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Oct 30, 2026 - World

Defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro this week left Brazil for the United States, following the steps of his father, Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, who spent several months in Florida after his 2022 election defeat, and his younger brother Eduardo, who moved to Texas in 2025, claiming he was politically persecuted at home.

Oct 30, 2026 - World

Pentagon officials are reportedly asking European leaders -- especially those from front-line countries like Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- to lower the volume on their rhetoric against Russia.

Oct 30, 2026 - World

Brazilian media ridicule defeated candidate over ‘shameful’ absconsion to US and bizarre letter with wrong coat of armsFlávio Bolsonaro had hoped that by Sunday night people would be calling him the next president of Brazil.Instead, the far-right politician’s decision to flee to the US after losing the election and – for 58 minutes – to declare himself “Brazil’s true president-elect”, has made him a laughing stock, with Brazilian newspapers and commentators raining a barrage of scornful adjectives down on the conquered candidate. Continue reading...

Oct 30, 2026 - World

Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey saysGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastAltering copyright law to allow AI companies to scrape music, books and journalism could trigger a constitutional breach, Coalition senators and the recording industry have warned, as they raise new fears it could open Australia to massive legal action and compensation claims from rights holders worldwide.The attorney general’s department admitted it was “extremely alive” to the issue, and Australia’s leading constitutional expert, Anne Twomey, agreed there was “potentially” a concern – depending how legislation was drafted – that granting AI companies permission to scrape copyrighted material from the internet could amount to an acquisition of property by the government. Continue reading...

Oct 30, 2026 - World

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he expects to conclude negotiations with the European Union in June on an unprecedented partnership that would make Canada the bloc’s first “associate member.”