A Brazilian Senate committee voted to recommend the full upper house remove suspended president Dilma Rousseff from office in an impeachment trial, sending the nation's political drama into its end game.
Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vowed she would fight to prove her innocence after the Senate voted to put her on trial for breaking budget laws.
A top judge in Brazil ruled on Friday that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should be stripped of a ministerial role so he can be investigated for graft, minutes after the ex-president rallied tens of thousands of supporters behind embattled President Dilma Rousseff.
