Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has disappeared from public view after losing Sunday's presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. On Tuesday, October 27, Brazilian Federal Police sources told Reuters that Flávio had missed a Supreme Court deadline to surrender his passports and that the documents had been cancelled. Authorities were trying to establish his whereabouts.Argentina said it had no record of his entry, while people close to the Bolsonaro family were unable or unwilling to clarify where he was. A senior Brazilian Federal Police official said he had not left through a regular migration checkpoint. His departure from Brazil, let alone his arrival in the United States, has not been confirmed.
Trump’s deal with Putin is opening an American market to Russian fuel just as international investigators document the human cost of Russia’s attacks on Ukraine. The arrangement has triggered bipartisan opposition in Washington, raised questions about federal law and exposed the conflict between domestic fuel prices and national security.Three tankers carrying approximately 140,000 tonnes of Russian diesel are heading toward American ports under a temporary sanctions exemption negotiated by President Donald Trump’s administration. According to the Financial Times, the vessels are expected to arrive in November, shortly after the November 3 midterm elections. One of them, the Leruo, is sanctioned by the United Kingdom, the European Union and Canada. The shipments are among the first to move toward the United States under Trump’s October 9 arrangement with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
They organized through assemblies, rejected the traditional political hierarchy, and won a parliamentary majority. Now Serbia faces an experiment whose consequences could extend far beyond its borders: can ordinary citizens build a democracy that does not surrender its power to a new political elite?
Trump invokes 9/11 to attack Abdul El-Sayed, but the Michigan Senate candidate is talking about groceries, gas prices and health care — the bills Americans must pay every day.
On Sunday, Donald Trump offered no evidence whatsoever establishing that Abdul El-Sayed was a terrorist or had ties to extremist violence, yet brought the memory of September 11, 2001, into Michigan’s Senate race, using the terrorist attacks to launch a personal assault on the Democratic candidate. At a rally in Port Huron, Trump called El-Sayed a “jihadist,” accused him of being a Muslim Brotherhood member, and invoked Todd Beamer, one of the passengers who fought back against the hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93. Trump warned that electing El-Sayed would put a threat inside the US Capitol.
A new gene-editing trial could change how inherited diseases are treated — but the first patient’s results are still unknownImagine discovering that a disease is caused by a tiny mistake in your body's genetic instructions. Instead of treating the consequences for the rest of your life, doctors might one day be able to correct the mistake itself.
That possibility has moved a step closer to reality.
There has long been talk of “hunter” satellites and an intensifying confrontation in space between Russia and the United States. But this week brought an unprecedented escalation in the new “star wars.”
On October 18, a Russian inspector satellite came closer than ever to a spacecraft operated by the Finnish-American company ICEYE. The company openly helps Ukraine, giving its armed forces access to satellite images of Russian military facilities, including airfields, naval ports, and oil refineries. Here’s what we know about the exceptionally close encounter, how Moscow is describing it, and why independent experts are alarmed.
Is Texas Turning Blue? Trump carried Texas by nearly 14 points in 2024. Now, Democrats are challenging Republicans in statewide races as voters confront rising costs, a controversial war and the consequences of tariff policy.
For more than a century, Texas was predominantly Democratic territory in presidential elections. From 1872 through 1976, the state voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in all but four elections: 1928, when Republican Herbert Hoover defeated Al Smith; 1952 and 1956, when Dwight D. Eisenhower carried Texas; and 1972, when Richard Nixon won the state in a national landslide. Jimmy Carter reclaimed Texas for the Democrats in 1976. Then the political map changed.
Sri Lanka's foreign ministry says it has coordinated efforts to treat and repatriate 40 Iranian sailors suffering from unspecified medical emergencies in international waters off the island's southeastern coast.Ministry spokesperson Thushara Rodrigo told BBC Sinhala they received a distress call on Saturday from Iranian ships "regarding an urgent medical need". The rescue operation was planned by the Iranian Embassy in Colombo, he said.
BELGRADE, Serbia — The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, conceded defeat Sunday in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.By Charlie WarzelThursday October 22, 2026On Tuesday, the world found out about two massive security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that is used by roughly 70 percent of websites. The flaw was discovered by cybersecurity researchers using a frontier model from OpenAI. If they exploited it, attackers could gain full control of servers, stealing or copying anything inside or simply taking sites offline.
Brazilians have delivered a historic result with consequences far beyond their borders. For everyone who believes democracy must serve ordinary people—not billionaires, oligarchs and political dynasties—the victory offers a reason to hope, and a reminder of how much remains at stake
On November 10, 1942, after the Allied victory at El Alamein, Winston Churchill offered a memorable warning against confusing a turning point with a final victory: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Brazil’s election brings that historic phrase to mind. History has a way of repeating its lessons, challenging us to learn from our mistakes and to cherish our victories with prudence rather than pride. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has defeated Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, in a remarkable comeback. Lula won approximately 51.75% of the valid vote against his opponent’s 48.25%, securing a fourth, nonconsecutive presidential term. The result is a Brazilian election victory—but its significance reaches far beyond Brazil.
Του Χρήστου Αβραμίδη,25 Οκτωβρίου 2026,Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες / ΕλλάδαΔιεθνείς σχέσεις / Πολιτική
Η Kimberly Guilfoyle, πρέσβειρα του Donald Trump στην Ελλάδα, παραιτήθηκε. Η αποχαιρετιστήρια δήλωσή της ρίχνει άπλετο φως σε μια ευρύτερη ιστορία: πώς οι Αμερικανοί εξαγωγείς και το ελληνικό κεφάλαιο συμπράττουν, ώστε τα νοικοκυριά να επωμίζονται το κόστος της νέας ενεργειακής τάξης.
«Μπορούμε να το κάνουμε αυτό σε όποια χώρα θέλουμε. Μπορούμε να το κάνουμε κι εδώ». Kimberly Guilfoyle
Brazil's presidential election tightened dramatically on Sunday as incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva overtook right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the race to lead Latin America's largest democracy. A provisional results graphic published by DW showed Lula with 50.72% of the vote against Bolsonaro's 49.28%, with 69.51% of ballots processed. The narrow margin put Lula ahead, but the count was still underway and no final winner had been declared. Reuters also reported Lula's resurgence as votes from the country's northeast, a traditional stronghold of his Workers' Party, entered the count.
