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Defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived in the US, hours after Brazil cancelled his passports, sources have told the BBC. The right-wing candidate left the country after its Supreme Court ordered that he surrender his passports amid an investigation into alleged money laundering. Bolsonaro has not been charged and has denied the allegations. His passports were cancelled on Tuesday …

Israelis are heading to the polls for what many view as one of the most pivotal elections in the country’s history. Polling published on Friday suggests incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu is in a near neck-and-neck race with former military chief Gadi Eisenkot to become prime minister. But neither of their political blocs are projected to win the 61 seats needed to …

Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared in his election victory speech “Brazil will not accept being anyone’s backyard,” a message squarely aimed at Washington. Domestic elections are rarely won on foreign policy, and this one was no different. But Lula’s defiance against what he has described as US interference in Brazilian affairs evoked a patriotic spirit that …

Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday that the outcome of the Israeli elections, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a tight race, will make “no difference”. “It makes no difference to us who, in these elections, takes the helm of a regime that has brought nothing but violence and massacres to our region,” said ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei in …

Serbia’s long-standing leader Aleksandar Vučić has admitted defeat to a student-led protest movement in snap parliamentary elections. Celebrations erupted as crowds descended on the centre of Belgrade, Novi Sad and other cities. The student movement was formed less than two years ago in response to a railway station disaster blamed on corruption and negligence, but fought the election with candidates …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former FBI officials were charged Friday with lying to Congress about their involvement in investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, the latest in a series of splashy and politically charged actions the Justice Department has undertaken ahead of next month’s midterm contests. Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, former leaders of …

Israel began demolishing buildings and forcing residents to evacuate a neighborhood in the occupied West Bank on Friday, hours after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint, killing two soldiers. Three more soldiers were lightly wounded in the attack in the city of Hebron, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The attack came just four days …

Thousands of people are currently marching in the city of Orléans, south of Paris, on Saturday as Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party is holding a political convention. Demonstrators were seen carrying a banner that read, “All united against fascism. For the popular rally and social progress,” as they made their way through the city’s streets, according to The …

Any campaign that involves Donald Trump is bound to get pretty ugly. The 2024 campaign was marred by the now-president and now-Vice President JD Vance falsely claiming Haitian migrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets. But the 2026 campaign is getting really ugly — especially on the Republican side. Morality aside, the question is whether that ugliness is a sign …

  Federal prosecutors used the name matching her ex-husband’s in a motion tied to the immigration fraud investigation Rep. Ilhan Omar told Fox News Digital that her “real name” is “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar” after a federal court filing identified the congresswoman by a last name matching that of her ex-husband, whom reports have alleged is her brother. “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, …