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World leaders have reacted with shock and dismay to the storming of Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace by thousands of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro. The rioters refuse to acknowledge Bolsonaro’s defeat in recent elections. The former president has not made a public statement explicitly conceding that he lost. In a tweet addressed to Bolsonaro’s successor, the left-wing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote he was “deeply concerned about the news of rioting and vandalism.” “Democratic traditions must be respected by eve…