Brazil’s final polling stations closed at 7 p.m. local time Sunday, ending a two-hour Supreme Court extension and clearing the way for the vote count to resume in the presidential runoff.

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The official cutoff had been set for 5 P.M. local time but the Supreme Federal Court pushed it back two hours as the original deadline arrived. Under the decision, only precincts where balloting had not ended by 5 P.M. Brasilia time could keep receiving voters.

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The last polling stations in Brazil shut their doors at 7 P.M. Brasilia time on Sunday, marking the end of an extraordinary two-hour window that the Supreme Court had ordered only minutes before the original deadline.

Once the extended voting period concluded, election officials formally closed the polls and resumed the nationwide vote count.

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The Court’s notification arrived shortly after 5 P.M., when voting was already due to close. By that point, hundreds of polling stations had finished the day’s work, printed their ballot bulletins and even begun shipping equipment to the regional electoral courts.

The definitive shutdown shifted attention to the Superior Electoral Court, which prepared to restart the count. Officials had frozen it six minutes after it began, when only 0.25% of ballots had been processed.

With counting now underway once again, millions of Brazilians are awaiting the official results that will determine the country’s next President who will govern Brazil from 2027 to 2031. The outcome is expected to shape Brazil’s political direction, economic priorities, and international relations over the coming years.

For now, the process rests on the resumed tally. The coming hours will show whether the early lead holds as ballot bulletins arrive from across the South American country.

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“It is clear that we have lost these elections,” Aleksandar Vucic said in a surprisingly early speech congratulating his opponents.

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Vučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in election provoked by student-led protests

The long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that saw ​the increasingly authoritarian leader pitted against a student-led movement that had spent two years protesting against his government.

Vučić pointed to preliminary results that suggested voters had overwhelmingly backed the students, potentially giving them a majority in the country’s 250-seat parliament.

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Ashlynn Saenz has been stamping her name all over Pueblo Centrals record books.

This season, Ashlynn broke Central's school records for digs and serve receptions surpassing a player she once looked up to, Kai Arriaga. Arriaga set both records at 1,027 by the time she graduated in 2022. When Ashlynn rewrote history, Arriaga was there to congratulate her.

"I watched the girl that had the records in the first place, and I think she pushed me to do it. I was in awe that the child in me beat her," Ashlynn said.

Volleyball has always been a family affair for Ashlynn. Her grandpa played, and so did her mom and older sister. Growing up around the game, Ashlynn also had a front-row seat to some of Pueblo Central's best. Now, she's surpassed one of them.

For Ashlynn's dad and head coach, Danny, those records are only part of the player he's watched develop over four years. She arrived as a timid freshman, but by her sophomore year, her teammates had voted her captain.

"She is a tremendous competitor, but one thing that is overlooked, she has one of the biggest hearts on the team. She genuinely cares for every single one of her teammates," Danny said.

Now Ashlynn's name sits amongst the names of those that she once looked up to, but she is not hoping that her records last forever.

"It honestly means the world to me that I was able to get my name onto something and make a difference, but what I wanted to do the most is for the younger girls that watch me play like the younger sisters I want them to come and beat me that's what I want," Ashlynn said.

Ashlynn has also made two appearances at the state tournament in tennis. She's been playing since her freshman year, and with how quickly she has excelled in it, she's hoping she will be able to be a dual-sport athlete in college, playing both volleyball and tennis.

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Le Real a remporté son duel (2-1) face à son éternel rival le Barça ce dimanche 25 octobre au Camp Nou pour le compte de la 10e journée de Liga. Un doublé de Kylian Mbappé permet aux Merengues de revenir à trois points des Catalans au classement et de relancer le championnat.

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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday accused the state of California of being “guilty” of ballot harvesting, claiming the Golden State has “a system there that is ripe for abuse.” CBS News’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked about the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) legal battle with the state over potential noncitizens on their…

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Whoever controls Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation wields enormous influence over law enforcement, judges, and government officials. The EU wants Ukraine to reform it, and Ukraine’s government is likely to pass changes that satisfy monitoring requirements on paper while leaving the body effectively under the President’s Office’s control, the investigative outlet Texty reports.

The stakes are money and power at once. The State Bureau of Investigation, known by its Ukrainian initials DBR, investigates officials, judges, prosecutors, and soldiers. So choosing an independent director is one of the rule-of-law conditions the EU has tied to Ukraine’s 2026 and 2027 budget aid.

Yet the version the government may pass would change how the director is chosen only for the one after next, in 2032. Brussels wants the model used at the anti-corruption bureau NABU, where the chief cannot be confirmed without the votes of independent foreign experts.

