Newsweek 3/25/2016

São Paulo—Protesters calling for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff surround an inflatable doll of her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during one of several protests across the nation on March 13. Crowds reached 1.4 million at the peak of the demonstration, according to São Paulo’s state security office. Opponents blame Rousseff for the worsening economic crisis and accuse her of involvement in a sweeping corruption scandal. Brazilian prosecutors are seeking Lula’s arrest after filing charges against him that include money laundering.…

Dayton, Ohio—U.S. Secret Service agents detain Thomas diMassimo, 22, who jumped a barricade trying to rush the stage at a rally for Republican front-runner Donald Trump at Dayton International Airport on March 12. Earlier that week, clashes between protesters and supporters forced Trump’s campaign to cancel an event in Chicago, and a supporter sucker-punched a protester in the face at a rally in North Carolina. Addressing the increasing violence at his events during a GOP debate on March 10, Trump said his supporters come with “tremendous passion and love for the country” and that some protesters are “bad dudes.”…

Ankara, Turkey—Emergency workers examine the site of an explosion on March 13. At least 37 people were killed and 125 wounded in a car bombing in the Turkish capital, the second such attack in under a month. Though no group immediately claimed responsibility, Turkey quickly launched airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, blaming the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, for the attack. Security officials told Reuters one of two suspected attackers was a woman from the group, which has been fighting for Kurdish autonomy for three decades.…

Simi Valley, California—The Reverend Stuart Kenworthy, vicar at the Washington National Cathedral, leads a procession during the funeral for former first lady Nancy Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on March 11. One of the most politically active first ladies in U.S. history, she became known for her “just say no” anti-drug campaign, as she pushed for stronger law enforcement and expanded education during the nation’s crack-cocaine epidemic. In her later years, she became an advocate for finding a cure for Alzheimer’s, a disease her husband battled for years before his death in 2004.…

FOR THE PAST two years, while he was languishing in Tehran’s Evin Prison, the world seemed to forget Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani. But he returned to the headlines on March 6, when an Iranian court sentenced him to death. Zanjani’s story is that of a man who came from nowhere and amassed mind-boggling wealth providing illicit services to Iran’s government, in the biggest publicly known money-laundering scheme in the country’s memory. His demise was quick and brutal. Zanjani had a solution to one of Iran’s biggest problems. For years, he helped the government evade international sanctions against its nuclear program and sell oil on the global market. When the West imposed sanctions on him, his venture ended abruptly. After a change in government, he was arrested and accused of withholding $2.7 billion…

“THE COMBINATION OF LIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY IS EXHAUSTED.” MARIAN KOTLEBA used to wear a uniform modeled on the militia of Slovakia’s wartime Nazi puppet state. He opposes Western democracy, the European Union and NATO. He rails against the Roma people and openly admires Jozef Tiso, the Catholic priest and wartime leader who permitted tens of thousands of Jews to be deported to Nazi death camps. In the post–World War II era, European politics have seen a long series of extremists, generally raging on the sidelines and creating a lot of noise while wielding limited power. But Kotleba, the leader of the extreme-right People’s Party-Our Slovakia, is no longer confined to the fringes. More than 200,000 people voted for his party in elections on March 5, including 23 percent of first-time voters, giving…