-cess of all successes,” according to the offi-cial state news agency KNCA. Kim said the launch effectively arms the country with fully-equipped nuclear at-tack capability and puts the U.S. mainland with-in its striking distance.

The United Nations Security Council was holding emergency closed consultations on the launch late Wednes-day afternoon at the request of the United States and Japan.

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Rio Olympics over, final decision on Brazilian president looms

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U.N. chief: Review potential new info on Hammarskjold death

UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for a review of potential new information, includ-ing from South Africa, on the mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed U.N. Secretary-Gener-al Dag Hammarskjold.

Ban recommended in a note to the U.N. Gen-eral Assembly circulated Wednesday that either he or the 193-member world body should appoint “an eminent person or per-sons” to conduct the re-view and “determine the scope that any further inquiry or investigation should take.”

The General Assem-bly unanimously ad-opted a resolution last November urging all countries — especially the United States, Brit-

ain and South Africa — to release all informa-tion on the crash in what is now Zambia while Hammarskjold was on a peace mission to new-ly independent Congo.

“This may be our last chance to find the truth,” Ban reiterated. “Seeking a complete understanding of the circumstances is our solemn duty to my illus-trious and distinguished predecessor, Dan Ham-marskjold, to the other members of the party accompanying him, and to their families.”

An independent pan-el reviewing new infor-mation about the crash said in July 2015 that the United States and Britain retained some classified files, and that South Africa had not re-sponded to several re-quests for information.

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ASSocIATEd PRESSAP Photographer Massoud Hossaini, front center, explains his experience during the at-tack on the campus of the American University in Afghanistan to his colleagues and rela-tives on Wednesday.

ASSocIATEd PRESSBrazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff talks with a couple of girls during a rally in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday.

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