Who picks the watchdog

Today a nine-member commission selects the director:

1. three named by the president
2. three by a parliament his party dominates
3. three proposed by the government on international partners’ suggestion.

That leaves the foreign experts without a decisive vote and the President’s Office effectively choosing the winner. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised in January that a reform bill would reach parliament within a month.

It is now October, and there is none.

Director Oleksii Sukhachov’s term ends this year, so his successor will be picked under the old rules.

Sukhachov has publicly argued that overhauling the bureau during the war would threaten the state.

The deadline to adopt the reform was October. To carry it out, the end of 2026. Miss it, and Ukraine risks reputational damage and the European funding it needs amid a budget deficit, money the EU has frozen before when anti-corruption guarantees slipped.

A factory of “procedural nightmaring”

What makes the fight so bitter is that the bureau’s searches, seizures, and summonses are levers over individuals and whole institutions.

For example, NABU’s Operation Midas tapes, from the $100 million kickback case at the state nuclear company Energoatom, mention the bureau’s entire leadership. In March 2025, its investigators searched the commission that vets and appoints Ukraine’s judges, itself reformed with international experts, in what the commission called pressure that could stall the courts.

Cases against the bureau’s own officials, meanwhile, are handled by a unit inside the bureau. And its director sits under his own cloud: the outlet Slidstvo.Info reported that his brother bought 143 apartments cheaply from a developer. Nevertheless, a court banned publication, and eight newsrooms jointly ran the story.

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Military

Ukraine strikes Russian plant supplying batteries for ballistic missiles and glide bombs with Storm Shadow missiles, OSINT reports – another hit on Russia’s weapons supply chain. The plant is reportedly Russia’s only producer of batteries for glide bomb guidance modules and a key supplier of specialized power sources for missile systems used in attacks on Ukraine.

Russian titanium plant in Urals reportedly hit by Ukrainian drones, 1,500 km from Ukraine. AVISMA, a major titanium producer in Russia’s Perm Krai, was reportedly hit by drones early on 25 October. The plant’s titanium alloys are used in military aircraft, engines, missiles, and space technology.

Ukrainian drones reportedly strike major shopping mall in Russia’s Belgorod overnight. Ukrainian forces reportedly struck the MegaGRINN shopping complex in Belgorod overnight, when it was closed.

Russian plant supplying components for Iskander missiles reportedly struck by Ukrainian Storm Shadow missiles. OSINT projects reported that a strike hit the Proton plant in Orel, a facility whose electronic components are used in several Russian weapons systems.

Drone strike sinks cargo ship near Romania, killing Ukrainian sailor. Romanian President blames Russia. The Khoryv capsized about 13 nautical miles off Romania’s coast, with nine crew members rescued and three still missing. The incident adds to a wave of attacks threatening Black Sea shipping and Ukraine’s export routes.

Denmark rushes 50,000 cannon rounds to Ukraine to help F-16s hunt Russia’s advanced jet drones. Ukrainian pilots are already using the 20-mm ammunition to intercept jet-powered attack drones, as Russia deploys faster targets that challenge Ukraine’s air defenses.

Ukraine wants partners’ Patriot interceptors now. Europe can hand them over only with US approval, Ukraine’s president says. Ukraine is contracting about 1,000 Patriot missiles that will take years to arrive, so it wants partners’ stocks today.

Intelligence and technology

Musk warns military use of Starlink could spark space war. Kyiv’s ex-disinformation chief says he’s building alibi after Starshield scandal. The warning lands weeks after his company throttled the Starshield service Ukraine’s drones rely on.

A modem from a Russian drone led reporters to its Chinese maker—which invoiced 500 for Russia’s drone plant. Posing as a Russian military supplier, journalists got a $2.87 million invoice, three bank accounts, and no pushback on military use.

Russia may stage sabotage in Eastern Europe, but wants Kyiv blamed, Ukraine’s Intelligence warns. The agency says Moscow aims to weaken European support for Kyiv by making Russian attacks appear to be the work of Ukraine’s military.

The money starts as bags of cash in a Moscow market and ends up clean in China, leaked files show. The firm, co-owned by the bank behind Russia’s defense industry, hides where the money starts before it reaches foreign banks.

The Starlink hot potato: Musk points to Trump, Trump points to nobody, then credits Musk with the fix. The speed limit stays. Ukraine’s military Starlink terminals still lose connection above about 160 km/h, nine days after the limit took effect, and Kyiv has no official explanation of who imposed it.

