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Brazil's President Lula, 80, is re-elected for a fourth term after going up against son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva clinched a fourth term in a tight runoff against the son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday. The leftist leader won 51.7 percent of the vote, compared to 48.2 percent for Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, official results showed. The 80-year-old Lula pulled off a dramatic turnaround after a shock second-place finish in the first round. Flavio Bolsonaro had finished first in the election's first round and hoped to revive his father's far-right movement and pardon him. The shock result defied polls, precedent and global anti-incumbent sentiment to put the brakes on a wave of right-wing election victories across Latin America. At times, Lula's reelection looked like a long shot, as voters soured on him and his Workers' Party after years of corruption scandals and rising prices, while sweeping societal changes left the former…

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Lula declared winner of Brazil’s election as Bolsonaro rejects results

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, was re-elected on Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening US influence in Latin America. With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil's electoral court announced that the soon-to-be 81-year-old Lula had a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes – 51.8% of the total vote – over opponent Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The announcement capped an evening of confusion at polling stations across Brazil, following a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours. Late on Sunday local time, Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat, calling the move to extend voting hours unprecedented – though both he and Lula made the request – and asked for the election results to be annulled, saying they were impossible to accept. Lula's triumph bucks a trend in Latin America where…

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In the news today: Tories target tanker ban, Ontario votes, OSAP fallout

Federal Conservatives pitch bill that would end B.C.'s tanker ban Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to repeal the oil tanker ban on British Columbia's northern coast months after Canada inked a deal not to change it. Poilievre was one of several Opposition MPs who signed a letter to Carney as a federal Tory bill to scrap the tanker ban goes for second reading this week. The group says the tanker ban "effectively donates" billions of dollars to the United States by forcing Canada to sell discounted oil profiting American refineries. The MPs point to a proposal by Calgary-based Strathcona Resources to ship up to 250,000 barrels of Canadian oil a day on existing railroad tracks through Prince Rupert, B.C., and across the Pacific Ocean. For the proposal to be considered, the tanker ban would have to be lifted, and the letter says the federal…

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Rapper Nikki Minaj joins Trump onstage at Michigan rally

Rapper Nikki Minaj said President Donald Trump has "changed the energy of the country" as she joined him at a Michigan rally to stump for Republicans ahead of the nationwide midterm elections. "He's given us a future to look forward to," she said, after Trump praised her figure and called her on stage to speak. Minaj has called herself Trump's "number one fan" despite criticising some of his policies in his first term. In Michigan, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is locked in a tight race with Republican Mike Rogers with just over a week to go before the midterms. Former President Barack Obama held a rally - one of the first in this cycle - with the Democrat on Saturday. Democrats are also aggressively hitting the campaign trail, with close elections taking place on 3 November which will decide which party controls Congress for the rest of Trump's presidency. In his remarks…

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