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Flavio Bolsonaro Edged Lula in Brazil's First Round, Sending a Tight Race to a 25 October Runoff

With more than 99 percent counted, the right-wing senator had just over 47 percent to the president's 45, a result that beat the final polls and sets up a three-week contest over Brazil's direction and its relationship with Washington.

Oct 5, 2026/3 min read

The National Congress building in Brasilia, where the Senate and Chamber of Deputies that Brazilians also voted for on Sunday sit, photographed in October 2009

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Latvia's Prime Minister Kulbergs Won Saturday's Election With About 35 Percent as a Pro-Russian Party Came Third

The centrist, pro-Ukraine United List topped the poll with most ballots counted, well ahead of the populist Latvia First, though it will need partners to govern.

Oct 4, 2026/2 min read

The Saeima, Latvia's parliament building, in Riga, photographed in February 2023 and not on election night

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About 400 French Lycées Were Shut on Friday as a Student Protest Over Class Sizes and Absent Teachers Turned Violent

Roughly 2,000 young people have been detained and more than 100 schools badly damaged in blockades that began over classes of 35 and missing teachers. The government blames the hard left.

Oct 2, 2026/2 min read

A lycee building in Paris, photographed in August 2023, illustrative of a French secondary school and not one of the schools closed or damaged in the protests

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Swiss President Guy Parmelin Will Leave the Federal Council at the End of 2026, Saying the Passion Has Faded

Switzerland's president and economics minister announced in Bern that he will step down on 31 December after eleven years in government, opening a contest to replace him that parliament will settle on 9 December.

Oct 2, 2026/2 min read

Official portrait of Guy Parmelin, photographed in December 2019

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An Israeli Strike Killed a Gaza Journalist as the Ceasefire's Death Toll Passed 1,400

Muhammad Abdel Aziz al-Najjar became the 263rd journalist killed since the war began, one of at least eight Palestinians killed in strikes on Gaza City and Khan Younis that Al Jazeera's correspondent said show the ceasefire's violence has not stopped.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip during the Gaza-Israel war, illustrative of the strikes described in this report rather than the specific attack that killed the journalist named

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The Supreme Court Let Third-Country Deportations Resume in a 6-3 Order, With Arguments Due in December

The conservative majority lifted a lower court requirement that migrants get a meaningful chance to raise fear of torture before being sent to a country other than their own, over a dissent warning the policy risks persecution and death.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

The Supreme Court Building in Washington DC, where the justices issued the 6-3 order on third-country deportations, photographed in July 2018

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US Forces Completed a 23-Year Presence in Iraq, Pulling the Last Troops From Erbil

The Pentagon said roughly 1,500 American and coalition troops left Erbil Airbase in an orderly departure, closing out Operation Inherent Resolve and a withdrawal deal first struck between Baghdad and the Biden administration in 2024.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

A view of Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region, home to the Erbil Airbase the last US and coalition troops left, photographed in March 2022

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A Ten-Minute X-Ray Flash Points to Colliding Neutron Stars Giving Birth to a Magnetar

Astronomers tracking an Einstein Probe flash say the longest prompt X-ray burst ever tied to a neutron star merger lasted nearly ten minutes, and that a newborn magnetar is the likeliest engine.

Sep 30, 2026/2 min read

The four 8.2-metre telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal in Chile, which took the follow-up observations, photographed in 2015

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Timnit Gebru, Jalila Haider and Two Women-Led Groups Win the 2026 Right Livelihood Award

The Stockholm-based prize honours the AI researcher, a Hazara human rights lawyer from Pakistan, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association and the Rural Women's Assembly of Southern Africa.

Sep 30, 2026/2 min read

Timnit Gebru, one of the 2026 Right Livelihood laureates, speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September 2018

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Spain Approves an Eviction Ban to 2030 and Rent Rollovers After an 87-Year-Old's Removal Sparked Mass Protests

The cabinet approved two decrees on Tuesday, including a ban on evictions until 2030 and automatic rental renewals, days after a wheelchair user was carried out of her Madrid flat. Congress must still ratify them.

Sep 30, 2026/2 min read

The Puerta del Sol in central Madrid, where protesters set up a camp of tents over the housing crisis, photographed in September 2026

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Iran's Araghchi Met Qatari Mediators in New York, Awaiting Washington's Answer on the Hormuz Plan

Days after Trump rejected Iran's seven day plan as unacceptable, its foreign minister discussed fresh ideas with Qatari go-betweens due to be relayed to the US, while an American official said any deal still hinges on Iran's nuclear programme.

Sep 29, 2026/2 min read

The Doha skyline in Qatar, illustrative of the government mediating the Hormuz talks and not the New York meeting itself, photographed in January 2020