International

40,000 tons of Russian diesel are bound for New York—due four days after Americans vote. The tanker loaded at a Baltic port Ukrainian drones struck in March. Trump wants cheaper diesel before the midterms.

Russia’s attacks on Black Sea shipping raise risk of global famine, German FM warns. As Russian strikes increasingly threaten civilian vessels and Ukrainian grain exports, Germany’s foreign minister warned that shipping disruptions could leave vulnerable countries without essential food and fertilizers.

Austria expels Russian Embassy and OSCE diplomats over suspected spying. Vienna remains a Russian spy hub. Austrian security authorities raised suspicions of espionage involving four Russian diplomats, prompting Vienna to declare them persona non grata.

Russian Geran drone crashes in Moldova near homes and energy facility: Chisinau expels Russian diplomat. President Maia Sandu condemned the latest incursion as Russia’s war on Ukraine increasingly threatens neighboring Moldova.

Finland gives Ukraine 10 diesel locomotives that keep trains running when Russian strikes cut the power. The engines come free from Finland’s state railway, part of a visit that also brought winter energy money and new defense, housing, and satellite deals for Kyiv.

45 seconds of voting in the Lviv Oblast Council sparked a new dispute with Poland: Warsaw says Kyiv promised the UPA year decision will not take effect. Poland is Ukraine’s main hub for Western aid, and every new fight over the two nations’ WWII past erodes the trust that role rests on.

Humanitarian and social impact

Pope’s envoy becomes first foreign representative to gain access to Ukrainian POWs held by Russia since 2022. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Pope Leo XIV’s special envoy, was allowed to physically visit Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Russia during his recent visit, Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said.

Ceasefire planned for occupied Oleshky as residents face starvation and blocked escape routes, White House announces. A truce announced by Melania Trump is due to take effect October 29, opening the way for humanitarian supplies and evacuations if Russia and Ukraine implement the agreement.

Ukraine frees 270 from Russian captivity in “historic” prisoner swap, including 5 Olenivka survivors and American teacher Stephen Hubbard. The latest exchange returned 261 military personnel and nine civilians. Some had been held since 2018, while many others were captured during the defense of Mariupol in 2022.

Russia has kept the Red Cross away from Ukrainian POWs since 2024. Now about 1,500 captives it never confirmed as prisoners face prosecution. A captive soldier’s wife says that whenever families find a relative, Russia moves them to another prison and contact is lost again.

Political and legal developments

US midterms could restore Ukraine’s American aid and curb Trump’s Russia deals, if Democrats win Congress. Trump waives sanctions on Moscow that Congress wrote into law. Democrats could fight back after 3 November.

Putin claims Russia is ready for new talks with Ukraine, calls occupied land historical Russia. He also cited unnamed genetic studies to claim Russians and Ukrainians are one people, a day after hosting a US envoy.

Russia keeps hitting Ukraine’s arms plants. Now private developers can dig them space underground—and sell or rent it to them. The state budget has paid to keep war-damaged arms plants running. The new model brings private money into the digging.

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O voto é facultativo a partir dos 16 anos e obrigatório para os brasileiros de 18 a 70 anos. Mas um público bem mais jovem foi às seções eleitorais no segundo turno das eleições. São crianças levadas por mães, pais e responsáveis para ver como funciona a democracia na prática e na urna.

A publicitária Polyana Carla Alves Ázara e a internacionalista Luísa Malagoli levaram o filho e o cachorro da família ao Centro de Ensino Médio Paulo Freire, na Asa Norte, em Brasília. Todos testemunharam o momento de escolha do presidente que vai governar o Brasil de 2027 a 2030.

Notícias relacionadas:

• Eleitores de todas as idades vão às urnas pelo futuro do país.
• Eleitores vão cedo aos locais de votação no Rio, mesmo com chuva.
• Eleitores do DF acordam cedo para garantir voto no segundo turno.

Vinda de Goiânia há quatro anos, Polyana Carla votou pela primeira vez na capital federal. E ela quis que o filho fizesse parte desse momento.

“Ele participar disso é muito importante. Penso no futuro em que ele, um dia, poderá pensar ‘eu participei, eu estive neste momento de futuro para mim e para o Brasil’. Nosso filho faz parte dessa democracia, que tem que ser positiva para seu futuro.”

Polyana Carla defende que os governantes pensem em políticas que extrapolem o período de cada mandato.

“A gente tem que pensar no futuro das próximas gerações e não apenas no agora. O trabalho de qualquer governante tem que ser pensado a longo prazo.”

