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🇧🇷 Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gave his first public address since losing Sunday’s election. He didn’t explicitly concede or recognize his opponent as the winner, but vowed to “comply” with Brazil’s constitution. Bolsonaro’s chief of staff said he privately has authorized the start of a peaceful transition of power. After former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday’s presidential runoff by a 50.9% to 49.1% margin, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters took to the streets and blockaded over 300 highways in protest of the result.
🇮🇱 Early exit polls in Israel project that ex-PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc will win a majority after yesterday’s election. The polls, conducted by local media, aren’t official results and could change as votes are actually counted. But if they hold, Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc would have 61 or 62 seats in the 120-member Knesset (Israel’s parliament), allowing them to form a government – though such a narrow margin could lead to a future collapse, as in recent years. Voter turnout was 71.3%, the highest since 2015.
🇷🇺 Russia continues to attack civilian areas in Ukraine with missiles and drone strikes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian airstrikes have "seriously damaged" ~40% of his country’s entire energy infrastructure. Late last month, Ukraine’s state-run energy utility said it had suffered more attacks since Russia began its current escalation on October 10 than in the previous eight months of the war.
🌎 Israel's fifth election in four years takes place today, visitors to Shanghai Disney Resort are now trapped inside until testing negative for Covid, & the longest passenger train in history traveled through the Swiss Alps this weekend.
🌎 Russia is indefinitely suspending an UN-brokered deal ensuring safe passage of Ukrainian grain exports, at least 153 people were killed in a stampede at a Halloween parade in South Korea, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will become Brazil's next president after defeating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.
🌎 Evidence in a 'bombshell’ Mexican gov't report about 43 missing students was recently invalidated, the European Central Bank raised interest rates by 0.75% to combat inflation, and Russia said it could target US commercial satellites if they're used to help Ukraine.
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