Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won re-election on Sunday, October 25, according to the article. His conservative rival, Flávio Bolsonaro, refused to accept the result and said he would seek to annul the vote.
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Lula won Brazil’s presidential election runoff on October 25.
The article describes Lula’s win as his fourth term.
As Israel approaches an election, immigrants who moved there from the United States and Italy express sharply different views about Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s political direction. One recent immigrant supports Netanyahu, citing his experience and ties with Washington, while another wants a change in government because of the human and economic costs of recent years and what he sees as an unequal military burden.
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A Maariv poll published October 23 projected 48 seats for Netanyahu’s coalition parties and 54 for the main opposition bloc.
Neither bloc reached the 61 seats needed for a majority in Israel’s 120-seat Knesset, according to the poll.
A September Israel Democracy Institute survey found that foreign affairs and security were the top electoral concerns among Jewish respondents identifying with the right.
The survey found that economic concerns led among centrists, while religion-and-state issues ranked first among respondents on the left.
Jen Aziz, 36, moved from New York to Israel this summer and said she plans to vote for Netanyahu.
Aziz said Netanyahu’s relationship with the United States and joint military operations against Iran’s nuclear facilities influenced her support.
Isaac Levy, 32, moved from Milan to Israel in 2012 and wants a change of government.
Levy cited recent human and economic costs and criticized what he described as an unequal distribution of military responsibilities.
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The article compares student-led protests in several countries and says their chances of political success differ. It describes Serbia’s student movement as having defeated the party of Aleksandar Vučić, while protests in Albania and France face different political obstacles and have produced limited or early concessions.
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The article says Serbia’s student movement protested for nearly two years before winning a parliamentary victory.
The article says the movement has no conventional leader or governing experience, and that its ability to govern is uncertain.
In Albania, protests began over a luxury resort development and expanded to include concerns about alleged corruption, unemployment and education.
Albanian protesters are demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation and a transitional government.
Rama’s Socialist Party won 83 of Albania’s 140 parliamentary seats in May 2025, according to the article.
In France, school blockades and demonstrations have focused on teacher shortages, school conditions and the university admissions system.
France’s Interior Ministry counted 410,000 participants in a recent demonstration, while unions estimated as many as 800,000.
The French government pledged to deploy about 3,000 substitute teachers, and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu planned to meet student representatives.
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Delegations from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met Iranian officials in Tehran to discuss preventing renewed conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel. The talks also addressed regional security arrangements and Iran’s possible role in a security pact, amid rising military tensions and efforts by Qatar to negotiate terms for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
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The delegations included Saudi Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalın.
The officials were expected to discuss Iran’s influence over Houthi attacks on infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.
The meeting followed a defence agreement signed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey in Mecca in August.
Iran has advocated a regional security pact that includes Iran and reduces reliance on the United States.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the meeting could support broader regional security cooperation.
The article reports continued US military buildup and says Qatari mediators were in Tehran discussing terms for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The article says Iran has attacked US bases and energy infrastructure in Gulf states in response to US-Israeli operations.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election, while Bolsonaro sought to have the result annulled. The article also reports Israeli forces sealing off parts of Hebron and displacing residents, and Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola sustaining minor injuries in a car crash.
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Lula won Brazil’s presidential election, which the article describes as his fourth term.
Flávio Bolsonaro refused to concede and cited extended voting hours in seeking to annul the result.
The article says international leaders were recognizing Lula’s victory.
Israeli forces sealed off Hebron after a gun attack at a military checkpoint that killed two Israeli soldiers.
Hebron’s municipality said 370 families, nearly 2,000 people, had been displaced; the Israeli army said residents left voluntarily.
Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola suffered minor injuries in a car crash while traveling to a campaign stop.
Peltola’s family and the occupant of the other vehicle were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Justice Department defended a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s Senate results if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.
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Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority staff warned that Woodside Energy’s proposed Browse gas project could cause serious or irreversible harm to Scott Reef, including risks to endangered turtles, whales and coral. The state and federal assessments are ongoing, and environment ministers will make the final approval decisions.
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A 2023 draft letter prepared for the Western Australian EPA board criticized Woodside’s plans to protect marine life and manage oil-spill risks.
The EPA told Woodside in February 2024 that its preliminary view was to reject the project.
Browse is about 300 kilometres off the Kimberley coast, and Scott Reef supports more than 1,500 species.
Woodside plans to drill more than 50 wells and send gas through a 1,000-kilometre pipeline to the North West Shelf processing plant.
Woodside added explosive-driven shear rams to its plans, saying they could help seal a leaking well within seconds; a company spokesperson said a backup capping stack could stop oil flow within 16 days.
EPA staff warned that a leak lasting 13 days could cause irreversible consequences for Scott Reef.
The draft letter said seabed subsidence could threaten Sandy Islet, where about 1,000 endangered green turtles breed each year, and described a plan to add sand to the islet as high risk.
Woodside needs approval from state and federal environmental authorities; environment ministers hold the final decision-making power.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s presidential election with 51.79% of the vote, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, who received 48.21%. Lula’s victory gives him a fourth term, running until 2030; Bolsonaro has called for the result to be annulled, but legal experts cited in the article said that outcome is unlikely.
