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The joint session of the Congresso Nacional that enacted the end of the 6x1 shift pattern, in Brasília, on 16 October 2026, with Davi Alcolumbre, Hugo Motta, President Lula and lawmakers Paulo Paim and Carlos Veras at the table.

Video: Brazil's Congress enacts the end of the six-day work week, with a 40-hour cap arriving in 14 months

An aerial view of the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in an image released by the Salvadoran presidency in 2023.

Regional security

Costa Rica and El Salvador agree to cooperate against transnational crime after Fernández tours the Cecot

A child with the classic fourth-day measles rash, in an undated photograph from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

US measles cases reach 4,410 this year, nearly double the total for all of 2025

A Copernicus Marine Service visualization of sea surface temperature anomalies on August 25, 2026, with the band of warmer water in red stretching along the central and eastern equatorial Pacific.

NASA satellites are tracking an El Niño that NOAA gives an 83% chance of becoming the strongest since 1950

The campanile of Limoges city hall, in France, photographed in May 2019. The 43-metre tower collapsed on the night of 17 October 2026 during the fire set in the building.

France sees 550,000 protest over the cost of living, about 400 arrests and Limoges city hall gutted by fire

The Strait of Hormuz seen by NASA's Terra satellite in December 2020: Iran to the north, the Musandam Peninsula to the south, and a 34-km channel at its narrowest point.

Strait of Hormuz

Iran says a tanker carrying 2 million barrels caught fire after striking a mine in Hormuz, and declares the strait closed

Chiaki Ishii, the first Olympic medallist in Brazilian judo, in a photograph released by the Brazilian Judo Confederation.

Chiaki Ishii, the first Olympic medallist in Brazilian judo, dies at 85

Brazil Elections 2026

Brazil's electoral court unanimously upholds order barring Meta from throttling candidates' posts, under a R$ 500,000 daily fine

Guillermo del Toro, one of two filmmakers honoured with the Filmoteca UNAM medal in Morelia, at the Saturn Awards in March 2026.

Morelia film festival opens its 24th edition with 96 titles and UNAM medals for Del Toro and Cuarón

The US Department of the Treasury headquarters in Washington, in a 2015 photograph. OFAC, which issues general licences, is part of the department.

US Treasury extends Venezuela earthquake-relief licence to April 2027

The Federal Aviation Administration's headquarters on Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Air traffic control

The FAA is negotiating an ownership stake in the startup whose AI now advises its air traffic controllers

The Nasdaq Tower in Times Square, New York, in May 2026.

The Nasdaq closes its worst week since June as investors start pricing the debt behind AI

Donald Trump in his official White House portrait, photographed in June 2026.

Russia sanctions

Trump's order sets a 500% tariff on Russian goods and waives it in the same document

RCD Espanyol's stadium in Cornellà de Llobregat, where Spain and Egypt drew in March 2026, pictured in 2023.

Discrimination in football

FIFA fines Spain's federation US$20,000 over Islamophobic chants and orders 15% of the stadium closed

A colourised electron micrograph of an Ebola virus particle, produced at the laboratories of the CDC, the United States public health agency.

Kenya confirms a third Ebola case, a 65-year-old woman who had been in quarantine since 6 October

Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media at the Vatican on 12 May 2025.

Hospitalised after lung surgery, Leo XIV phones Putin to ask for a truce to reach Oleshky

The facade of the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília in April 2020. The office at stake in the 25 October runoff sits inside the building.

Lula backs lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 16 for heinous crimes as Flávio Bolsonaro calls his father's conviction a "sham"

A child leaves the Cidade Estrutural landfill in Brazil's Federal District in February 2008. The archive photo illustrates the subject of the survey.

Household survey

Child labour in Brazil falls 9.2% to 1.499 million, the lowest level in the IBGE series

Plaza Murillo in La Paz, with the government palace and, behind it, the Casa Grande del Pueblo building, in 2022.

Chile and Bolivia

Chile and Bolivia agree to work toward restoring diplomatic relations in first state visit by a Chilean president in 71 years

Demolition of the White House East Wing in Washington on October 22, 2025. The ballroom is being built on the cleared site.

Apple and Nvidia each gave $25 million to Trump's White House ballroom, on a donor list that adds up to $333 million