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BBC News with Suman Gamry.

A court in Brazil has unanimously rejected an appeal by the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was convicted last year of corruption and money laundering. The three judges said the former president had broken the law by accepting a seafront apartment from a construction company involved in a major corruption scheme. They have increased his original sentence form nine-and-a-half years to just over 12 years in jail. A senior party adviser in Lula's Brazilian Workers' Party Diegost Gundoner told the BBC the case against Lula was a part of a wider campaign against democracy by the Judiciary.

What the Brazilian Workers' Party understand is that this goes beyond Lula's case as well. Relief in the country where the Judiciary is taking actions that go beyond our constitution and that can be replicated by other judges in different cases against other Brazilians as well. So, we perceive this not as only the defense of Lula but the defense of our democracy and the defense of our laws.

The former doctor for the US Gymnastics team Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 175 years in jail for sexually molesting teenage athletes. The judge said Nassar remained a danger to young women. Marty Toffy has more details.

Judge Rosemarie Aquilina told Narry Nassar: "I just signed your death warrant." During the past week an extraordinary emotional sentence in hearing, nearly 160 of Nassar's victims confronted him and shared their stories of how the former doctor gained their trust and then sexually assaulted them under the guide of medical treatment. After the sentencing, the US Olympic Committee announced an independent third party would examine how an abuse of this proportion could gone undetected for so long.

The Veteran American Diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up in Myanmar to advise on communal tension in Rakhine State. He said the group rather than address the routes of the Rohingya crisis, was acting like a cheerleading squad for government policy.

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