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An Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue, in a macro image taken in 2023. File photo.

Climate and health

Epidemic-level dengue now reaches 292 Brazilian microregions, and Fiocruz calls the spread irreversible

A portrait of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taken in February 2022, when he was a pre-candidate for the presidency. File photo.

Lula wins a fourth term with 51.79% of valid votes, and Flávio Bolsonaro says he will ask the courts to annul the run-off

The Palace of Nations in Geneva in October 2014. It is the UN's European headquarters, home to the Human Rights Council and the commissions of inquiry it creates.

UN commission says the ceasefire has not stopped genocidal acts in Gaza, and Israel denies it

Northern Tehran seen from the top of the Milad Tower in April 2019. The Iranian capital receives the three delegations on Monday.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey send their defence and intelligence chiefs to Tehran for security talks

The House of the National Assembly of Serbia in Belgrade, photographed in November 2023. Parliament has 250 seats, and 126 make a majority.

Student List wins Serbian election as Vučić concedes defeat after 14 years in power

The sign at Audi AG's corporate headquarters on Auto-Union-Straße in Ingolstadt, Germany, in April 2026.

Audi will build its first US plant in Georgia, a roughly $4 billion project for 4,500 jobs and 200,000 vehicles a year

The Swift spacecraft inside Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in July 2004, four months before launch.

NASA ends its Swift observatory after nearly 22 years and more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts

President Iliana Yotova hands Andrey Gyurov, then deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, the mandate to form a caretaker cabinet, in February 2026. The two now face each other in the presidential runoff.

Bulgaria heads to a presidential runoff on 1 November after turnout of barely 22%

The Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge over the Yalu River, linking Dandong, in China, to Sinuiju, in North Korea, seen from the Chinese side in 2011.

North Korea and China

Kim Jong Un walks across the new Yalu River bridge on his first trip to China in a year

Justice Cristiano Zanin at the ceremonial session marking his swearing-in to Brazil's Supreme Court, in Brasília, in August 2023.

Brazilian Supreme Court justice extends runoff voting to 7 p.m. nationwide, and the electoral court freezes the count at 0.25% of ballot boxes

The Casa Rosada, seat of Argentina's government, in Buenos Aires, in 2019.

Argentine judge throws out the $LIBRA case against Javier and Karina Milei, finding "no crime"

Exterior view of the CDC's Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia, the agency's headquarters.

CDC counts 4,588 measles cases in 2026, and 96% of the patients were unvaccinated or of unknown status

American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before a Brewers home game in September 2025.

Brewers erase a four-run first inning to beat the Rays 5-4 and take a 2-0 World Series lead

Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin, in October 2024.

Obama opens his midterm campaign in Cleveland and Detroit and calls Trump's White House "chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence"

The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran to the north and the Arabian Peninsula to the south, in a December 2020 image from NASA's Terra satellite.

Brent settles at $116.72, a six-month high, as Houthi attacks hit Saudi energy infrastructure

Plaça de Catalunya, in Barcelona, at night, in a file photograph from February 2024.

Barcelona reports 128 arrests and 14 injured officers after a night of looting in the city centre

The House of the National Assembly of Serbia, in Belgrade, in a 2023 photograph.

Serbia votes in snap election pitting Vučić against a list born of the student protests

Brazil elections

Brazil's presidential runoff begins at 8 a.m., with six governorships also at stake

A Lunds & Byerlys supermarket in Minnetonka, Minnesota, photographed in 2019.

Consumer sentiment

US consumer sentiment ends October at 48, its lowest since May, with year-ahead inflation expectations at 4.7%

The uncrewed Orion capsule photographed by its own solar array camera halfway to the Moon during the Artemis I mission, in November 2022.

NASA turns Artemis III into an Earth-orbit docking test with both Moon landers and keeps the landing in 2028