Brazil sends armed forces to north-east to quell violence from police strike

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Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has dispatched army and national guard troops to the north-eastern state of Ceari in an attempt to quell a brewing security crisis triggered by a police officers' strike.

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