Latin America

Flávio Bolsonaro leads President Lula 47.03% to 45.16% of valid votes, both short of 50%. He is a 58% favorite in the 25 October runoff.

Southern Command directed a 4 October Caribbean strike that killed four. It cited intelligence and offered no public drug evidence.

Al Jazeera records more than three dozen political prisoners released after a second round of U.S.-backed talks. Rights groups told The Korea Herald Saturday's tally is still not determined.

The record supports a sharper doctrine while leaving guarantees, equity, contingent exposure and cash outlays in separate unresolved columns.

Halt, ban, warn, count, withhold. Institutions can know enough to act while much remains unsettled.

Federal lawyers seek R$500 million in collective moral damages and product changes after a two-week TAC negotiation collapsed. The case puts age assurance, parental controls and moderation before a judge.

ByteDance Brasil faces a R$153,769,671.33 simple fine over children’s and adolescents’ data. The regulator also ordered a stripped-down logged-out experience: no ads, a 12-hour cap and blocked social functions.

USDA said it reopened the Douglas, Arizona port to cattle imports from Mexico on 24 August under a joint science-based protocol. Santa Teresa and Columbus remain closed. APHIS will pause openings if risk rises in Sonora or Chihuahua.

Unión Gremial, the Coordinadora and ANITRA restated a 24-hour apagado de motores in Lima and Callao for Tuesday 25 August after a Saturday meeting at Mininter that they did not attend. CONET and Transportes Unidos met President Keiko Fujimori and said they will not join. No Mininter communiqué on the session was retrieved.

ACP Advisory A-29-2026 drops bookable transits to 34 a day for reservation dates from 4 September, then 32 from 15 September. Watershed rainfall is 34 percent below the historical average. In May the Authority had said it did not forecast transit restrictions through the end of 2026.

A talud collapse at an informal open-pit gold mine in vereda Puerto Rico, Policarpa, Nariño, killed 13 people and injured seven. Rescue ended about 02:00 local on 20 August. Local disaster officials ruled out an explosion.

Los Pelambres lost roughly five days to weather and intermittent power, then returned gradually. Copper guidance fell even as stronger pricing and cost control pushed the earnings ledger the other way.

Brazil’s data authority ordered Discord to switch off Go Live and equivalent live-video features inside the country. The rest of the platform stays online; the tools return only after safeguards and prior clearance.

The presidency reports 181 dead, 2,595 injured and 195 missing while regional tallies continue to run ahead. Command is unified; the count is still catching up.

AAA’s Sergio Cuevas service area will cycle through two zones beginning 7 August, with each side alternating 48 hours of service and interruption. More than 180,000 customers in sectors of seven municipalities are covered, and no fixed end date is published.

National system interlinked west to east after successive collapses, yet available generation remains more than two gigawatts below peak demand.

Channelled pyroclastic currents down five ravines drove road closures and preventive evacuations around Volcán de Fuego.

Brazil’s DS646 filing opens consultations over separate 25% and 12.5% U.S. tariff actions. Only overlapping product schedules reach 37.5%, while the filing leaves current customs charges in force.

The proposal pairs a broad, retrospective eligibility ban with seven-year renewable terms. Two 60% votes stand between the draft and a constitutional candidate filter, and the FSLN already controls the chamber.

Keiko Fujimori became Peru’s first popularly elected woman president after winning by 49,641 votes. Her party enters the restored bicameral Congress as its largest minority.

The MV Barima’s manifest listed 133 people. Investigators later established that 179 were aboard, exposing an accounting failure that complicated the search while a commission examines why the ferry capsized.

Nicaragua’s legislature and electoral council are turning Daniel Ortega’s order into law. The project preserves voting while deciding which opponents may reach the ballot.

A new 25% levy reaches machinery, some wood products, ethanol and footwear while sparing beef, coffee, aircraft and other sensitive imports. The legal case stretches from payment rails to the forest edge.

Washington’s 25% levy meets a statute in reserve and R$13.3 billion in producer credit. Brasília is testing whether legal optionality and domestic cushioning can give a middle power room to bargain.

A semi-final celebration became a diplomatic irritant within hours. Britain demanded scrutiny, Argentina embraced the symbol, and FIFA’s public record remains a review of match reports.

Seven days after the magnitude-7.2 and 7.5 tremors, official counts put the confirmed dead in the high-1,700s, with some tallies near 1,943 and tens of thousands displaced. A magnitude-4.6 aftershock on 29 June sent residents back outdoors as foreign rescue teams worked collapse zones and aid reached weakened institutions.

Earthquakes measuring about 7.2 and 7.5 struck near Yaracuy on 24 June, the strongest pair in more than a century. Venezuelan officials say confirmed deaths keep rising past 1,450, with thousands injured and tens of thousands still unaccounted for, while foreign governments deploy rescue teams into a country already deep in economic collapse.