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Four days until Brazil decides between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro. The first round was 47 to 45.
Final call: who takes it Sunday?
0%Flávio Bolsonaro
0%Lula
0 votes • 22 hours🇮🇩 ON THE GROUND: Indonesia is deploying more than 9,000 security officers in Jakarta as protesters take to the streets to mark two years of Prabowo Subianto in power, with demonstrations planned around the presidential palace and parliament on the anniversary of his inauguration.
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🇦🇱 ON THE GROUND: Burnt-out kiosks and graffiti calling for revolution in central Tirana after a week of riots.
The “Flamingo” protests against a Kushner-linked resort in a protected wetland have grown into a wider movement demanding PM Edi Rama resign.
📹 Virginia López
🇺🇸 ON THE GROUND: New York’s council votes Thursday on ending Central Park’s horse carriages by 2028, four months after an 18-year-old tourist died when a horse bolted.
Christina Hansen, a driver for 20 years, says the bill offers job fairs to people and nothing real to horses.
The loudest voices for an independent Alberta lived outside Alberta. Elon Musk said the province “should separate” and the US Treasury Secretary called it Washington’s “natural partner.”
Albertans voted last night, and with more than a million ballots counted, 77 percent chose to stay in Canada.
Mark Carney, who grew up in Alberta, had already handed Smith the thing Trudeau never would: a new pipeline to ship bitumen overseas.
He called the result a much-needed win in the middle of a trade war with the United States and wrote that Albertans “chose unity, to build together, and to take care of each other.”
Trump’s approval just hit 31%, the lowest of either term, with fuel prices doing the damage. The midterms are November 3.
Who wins the midterms?
64%Democrats sweep
36%Republicans hold
14 votes • 7 hours🇨🇺 ON THE GROUND: Cuba’s grid has collapsed at least six times this year and Havana spends most of the day dark.
Linda Soriano of Impulso Teatro stages Strindberg by candlelight in Vedado and says when the script needed a smoke machine, the actors stood outside blowing vape clouds.
Macron went on television on Sunday to say that those who destroyed will pay, promised meetings this week and conceded nothing. His prime minister blames the far left, Mélenchon blames the government, and JD Vance posted the burning town hall and blamed immigration. The election to replace Macron is six months away.
