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Polls close in Brazil as Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro remain neck and neck

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Polls have closed in Brazil's general election, after voters queued in long lines for a tight first round of the presidential race.

After casting his ballot, 80-year-old left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned that the choice was between democracy and "barbarism".

His challenger, right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, said he wanted to "free the Brazilian people".

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FBI arrests woman accused of surveilling Taiwanese president's son for China

The FBI arrested a suspected Chinese agent at Los Angeles International Airport after she allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's U.S.-based son, law enforcement sources told CBS News. Wanying "Heather" Zhang, an Irvine, California, realtor, was cuffed by federal law enforcement on Sunday before she boarded a flight to Shanghai, China, from LAX, on a charge of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Zhang's husband Edric Ding, a realtor at the same firm, told CBS News when reached by phone Sunday: "I don't know anything yet," and declined to comment further.

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U.S. Air Force removes all bombers from British air base targeted in a suspected terror plot

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has brought home all of its bombers stationed at RAF Fairford, a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran, following an investigation into a planned terrorist attack at the base . A Defense Department official told NBC News that all bombers that had been deployed to the base “have been re-deployed to their home stations in the United States.”