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Brazil Election Results 2026: Live Updates, Vote Count and Runoff Scenarios

Rio Times

Brazil Election Results 2026: Live Updates, Vote Count and Runoff Scenarios

Live results for Brazil's October 4, 2026 presidential election: Lula vs Flávio Bolsonaro vote counts, turnout, runoff scenarios and state races — updating in real time from 17:00 BRT. The post Brazil Election Results 2026: Live Updates…

Rio Times

LCDA’s food bank initiative not electoral inducement, says Lagos LG

The Punch

LCDA’s food bank initiative not electoral inducement, says Lagos LG

The Agboyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area of Lagos State has said its Adetola Food Bank initiative is not an electoral inducement but a sustained social welfare programme aimed at supporting vulnerable residents. The council stated…

The Punch

Trump faces down beef backlash. Will import plan pay off?

Trump faces down beef backlash. Will import plan pay off?

President Trump is pushing ahead with his plan to import foreign beef as a way to reduce prices for Americans, despite the backlash from cattle farmers and Republicans whose states would be most be most affected. In an apparent effort to…

America’s political maps are shifting. So is who can win

Straits Times

America’s political maps are shifting. So is who can win

Republican redistricting a blow to civil rights, raises racial tensions ahead of Nov 3 midterm elections.

Straits Times

Merz admits that German government lacks support

Merz admits that German government lacks support

Friedrich Merz also recalled that the previous German government had been "divided from within and run out of steam so quickly" that a change of power had become necessary

Sunday shows preview: Trump travels to Texas for RNC midterm convention; Administration downplays Iran war consequences

Sunday shows preview: Trump travels to Texas for RNC midterm convention; Administration downplays Iran war consequences

President Trump will head to the GOP’s convention in Dallas next week — an event aimed at galvanizing Republican voters to get out the vote ahead of the midterm elections this November. The president will headline the two-day convention…

300-plus homes stalled as SA Water battles 'severe constraints'

ABC News

300-plus homes stalled as SA Water battles 'severe constraints'

A major housing development in a fast-growing South Australian region has been put on hold due to what the housing minister has described as the state's "severely constrained" water system.

ABC News

Trump shakes up RNC midterm convention schedule, says he’ll speak on night one

Trump shakes up RNC midterm convention schedule, says he’ll speak on night one

President Trump is set to speak on Night 1 of the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) Midterm Convention in Dallas on Sept. 9. “The Greatest RALLY of them all,” Trump wrote in a Friday Truth Social post. “I’ll be speaking on night one…

Witkoff, Kushner conclude meeting with Putin, leave the Kremlin

Witkoff, Kushner conclude meeting with Putin, leave the Kremlin

The meeting was held in the Red Drawing Room

The dangerous mission undertaken by the mothers of Mexico's missing

The dangerous mission undertaken by the mothers of Mexico's missing

A group of Mexican mothers embark on a risky mission amid a violent internal war within one of the world's biggest cartels.

Thousands vanished in Mexico’s cartel war. These mothers refuse to stop searching for their children

Thousands vanished in Mexico’s cartel war. These mothers refuse to stop searching for their children

A group of Mexican mothers embark on a risky mission amid a violent internal war within one of the world's biggest cartels.

Texas Republican: ‘I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for Lindsay Clancy’

Texas Republican: ‘I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for Lindsay Clancy’

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) said he has no sympathy for Lindsay Clancy after her murder trial ended in a mistrial, rejecting the defense’s argument that severe mental illness left her not criminally responsible for killing her three…