 

 A companheira dela, Luísa, diz que transmite ao filho o legado recebido dos pais dela e vê como necessário o fato de o filho compreender o dever do exercício do voto.

“Este é um dos momentos mais importantes da nossa vida como cidadão. Não podemos não atuar para o nosso futuro. Não adianta ficarmos só reclamando, se não fizermos por onde.”

Por isso, muito além dos dias de votação, Luísa Malagoli enfatiza a necessidade de o povo cobrar ações de governantes e de legisladores como vereadores, deputados distritais e estaduais em prol do bem comum.

Direitos das meninas e mulheres

Com o E-título no celular e uma filha em cada mão, a analista de departamento pessoal Elizabete Queiroz Gomes trouxe as suas filhas Emanuelle, de 10 anos, e Luna, de 9, para acompanhá-la na votação.

“É muito importante, desde cedo, a gente já ensinar os nossos filhos, os nossos irmãos mais novos, todos eles, sobre a importância de a gente ter o nosso direito de voto e saber como é que funciona todo o processo.

Logo após votar no Varjão, a 13 quilômetros do centro de Brasília, Elizabete declara que sua escolha é totalmente consciente por um futuro melhor para suas filhas.

“Eu sou uma mulher. E votar tem um peso enorme para nós que somos mulheres brasileiras, já que esta conquista não faz tanto tempo que a gente conseguiu.”

A referência dela é ao voto feminino no Brasil, instituído apenas em 1932.

Próximas gerações

Na mesma escola pública, Siomara Chao, de 59 anos, levou o neto Iyaz, de 4 anos, por patriotismo, mesmo que o menino ainda não entendesse bem as consequências das escolhas feitas na cabine de votação.

“Iyaz já canta o Hino Nacional na escola dele, que também ensina o patriotismo. O que acho superpositivo.”

 

Ao lado do marido, o mecânico Plínio de La Pena, de 72 anos, Siomara justifica que suas opções nas urnas foram por candidatos que possam garantir o futuro dos quatro filhos e dos 12 netos.

“Vir aqui, no domingo, é exercer a nossa cidadania. Fazer valer uma mudança, um progresso futuro para os nossos netos, para os nossos filhos. Algo melhor.”

Segurança 

Arcanjo Miguel Mota da Silva, de 7 anos, nem sabe ainda porque acompanhava o pai, Nilsemar Ferreira da Silva, no local de votação.

Mesmo assim, o pai acredita que seu o filho já é beneficiado pelo voto que digitou.

“É importante para ele começar a entender a respeito do que que se trata a política.”

“Quero um país melhor. Quero poder sair de casa sem medo de nada, ter segurança. E também priorizo a educação para as crianças.”

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Declarações após o jogo Nacional-SC Braga (1-0), da nona jornada da I Liga portuguesa de futebol, disputado hoje no Estádio da Madeira, no Funchal:

– Franclim Carvalho (treinador do SC Braga): “É uma estreia [no campeonato] amarga para mim e um jogo amargo para nós. Apresentámos uma cara diferente, que não é a nossa e que não pode ser a nossa. Esta camisola, este símbolo, requer muita responsabilidade e, acima de tudo, outra atitude, que nós não tivemos e que vamos ter de passar a ter.

Tivemos muita posse de bola, andámos muito perto da área do adversário, algo também consentido pelo adversário, obviamente, mas não fomos incisivos. Isso refletiu-se em dois ou três remates à baliza do adversário e zero golos, porque faltou exatamente isso. Faltou muito mais incisão e muito mais agressividade no último terço.

Temos de ter muito mais agressividade quando temos a bola, temos de ter muitos mais movimentos com bola, os jogadores que não têm a bola têm de ter outra mobilidade e temos de ser mais incisivos na frente”.

– Bruno Abreu (treinador do Nacional): Sentimento de dever cumprido, essencialmente pela felicidade de ter visto a atitude que os jogadores tiveram. […] Eu já tinha dito que havia muita vontade e que estava com boas sensações, fruto daquilo que via no microciclo semanal. Os jogadores tiveram uma atitude fantástica e acreditaram. Fico feliz por isso. O dever cumprido é pela conquista dos três pontos.

A equipa teve uma atitude fantástica, defendeu muito bem sem estar perto da baliza. Queríamos fechar bem os espaços e poder depois aproveitar algum deslize da equipa do Sporting de Braga. A nossa estratégia assentou nesse aspeto.

