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Eleições intercalares dos EUA explicadas – capítulo 7: quem vencerá e como reagirá o Presidente?

Os EUA vão ter eleições de meio de mandato a 3 de novembro de 2026. Em que consiste uma eleição intercalar, qual a importância desse processo, o que poderá acontecer? Esta série de artigos procura explicar as eleições intercalares a um público não americano

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Eleições intercalares dos EUA explicadas – capítulo 7: quem vencerá e como reagirá o Presidente?

Os EUA vão ter eleições de meio de mandato a 3 de novembro de 2026. Em que consiste uma eleição intercalar, qual a importância desse processo, o que poderá acontecer? Esta série de artigos procura explicar as eleições intercalares a um público não americano

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Eleições intercalares dos EUA explicadas – capítulo 7: quem vencerá e como reagirá o Presidente?

Os EUA vão ter eleições de meio de mandato a 3 de novembro de 2026. Em que consiste uma eleição intercalar, qual a importância desse processo, o que poderá acontecer? Esta série de artigos procura explicar as eleições intercalares a um público não americano

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Gulf states must rethink trillion-dollar defence in light of US-Iran war, says report

IISS study questions overreliance on American support and ‘overdependence on expensive, high-end systems’

Gulf states are going to have to reconfigure their trillion-dollar defences given the damage inflicted on their economies and the questionable continued value of US bases in the face of Iranian attack, according to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

The report says that in the weeks before the 8 April ceasefire, 12 regional states, overwhelmingly in the Gulf, faced 4,670 Iranian one-way attack drones and more than 1,400 ballistic missiles. Nearly half were aimed at the United Arab Emirates. Although the vast majority were repelled, one estimate of the damage to energy infrastructure cited by the report is put as high as $58bn (£43bn).

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© Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

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Houthis sending Taiz ‘back to the stone age’, governor of besieged Yemen city says

Oxygen, food and water supplies running low and massacres taking place, says Nabil Shamsan

The Houthis are trying to send the city of Taiz back to the stone age, the city’s governor said in a briefing designed to urge the international community to do more to lift the month-long siege.

Nabil Shamsan said massacres were taking place in Yemen’s third city, that oxygen and water supplies were running out and that rubbish was piling up in the streets due to landfill sites being either full or inaccessible.

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© Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

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