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Lula won 51.79% of the vote, compared with Flávio Bolsonaro’s 48.21%.
The candidates were separated by about 4.4 million votes.
Bolsonaro won the first round on 4 October with 47% of the vote, while Lula received 45%.
Lula is the first Brazilian president since the return to civilian rule in 1985 to win after losing the first round.
Voting was extended by two hours following requests from both campaigns, citing transport problems and heavy rain.
Supreme Court President Kassio Nunes Marques said the extension did not affect the count or electoral process.
Bolsonaro refused to recognize the result and called for it to be annulled; legal experts said annulment was unlikely.
Lula’s fourth term will last until 2030.
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Polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition trailing ahead of Israel’s first election since the Gaza war began. The report does not provide poll figures or details about the election date.
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Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel’s prime minister.
Polls cited in the report show Netanyahu’s coalition trailing.
The upcoming election will be Israel’s first since the war in Gaza began.
The report does not give polling numbers.
The report does not state when the election will take place.
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A France 24 segment examines the challenges Brazil’s election poses for democratic institutions after Jair Bolsonaro refused to concede, according to the headline. Guest Dr. Pedro Perfeito da Silva says Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory came from digital organizing, grassroots campaigning, targeted economic appeals and drawing support from voters who had been skeptical of the government.
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The segment was issued on October 26, 2026.
The headline links Bolsonaro’s refusal to concede with serious challenges to Brazil’s democratic institutions.
The program’s guest was Dr. Pedro Perfeito da Silva, a Latin American specialist at the University of Exeter.
Perfeito da Silva said Lula’s campaign combined digital organizing and grassroots mobilization.
He said the campaign made targeted socioeconomic appeals.
He said Lula attracted some voters who had been skeptical of the government in the first round.
Related headlines describe Lula as winning a historic fourth term and defeating Bolsonaro in the runoff.
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Benjamin Netanyahu has long campaigned on the promise that he is the only leader who can keep Israel safe. As Israelis vote in the country’s first election since the October 7 Hamas attacks and the start of the Gaza war, that message may be less effective, according to the report.
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Netanyahu is Israel’s longest-serving prime minister.
Netanyahu has campaigned on a promise to keep Israel safe.
Israelis are voting in the first election since the October 7 Hamas attacks.
The election follows the start of the war in Gaza.
The report says Netanyahu’s security-focused strategy may be less effective in this election.
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Serbia’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party lost a parliamentary election to a grassroots student movement after nearly two years of protests, ending Aleksandar Vucic’s 14-year dominance of Serbian politics. The protests began after a train-station canopy collapse killed 16 people in 2024, and the student movement campaigned against corruption, cronyism and organized crime.
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Vucic conceded his party’s defeat on Sunday.
The student movement led protests for nearly two years before winning the election.
The protests began after a canopy collapsed at a renovated train station in northern Serbia, killing 16 people.
Vucic campaigned with favorable state-media coverage, attacks on opponents, cash payments to voters and promises of higher pensions, roads and cheaper medicines.
Vucic blamed foreign interference for the result, citing European countries and what he called the “deep American state.”
Vucic began his political career as an ultranationalist and later presented himself as pro-European while also maintaining ties with Russia.
Vucic refused to join European Union sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine while Serbia pursued EU membership.
Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow hoped Serbia’s next government would maintain friendly relations with Russia.
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Israel is holding its first parliamentary election since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. The election will affect Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future and how voters assess the attacks.
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Israel is holding a parliamentary election.
It is the first parliamentary election in Israel since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas.
The election could determine Netanyahu’s political fate.
The election will give voters a chance to weigh the government’s handling of the attacks.
Zvika Klein, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, discussed the election with CBS News.
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Two men were jailed for causing the deaths of 27-year-old Justyna Hulboj and her four-year-old daughter, Lena Czepczor, in a Leeds crash in January 2023. At Leeds Crown Court, Hardeep Bhachu received 12 years in prison and Jasskamal Riyat received 16 years.
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Hulboj and her daughter were walking to the girl's nursery when an Audi hit them on 16 January 2023.
The crash happened on Scott Hall Road, where the speed limit was 40 mph.
Prosecutors said Riyat's BMW reached up to 89 mph before Bhachu lost control of his Audi and mounted the pavement.
Bhachu admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
A jury convicted Riyat after he denied racing Bhachu.
The judge said the pair's competitive driving put speed ahead of public safety.
Hulboj's fiancé told the court that the deaths had left him grieving and struggling to carry on.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won re-election with 51.7% of the vote, defeating far-right challenger Flavio Bolsonaro, who received 48.2%. Lula now faces a conservative-leaning Congress, economic and security concerns, and international tensions, including with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Lula defeated Flavio Bolsonaro in the October 25 runoff election.
Lula received 51.7% of the vote, while Bolsonaro received 48.2%.
The article says Lula is set to govern without a majority in Congress.
