Brazil launches rowdy Rousseff impeachment debate

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian lawmakers launched a noisy impeachment debate Friday that could topple President Dilma Rousseff, in a political crisis threatening to destabilize the country months before it hosts the Olympics. "This is a historic process, there's no doubt," said House Speaker Eduardo Cunha, one of the leaders of the push to remove Rousseff. Late Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected Rousseff's last-minute bid to have the impeachment proceedings suspended.