“Acho que o mais importante, sem descurar as questões táticas e de organização, tem a ver com a mentalidade e como encaramos o jogo. Independentemente de jogarmos da forma que perspetivamos, eu acho que o importante é a questão mental. E, no fundo, houve algum trabalho nesse sentido”.

O conteúdo “É uma estreia [no campeonato] amarga para mim e um jogo amargo para nós” aparece primeiro em O MINHO.

Trump, who imposed a travel ban targeting several predominantly Muslim countries during his first term, has increasingly leaned into anti-Muslim rhetoric as Election Day approaches.

O Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Rio de Janeiro (TRË-RJ) informou no início da noite deste domingo (25)  que todas as seções eleitorais deverão permanecer instaladas.

Nas seções eleitorais onde a votação não foi encerrada, poderão votar os eleitores que chegarem até o horário fixado na decisão do ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal, Cristiano Zanin, determinando que o pleito ocorra até as 19h. 

Notícias relacionadas:

• Zanin manda ampliar horário de votação até as 19h em todo o país.
• TSE: seções eleitorais ainda abertas devem manter votação até as 19h.
• Campanha de Lula denuncia falta de transporte em nove estados.

Nas seções cuja votação foi encerrada antes da prorrogação, caso cheguem eleitores das 17h às 19h, o mesário deve verificar se pertencem àquela seção e se já votaram, e registrar a comparecimento em ata.

O aviso foi assinado pelo presidente do TRE-RJ, Claudio de Mello Tavares, e pelo corregedor regional eleitoral, Fernando Cerqueira Chagas. 

 

Matéria atualizada com determinação do TRE para registrar em ata o comparecimento de eleitor em seções encerradas.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) dodged questions on whether he identifies as a MAGA-Republican and avoided clarifying his position on President Trump’s controversial tariffs against Canada ahead of his competitive race against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race.   During a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Rogers was asked if he considered himself…

The peaceful departure of Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić could open a positive new chapter in Western Balkans history, even as France drifts in the opposite direction.

Vučić acknowledged defeat shortly after 9.30PM on Sunday (25 October), when exit polls put his SNS party on 105 seats in parliament out of 250, behind the reformist Student List movement, led by cardiologist Ilija Srdanović, on 135 to 140, even though the final results were far from clear.

“Serbia is free! People, BRAVO!,” the Student List posted on X.

It had been a tense night in Belgrade, with a heavy police presence in front of government buildings, scuffles at polling stations, and with student and other citizens’ patrol groups monitoring voting, as well as over 300 formal international observers.

MEPs and US senators had also warned Vučić (who had once worked at the top levels of the brutal dictatorship of Slobodan Milošević) on X not to resort to violence to try to steal the vote.

But it seems that the landslide was so huge and the turnout so massive (over 69 percent) that there was nothing to be done.

And the popular eruption of joy seen afterward all over Serbia was also reminiscent of the fall of Viktor Orbán in elections in Hungary in April.

Serbian nationalism, Western Balkan corruption, and Russian interference will not disappear from the region overnight, but with the nationalist-populist Vučić gone there is more chance of normalisation of Kosovo relations and less risk of a Bosnia break up.

And there is every chance that a positive reform momentum, rewarded by the EU, could spread from Serbia into neighbouring states and help bring more Western Balkan countries into Europe, after Montenegro is due to join in 2027.

It is the fourth defeat in national elections for pro-Russian and/or far-right parties in Europe this year, after Hungary, but also Sweden and Latvia.

And that is a good trend for progressives, in the run-up to the election super-cycle of late 2026/2027, which will see similar battles unfold in Spain, France, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Slovakia, Poland, and Italy in the next 12 months.

“If we have peace, whatever the outcome, it will be beneficial and blessed. If we have unrest, anger, and hatred, whatever the outcome, it will be disastrous for everyone,” said Serb Orthodox Church patriarch Porfirije earlier on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the spectacle of a peaceful, democratic transition of power in Serbia will not be welcomed by Moscow’s authoritarian rulers.

But if it is an example to Russian people, then it is also a powerful, alternative model for any students, leftwing activists, or ethnic minorities in France, Italy, or further afield in Europe, who spent a second weekend rioting in multiple towns in protest at social inequality.

If the far-right was to take power in France in April, spurred on by racial tension and civil unrest, it would quickly wipe out any gains made on Sunday in Serbia, in terms of EU stability, Western Balkans’ enlargement prospects, and Russian influence in Europe.

But if young people in the EU want fairer societies, then the students of Serbia, who began today’s tectonic shift in small protests two years ago in the provincial town of Novi Sad, have shown them that the path to victory lies in non-violent resistance and patience.