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BRASILIA, BRAZIL – Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began the evening with a modest lead of 8% as the results began to trickle in, yet over the course of the night, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, slowly and steadily cut into that lead. At 8 p.m., with 70% reporting, Lula took a slight lead over Bolsonaro, eventually …

The leaders of nine NATO nations from Central and Eastern Europe issued a joint statement on Sunday in support of Ukraine’s path to membership in the alliance.  “We firmly stand behind the 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit decision concerning Ukraine’s future membership,” the presidents of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Czechia, Romania, North Macedonia, and Slovakia said on Sunday.  At that …

NATO’s top official has stressed that the organization believes a major German oil and gas pipeline suffered damage as a result of sabotage, and any attack on NATO infrastructure will be met with a “firm” and “unified” response.  “All evidence points again that this is sabotage deliberately done by someone against these pipelines,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said during an …

At least 129 people were killed and around 180 injured at a soccer match in Indonesia after a crowd stampede during a riot, police said on Sunday, in what appears to be one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. After the match in East Java province between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended on Saturday night, supporters from the losing …

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Saturday urged Moscow to consider deploying low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine after Russian forces retreated from the city of Lyman. In a post shared on Telegram, Kadyrov said he believes “more drastic measures should be taken, right up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons.” …

Cuba’s government has made a rare request for emergency assistance from the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden after Hurricane Ian knocked out power to the whole island of 11 million people, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. CUBA STRUCK BY HURRICANE IAN, LEAVES 1 MILLION RESIDENTS WITHOUT POWER AND STREETS FLOODED Hurricane Ian tore through the island nation …

Ukraine’s nuclear power provider on Saturday accused Russian forces of kidnapping the head of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) and holding him in an undisclosed location. According to Energoatom, the power station’s director-general, Ihor Murashov, was stopped by Russian forces around 4 p.m. Friday while in his car before he was then blindfolded and detained.  His whereabouts remain unknown.  …

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Ukraine’s armed forces on Saturday said they had “liberated” five settlements in the Donetsk region and encircled thousands of Russian soldiers near the eastern town of Lyman. “The Russian troops in the area of Lyman are encircled. Yampil, Novoselivka, Shandryholove, Drobysheve, and Stavky settlements are liberated. Stabilization measures are being conducted there,” Serhii Cherevatyi, Speaker of the Eastern group of troops, …

Elina Konavalyuk and her family had a relaxed if not indifferent attitude towards Russia before all this.  Some family members had even felt a bit nostalgic for the USSR over the years.  But no more. Not after living under attack by Russian soldiers who occupied the Kherson region of Ukraine early in the war, sleeping months, frightened, in a basement and …