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AmericasBrazil's presidential election has delivered a shock: right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the 45-year-old son of imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro and an ally of US President Donald Trump, won the first round of the 2026 presidential election on Sunday, finishing ahead of leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and forcing a runoff on October
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AmericasRepublican Mark Lamb faces sexual misconduct and racist-remark allegations in Arizona's 5th Congressional District as Latter-day Saint women voters turn away from his candidacy ahead of the November 2026 election.
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AmericasThe Machu Picchu fire, which broke out on Friday near the main access road to the ancient citadel in Peru’s Sacred Valley, has killed one person and injured two, emergency officials say. The blaze began in the Yanahuara sector of Urubamba province in the Cusco region on October 2 and burned for more than 36
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AmericasCornell University president Michael Kotlikoff has vowed full transparency amid growing outrage over the fraternity rape case, as Governor Kathy Hochul appointed a special prosecutor.
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AmericasMexico is using AI-assisted mammogram analysis to detect breast cancer earlier — cutting long waits and stretching scarce specialist capacity in a country where an estimated 85% of cases are diagnosed late.
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AmericasAttorney Thomas Giuffra says the woman accusing seven men of raping her at a Cornell fraternity in 2024 is "under siege" online. Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor and vowed to close a loophole in New York's rape laws.
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AmericasChrista Pike is unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator in a Nashville-area hospital two days after Tennessee's failed execution attempt, her attorneys said in a Friday court filing. Hospital staff are working to save her life and clear the administered pentobarbital from her system.
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AmericasThe US added just 29,000 jobs in September as unemployment rose to 4.2%, in the last jobs report before the midterms. Democrats, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, call President Trump's economic agenda a failure.
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AmericasBrazil's final TV Globo presidential debate was cancelled after Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro both withdrew, while police ruled out a bomb threat at the Supreme Court in Brasília — three days before Sunday's first-round vote.
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AmericasTennessee's attempt to execute Christa Pike — the only woman on the state's death row — failed Wednesday night after two doses of pentobarbital did not stop her heart. She was taken to a hospital, and Governor Bill Lee paused the rest of 2026's executions.
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AmericasRenee Good's family filed two federal lawsuits Thursday over the ICE agent's fatal shooting of the 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis, naming officer Jonathan Ross, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem and Tom Homan.
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AmericasTennessee's attempt to execute Christa Pike — the only woman on the state's death row and the first woman set to be executed there in over 200 years — failed Wednesday night after two doses of pentobarbital did not stop her heart. She was taken to a nearby hospital.
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