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  • A street vendor sells campaign flags of presidential candidates Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro and current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who is running for reelection in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

    Today in Focus
    The Bolsonaros…they’re back! Brazil heads to the polls – podcast

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  • Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the first plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a multilateral lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House July 9, 2025 in Washington, DC.

    Brazil attorney general says meddling ‘cannot be tolerated’ after Trump funding plans revealed

  • An older man in a hat sitting on wooden porch of a farm house.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Water yes, mining no!’: the 87-year-old farmer who became a nature hero in Colombia

  • An image of Venezuela’s former president Hugo Chávez in Mario Silva’s home studio in La Guaira

    ‘It’s utter surrealism’: Venezuela’s Chavistas lament government’s embrace of Trump

  • Afrikaner refugees hold small American flags on arrival, a woman carrying a toddler in yellow

    Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

  • Flavio BolsonaroOpposition presidential candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro campaigns in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Sales)

    The Guardian view on Lula v the Bolsonaros: the decision of Brazilian voters will affect us all

  • After he was taken to a dog sanctuary by elderly owners, Comando was recruited by the national guard for community outreach and search and rescue operations

    Comando the chihuahua adopted by the Mexican national guard – video

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  • With the incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, running neck-and-neck with Fl��vio Bolsonaro, the son of the imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, the Guardian's Tom Phillips explains the tactics being used by the Trump administration and what impact another Bolsonaro government could have on the region, and the world

    How Trump is meddling in Brazil's election – explainer

    Video3:43

  • ‘So much uncertainty’: Michigan’s Arab American businesses navigate Trump’s Canada trade war

  • ‘We’re afraid of dying’: Brazilian news site will not cover upcoming elections after threats

  • Aerial view of illegal mining deforestation, a rust-colored clearing amid Peru's Tambopata rainforest

    How gold surpassed cocaine as Peru’s most profitable criminal industry

    As gold prices surge, illegal mining has laid waste to swathes of Tambopata National Reserve’s rainforest
  • John Oliver: “Yet again, Brazil finds itself having to choose between Lula and a guy named Bolsonaro for president.”

    John Oliver recap
    John Oliver on Brazil’s Flávio Bolsonaro: ‘Fearmongering and flagrant daddy issues’

    The Last Week Tonight host digs into Brazil’s election, with current leader Lula faces a disgraced former president’s son
  • Mighty Sparrow - calypso singer

    Mighty Sparrow, the Trinidad and Tobago singer known as the ‘calypso king of the world’, dies aged 91

    Slinger Francisco, who performed as the Mighty Sparrow, died on Sunday surrounded by family in New York
  • US Hawaii Extreme Weather NoloFire Captain Lui Sales of the Hawaii Fire Department looks for residents to help as rainwater from nearby Hurricane Nolo flood a section of Mamalahoa highway Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, near Naalehu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

    Hurricane Nolo still threatens Hawaii as Mexico’s Baja braces for Hurricane Polo

    Hurricane Nolo moving away from Hawaiian islands but the threat of heavy rain, flash floods and strong winds persists

    • Formerly enslaved people in Guyana embraced collective action

    • ‘Viscerally dedicated to social issues’: behind Lula’s drive to win final term in Brazil’s crunch election

    • Melbourne man’s mysterious disappearance on popular Peru hiking trail prompts widespread search

  • Girl in pink sweatshirt and shoes dumps dirt from a big mound into sandbag held open by person in black sweatshirt under cloudy skies.

    Hawaii braces for powerful winds and flash flooding with Hurricane Nolo

    Preparation begins for extreme conditions as Nolo bears down on areas still recovering from previous storms
  • Marines and sailors board a fishing vessel from a small boat during a maritime interdiction at sea

    US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering

    Attorney says fishers ‘losing their livelihoods’, but Marco Rubio maintains US still willing to ‘blow up ships if need be’
  • Molly London in Piscataquis County, Maine

    ‘It’s just getting worse’: anger in Maine over Trump’s trade war with close neighbor Canada

    President’s tariffs have hurt fishers, loggers and others in a state with deep bonds to Canada – will Mainers show their displeasure in the midterms?
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