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Brazil’s Lula turns himself in to police after anxious showdown

Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio « Lula » da Silva has handed himself over to police to begin a 12-year prison sentence for corruption, according to local media. The 72-year-old left on Saturday the steel-workers union building where he had sought refuge while defying for some 24 hours a court deadline to submit to custody. Lula was taken…