Brazil

Lula won Brazil's run-off on Sunday with 51.79% to 48.21%. Flávio Bolsonaro rejects the result and says he will seek annulment.

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Brazil's real and stocks sank on Monday after Lula's re-election, which caught investors who had positioned for a Bolsonaro victory. Trading was briefly halted and equity sales worth $6bn were derailed, while analysts fear a fiscal slide in his final term.

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Lula won Brazil's run-off on Sunday with 51.79% against 48.21% for Flávio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro refused to concede and says his lawyers will seek annulment.

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Brazil votes on Sunday in a run-off between President Lula and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, with the final polls level. Nearly 159 million people are eligible to vote.

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Brazil votes on Sunday in a run-off between President Lula and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, with polls showing a near tie.

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Lula's campaign says he accepts Flávio Bolsonaro's conditions for a mutual release of financial records. The run-off is on Sunday.

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A Quaest poll puts Flávio Bolsonaro one point ahead of Lula, four days before Sunday's run-off. Both campaigns are turning to the electoral court to unseat the other.

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Lula offers to waive bank secrecy for himself and his family if Flávio Bolsonaro does the same before Sunday's run-off.

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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro traded barbs in their first face-to-face debate on Sunday, a week before the run-off. Reuters reports that polls show Bolsonaro's lead over Lula has narrowed.

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The first debate between the two candidates began on Sunday on Band, a week before the run-off on 25 October. Le Monde reports that Flávio Bolsonaro, if elected, intends to restrict the demarcation of new indigenous lands and encourage pesticide production and mining.

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President Lula's camp accuses Meta of electoral interference after restrictions hit content from his campaign on the company's social networks, Le Monde reports. The run-off against the far-right Flávio Bolsonaro is on 25 October, after Lula lost the first round to him, according to the Financial Times.

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A Datafolha poll puts Flávio Bolsonaro at 47% and Lula at 45%, and at 51% to 49% among valid votes, ahead of the run-off later this month. Lula now supports lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 16, a reversal that The Guardian says many see as a desperate electoral gambit.

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Brazil's Congress approved the end of the six-day workweek, a signature policy of President Lula, with the Senate vote coming on Wednesday night, according to the Financial Times and Folha de S.Paulo. Reuters reports that Bolsonaro is racking up endorsements ahead of the run-off.

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Lula's campaign announced complaints to electoral and regulatory authorities over alleged interference by Meta, which says the claims are unfounded, according to Politika. Flávio Bolsonaro finished first in the first round on 4 October, and Le Monde reports that a win in the runoff would give Bolsonaro a majority of Supreme Court judges on Bolsonaro's side, while The Hindu says Lula's government lowered fuel prices ahead of the vote.

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A Brazilian Supreme Court judge ordered the arrest of Eduardo Bolsonaro, who lives in the United States, weeks before the presidential runoff. A first poll puts Flávio Bolsonaro at 52% and Lula at 48%, which El País calls a technical tie.

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Far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro says he wants to reform the constitution to redemocratise Brazil, El País reports, and faces President Lula in the runoff later this month. On Wednesday, eight Democratic members of the US House demanded explanations from Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the revocation of an ambassador's diplomatic visa, Folha de S.Paulo reports.

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Flávio Bolsonaro won Sunday's first round with 47.03% to Lula's 45.16%. The runoff is on 25 October.

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Right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil's presidential election on Sunday with about 47% to President Lula's 45%. The two meet in a runoff on 25 October.

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Brazil's currency and stocks rose on Monday after Flávio Bolsonaro came out ahead of Lula in the first round of the election, Reuters and Nikkei Asia report. The Financial Times writes that investors see the right-winger as more likely than President Lula to enact quick spending cuts.

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Right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of President Lula on Sunday, about 47% to 45%. The two meet in a runoff on 25 October.

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Petrobras has detected indications of oil off the mouth of the Amazon, part of a megaproject contested for several years, Le Monde reports. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva backs the drilling, arguing that Brazil needs hydrocarbon revenue to finance its transition.

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A new poll puts President Lula ahead of Flávio Bolsonaro, but the gap has closed before Brazil's presidential election, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday. Bloomberg had reported the narrowing lead a day earlier.

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Brazil's justice ministry ordered Discord to halt live broadcasts on the platform after the suicide of a teenage girl, Le Monde reported on Wednesday. Alessandro Barreto, who coordinates the ministry's cybercrime unit, denounced what he called terrible moderation failures.

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Handelsblatt reports that deforestation in the Amazon has dropped to its lowest level in ten years. According to Bloomberg, the pressure has moved across the border into Bolivia, where forest loss is growing.

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The UN food price index rose in July to 131.1 points, its highest reading in more than three years, the FAO said on Friday. Heatwaves, the war in Ukraine and escalation in the Gulf lifted cereal, sugar and vegetable oil costs.

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A State Department official said on Tuesday that Washington had revoked the visa of Brazil's ambassador to the United States, months before Brazil's elections. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called the move irresponsible, according to Global Times.

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The State Department has cancelled the visa of Brazil's ambassador to the United States, in what the Guardian describes as retaliation for the Lula government's refusal to approve Donald Trump's nominee as ambassador in Brasília. An official indicated the revocation does not mean the ambassador will be expelled, Al Jazeera reported.

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Brazil's Workers' Party nominated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, for October's election at its convention, with Vice President Geraldo Alckmin again as running mate. Lula said on Sunday he was 'in great shape' and cast the race against Flávio Bolsonaro as a fight for national sovereignty against foreign interests, pointing to the Bolsonaro family's ties to US President Donald Trump.

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At the World AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro everything revolves around aid money that is failing to arrive, above all from the Trump administration, the FAZ reported on Saturday. New infection numbers are rising even though the virus could be kept in check, according to the paper.

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Brazil's government requested consultations with the World Trade Organization over the new tariffs Washington imposed on Brazilian goods, Breitbart reported. India was spared the harshest of the US 'forced labour' tariff action while a broader trade deal remains unresolved, and Trump said he is unwilling to extend the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement he signed in 2018, according to TASS.

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Brazil recalled its ambassador to Buenos Aires for consultations after Argentine President Javier Milei made fresh verbal attacks on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and a Brazilian judge, according to Reuters, Bloomberg and Daily Sabah. Le Monde reported that Brasília also summoned Argentina's ambassador, and that Milei's remarks targeted Mexico and the US Democratic Party as well.

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Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, was set to be confirmed on Saturday as the Liberal Party's presidential candidate, Daily Sabah reports. Separately, Brazilian authorities refused visas to two senior US officials out of concern they planned to sow doubt about the security of the country's electronic voting systems, according to the New York Times.

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Washington imposed new duties of 10% to 12.5% on more than 60 economies at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, 24 July 2026, the moment its previous universal 10% tariff expired. The White House based the measures on Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and on allegations that the targeted countries fail to enforce bans on goods made with forced labour. Trading partners from the EU to China, Brazil and Australia objected, and US small businesses filed suit the same day.

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Brazil signed on to the artificial intelligence alliance launched last week by China with 29 founding countries, the Shanghai-based World AI Cooperation Organization, Folha de S.Paulo reports. The move comes as Brazil's Congress postpones its own domestic legal framework for artificial intelligence.

Technology

Indigenous leaders on the Brazilian-Peruvian border told the Guardian that masked gunmen from an organised crime group have entered homes and are taking their communities hostage. A delegation was sent to Brasília in response; the accounts are based on local leaders' statements and are not independently confirmed.

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President Lula aims to turn the port of Pecem in Brazil's Nordeste into a large green hydrogen export hub, according to Le Monde. The region already produces abundant renewable energy.

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