Website for Brazil’s President Temer hacked

A website for the Brazilian president has been hacked, plastered with messages calling for the death penalty for legislators in a country where many are frustrated with public corruption. FILE – In this Dec. 7, 2016 file photo, Brazil’s President Michel Temer arrives to take part in a ceremony at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil.

Rio Gives Up on Olympic Pledge as Bay Clean-Up Workers Fired

Rio de Janeiro is abandoning its promise to treat the raw sewage polluting the Guanabara Bay as workers building a pipeline network and treatment plant are being fired and the state sinks into fiscal crisis. A $450 million loan agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank to build the infrastructure needed to collect and treat sewage will expire in March and the Brazilian Treasury won’t allow its extension, according to Rio’s environment secretariat.