Morning Brief: Lula wins Brazil as Bolsonaro demands annulment; Gulf powers meet Iran in Tehran; Israel votes Tuesday
Plus an intelligence warning on Iranian plots against Americans, Trump heads to Mississippi, and the Supreme Court's November calendar.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 6 AM World Brief for Monday, October 26. Lula wins Brazil's runoff, 51.79% to 48.21%. Bolsonaro calls for annulment over a two-hour voting extension. Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish officials meet Iran in Tehran. Intel memo: Iranian plots against Americans at "advanced stages." Israel votes Tuesday: Eisenkot's party leads Likud; neither bloc near 61 seats. Trump: Oval Office policy meetings, then remarks in Corinth, Mississippi, at 6 p.m. CT. Supreme Court arguments resume Nov. 2. Baltimore deportation-agreement request still pending. Our opinion. Last-minute voting changes erode trust, and a regime plotting against Americans hasn't earned a soft deal. Full stories and sources at worldbriefnow.com
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro with 51.79% of the vote to 48.21%, a margin of about 4.4 million votes, the BBC reported, after Bolsonaro had led the first round on Oct. 4. Bolsonaro called for the result to be annulled over an "unacceptable" two-hour voting extension granted by Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin, even though both campaigns had asked for more voting time, Al Jazeera reported; experts told BBC Brasil annulment is unlikely. Donald Trump Jr. criticized the extension, saying the press would "lose their minds" if a right-leaning government had done it.
Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistani army chief Gen. Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin are meeting Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday to try to head off renewed war, CBS News reported, as President Trump weighs whether to "finish it off" or make a deal. A memo from Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran has "substantially increased" efforts to target U.S. personnel abroad, with plots reaching "advanced stages," Fox News reported. Brent crude sat around $115 a barrel early Monday, CBS said.
The final round of Israeli surveys shows Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud, with neither of the two major blocs reaching the 61 seats needed to form a government, The Jerusalem Post reported. The average gap between the blocs stands at 4.5 seats, the paper said.
A trilateral meeting between Kyiv, Washington and Moscow will take place in November to restart stalled Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, The Guardian reported. Zelenskyy said Ukraine will not discuss limits on its armed forces or enforced neutrality, and that territorial issues must be handled "at a leadership level."
President Trump has three closed policy meetings in the Oval Office Monday and meets with the U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco, then flies to Corinth, Mississippi, to deliver remarks at Crossroads Arena at 6 p.m. CT, according to the White House's daily guidance released Sunday night.
At Sunday's Port Huron rally, President Trump questioned the loyalty of Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and portrayed him as a national security threat; El-Sayed denies any ties to extremist groups, and Arab Americans for Trump founder Bishara Bahbah called the remarks "racist," Fox News reported. The race against Republican Mike Rogers could help decide Senate control. A federal appeals court is weighing the administration's bid to set aside up to 20,000 California mail ballots, and the Justice Department is defending its Alaska certification lawsuit, Fox reported.
The justices' November sitting opens Monday, Nov. 2, with Maxwell v. Dinis and Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, followed Nov. 3 by St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, the Colorado pre-K case, according to the Court's argument calendar. City of Baltimore v. Texas (26A500), an emergency application to pause an agreement between Texas and the Justice Department that prevents enforcement of a Biden-era rule allowing immigration judges to suspend certain deportation proceedings, remains pending after Baltimore's Oct. 23 reply, SCOTUSblog's docket shows. The Court's last posted orders were on Oct. 21.
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