The Liberal Party, led by the Bolsonaro camp, won 121 of 513 lower-house seats and 28 of 81 Senate seats in earlier legislative elections.
Lula will need to work with centrist parties and the centre-right Centrao bloc to pursue his agenda.
Rising fuel prices and inflation have squeezed household budgets, while the government faces pressure over public spending and welfare programs.
Flavio Bolsonaro called for the runoff to be annulled, citing delays in decisions on requests to extend voting hours.
The article says Lula must also address public security and navigate international tensions with the United States and neighbouring countries.
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President Donald Trump praised Libyans as “proud, resilient” and deserving of peace and prosperity in a Truth Social post on Sunday. The post followed his description of Libya as “terror-infested” at a rally in Georgia; Trump also referred to U.S.-Libya cooperation against terrorism.
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Trump posted his praise of the Libyan people on Truth Social.
He called Libyans “proud, resilient, hospitable, and deserving of peace and prosperity.”
Trump had described Libya as “terror-infested” at a rally in Georgia.
Trump said the United States and Libya share a partnership in combating terrorism.
The article does not provide further details about the partnership or the rally.
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A London court gave singer Chris Brown an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, after he pleaded guilty to affray over a 2023 nightclub attack. His vocal coach, Omololu Akinlolu, also received a suspended sentence; both were ordered to pay costs.
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The attack happened at Tape nightclub in Mayfair on 19 February 2023.
The court heard Brown struck music producer Abraham “Abe” Diaw with a glass tequila bottle four times, hitting his head twice.
Diaw needed hospital treatment for his injuries.
Akinlolu received a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.
Brown and Akinlolu pleaded guilty to affray in July.
The court ordered each man to pay £1,500 in costs.
Brown will not go to prison unless he commits another offence during the 12-month suspension period.
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, said she learned in 2018 of allegations against her father, Thomas Markle Sr., and kept him apart from her children to protect them. A BBC report says a letter she sent him in December 2025 referred to abuse allegations; Markle denies possessing child sexual abuse material, and Philippine authorities are investigating him.
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Meghan said a letter outlining allegations against her father was shared with her in 2018 by London's Metropolitan Police.
Meghan said she and Prince Harry decided to prevent her father from contacting their children because of the allegations.
The BBC reported that Meghan wrote to her father in December 2025 and said authorities knew he had abused young girls.
Philippine police said they were investigating Thomas Markle Sr. over alleged possession of child sexual abuse images and videos.
Markle has denied possessing such material and said he would cooperate with authorities.
The Metropolitan Police said it was making internal inquiries about reports that officers passed a letter to Meghan in 2018.
The article says London police are not currently investigating Thomas Markle.
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A Ukrainian defense adviser disputed Elon Musk’s claim that Ukraine violated Starlink’s terms by using the satellite network for lethal drone attacks. Ukraine says restrictions on Starlink and Starshield have hindered military operations, but it remains unclear who ordered the limits.
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Musk said Ukraine violated Starlink’s terms of service by using the network for attacks and said SpaceX had closed a loophole earlier this month.
Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Starlink does not work over Russian soil and is limited to speeds as low as 70 kilometers per hour in Ukraine.
Ukraine said limits on Starshield access have affected strikes on Russian logistics, weapons depots and command centers, as well as air defense operations.
Ukrainian forces mainly use Starlink for communications and data transfers, according to the article.
Musk said Starlink is critical to Ukraine’s defense, while saying the U.S. government decides how Starshield is used.
It remains unclear who ordered the limits on Ukraine’s Starlink and Starshield access; Musk and U.S. officials have given different accounts of responsibility.
Three-way peace negotiations involving the United States, Ukraine and Russia are expected to restart next month.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with 140 drones and four missiles. Russia’s Voronezh regional governor reported more than 100 drones detected in the region, with two people killed and 17 injured after debris fell on a train and fires broke out.
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Serbia’s student-led movement declared victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election, ending 14 years of rule by Aleksandar Vucic’s party. Vucic conceded less than two hours after polls closed, and supporters celebrated in Belgrade.
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The election was held on Sunday.
A student-led movement claimed victory in the parliamentary election.
The result ended 14 years in power for Vucic’s right-wing populist party.
Vucic conceded defeat less than two hours after polls closed.
Supporters celebrated the result in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade.
The movement’s supporters blamed the government for deep-rooted corruption.
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Brazil’s electoral court declared President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the winner of Sunday’s presidential runoff, with 51.8% of the vote and a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes over Flávio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro rejected the result and called for the election to be annulled after polling hours were extended by two hours following requests from both candidates.
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The electoral court said all votes had been counted when it announced Lula’s victory.
Lula is set to begin a fourth, non-consecutive presidential term on Jan. 5, 2027.
Flávio Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, whom Lula defeated in 2022.
The Supreme Court justice overseeing the election ordered polls to remain open for two extra hours because of transportation problems and heavy rain.
The extension delayed vote counting, and it was unclear how many polling stations stayed open beyond the original closing time.
Lula said he would respect Brazilians regardless of gender or religion and emphasized Brazil’s sovereignty.
Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year prison sentence for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election, according to the article.
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