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Brazil’s neck-and-neck election offers test for growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc

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Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup ‘No one disrespects Our Lady’: fears for Brazil’s patron saint grip country ahead of election Shortly after his controversial speech to the United Nations general assembly in September, Donald Trump gathered a dozen like-minded Latin American leaders and boasted that rightwing candidates had won all seven presidential elections held in the region since he began his second term. “Everybody I’ve endorsed has won,” the US president said…

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Russia strikes second major bridge in Kyiv, mayor says

A Russian strike has hit a second major bridge in Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said, as Russia ramps up attacks on critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital. The attack on Saturday morning damaged the road surface and trolleybus overhead wires on the Northern Bridge, Klitschko said, causing traffic to be blocked. The strike comes after another key bridge in the city, Southern Bridge, was targeted multiple times by Russian drones on Thursday and Friday, with Klitschko earlier warning that such attacks were "tearing Kyiv apart" .

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10 injured after car crashes into crowd of rugby fans in Australia; driver arrested

Two people, a 5-year-old girl and a 67-year-old man, were in critical condition. Ten people were injured, including two critically, in Australia on Saturday after a car crashed into a crowd of rugby fans lining the streets to send off their team, in what officials called a "horrific" incident. It happened about 9:30 a.m. Saturday local time in Newcastle, about 100 miles north of Sydney, as crowds of thousands of people were lining the street to see off the Newcastle Knights' rugby team, which was headed to Sydney for the grand final later Saturday, officials said.