Brazilian investigators say politicians and the head of the national Olympic committee arranged a $2 million bribe to bring the 2016 games to Rio de Janeiro, despite the city having the worst conditions to host the event.
Police used stun grenades and tear gas to clear protesters in the path of the Olympic torch in a poor suburb of Rio, two days before South America’s first Olympic Games open under tight security.
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