Brazil: Violent crime up in state hit by police strike
(World News Brazil)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Violent crime has been rising in Brazil’s northeastern state of Ceara amid a police strike in its seventh day, federal Justice Minister Sergio Moro said Monday. Security officials said the state had recorded 147 homicides in the past five days, a fivefold increase from the same five-day period last year. “There are...