Rousseff set for impeachment vote defeat: party

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is on the verge of defeat in her attempt to stave off a vote authorizing the Senate to start an impeachment trial, plunging the deeply divided country into crisis. After four hours of voting the opposition in the lower house of Congress in Brasilia had reached 312 votes -- near its target of 342, or a two-thirds majority, which would send Rousseff to the Senate for the next stage of the process. A senior leader of her Workers' Party said